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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 19:16:29 JST Aral Balkan

   “According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”

   https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/5/with-charles-iii-coronation-colonialism-is-coming-home-to-roost

   #monarchy #uk #inequality #letThemEatCake

   • Cybarbie (nf3xn@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 19:53:45 JST Cybarbie

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     • Dick Morrell ✔️.

     @aral

     I've seen that figure a couple of times now but am mystified as to where it comes from and what they are spending it on.

     Having seen the bills from the Met to police the opening of a bloody envelope I would not be surprised.

     #Corruption

     Anecdotally, the poll rings true also; only yesterday @Cloudguy was bemoaning the lack of bunting in Tetbury (though not sure if that is genuine disaffection or because it is Badders weekend and it is like a ghost town).

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 19:53:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Cybarbie
     • Dick Morrell ✔️.

     @nf3xn @Cloudguy This article quotes “A Home Office representative”: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/king-charles-iiis-coronation-expected-cost-taxpayers-around-250m-1715507

   • Reay Jespersen (reay@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 22:53:11 JST Reay Jespersen

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     @aral Can you imagine how much more popular he would be, how much more relevant and contemporary, if he’d simply asked how much all this would cost and then instead had a simple ceremony and instructed that exact amount of money be given directly to these people who need and deserve it?

     You want people under 50 to care about the monarchy? Show people under 50 that the monarchy cares about them.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 22:53:54 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Reay Jespersen

     @reay Alas, this is not the way of kings.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 22:54:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • MusicTraveler

     @musictraveler Who’s the clever boy? *pat, pat*

   • MusicTraveler (musictraveler@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 22:54:59 JST MusicTraveler

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     @aral
     🤦🏻♀️ That tax money issue is just a cheap mood making statement

     It seems the return of investment for the British taxpayers is extreem high 🤷🏻♀️

     Probably the British will start to cry when they vote away the Monarchy 🙂

     https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/economic-importance-of-the-british-monarchy/article65880024.ece/amp/

     #LoveDemocracy #HateAnarchy #Monarchy

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 06:01:42 JST Aral Balkan

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     • MarjorieR
     • Mark62

     @marjolica @Mark62 Wow. Just wow. I have no words.

   • Mark62 (mark62@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 06:01:43 JST Mark62

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     @aral we need to see the cost breakdown, the military would be paid marching or sat in baracks, same with the crown household, many of the police would be on duty anyway, what was the EXTRA cost

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • MarjorieR (marjolica@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 06:01:43 JST MarjorieR

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     • Mark62

     @Mark62 @aral coronation street parties were paid for by raiding food banks:
     ".. our local food bank supported about 760 people last week out of a population of about 10,000 in the local area. In recent years, the food bank has used grants from the national lottery to support its activities, but recent applications for funding have been unsuccessful. They have been told that much of the funding is going to events celebrating the coronation."
     Source on this page:
     https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/05/coronation-extravaganza-sits-badly-in-todays-britain

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 06:05:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Rimi B. Chatterjee

     @rimibchatterjee 👑
     💩

   • Rimi B. Chatterjee (rimibchatterjee@mastodon.green)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 06:05:17 JST Rimi B. Chatterjee

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     @aral Charles the Turd indeed.