don’t renovate, reclaimate!
turn that palace into affordable housing!
Friendly reminder that you guys had social housing figured out until you voted Thatcher into office.
Fuck Thatcher and everyone who idolises her. That woman fucked us all over. If there is a hell, she’s in it.
Abolish the monarchy
Every royal should be chained to a boulder and cast into the Sea. No exceptions. Being a royal is a crime against humanity. Abdication or the drink, those should be their choices. Crowns should roll unclaimed in the gutter.
https://mhclgmedia.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/01/budget-boost-for-housing-local-growth-and-remediation/
…the Government will invest £5 billion in housing in 2025-26, an increase of £1 billion on the previous year, which includes £500 million additional funding for the Affordable Homes Programme and an additional £50 million to turbocharge planning reform
Framing the costs against how much gets spent in a year on X doesn’t really work if the renovation isn’t happening every year, which I’m going out on a limb and saying it isn’t.
He could pay for it himself of course, but to all those saying to get rid of the monarchy - who pays for the renovation then…? It’s a landmark heritage building, it needs upkeep.
I’d happily pay for the upkeep if I got to go inside and see it. If it was maybe a museum or an art gallery open to the public. As it is I’m paying upkeep on the multiple sprawling estates owned by the wealthiest people in the country, so that they can enjoy privacy in huge palaces, while I get one tiny box with a broken boiler.
On top of that you’re actively paying the wages and costs of guards that do funny dances twice a day but will shoot you in the face if you try and go into the property you’re paying for. You pay for it, but it belongs to some toff. Give your head a wobble lad.Well get you wallet ready then!
Those guards who do funny dances are the oldest serving unit in the British army. They have always participated in active duty in addition to the ceremonies, so paying for them shouldn’t be thought about any differently to the rest of the armed forces we (under) pay for.
I’m not against scaling back the monarchy, but the idea that your tiny box and broken boiler is going to be any different by doing so is misguided.
You’re barking up the wrong tree there. I give zero fucks about military tradition, except to find it sinister and unnecessary. I’m well aware of the guards having other duties. Wouldn’t it be better if they didn’t have to do the silly dances in their silly hats and nutcracker uniforms. Then they could maybe do something worthwhile and effective with their time.
At no point did I say that ridding ourselves (not “scaling back”) of these particular leeches would solve my housing situation or even the housing crisis at large. I was pointing out the hypocrisy of it. A point which you failed to address, for some reason.If we only do things that are worthwhile and effective, the world would be an utterly dull place. You’re happy to use the palace as an art gallery, when the traditional guards and uniforms are performing a similar function now.
There is a perfectly acceptable scenario where we don’t have a royal family, but keep the guards. There would be no hypocrisy there.
I said I’m happy to scale back the costs because of some of the reasons you have said, but I’m not going to demand an end to the whole circus because the costs involved just aren’t as significant as you may want to believe, especially when looked at as part of the annual £1.3t budget.
But they’re doing those ineffective and worthless things in the course of guarding against public entrance to a privately owned building that the public pay for. Do you still refuse to see the hypocrisy and injustice there?
I’d happily pay for the upkeep
Let me stop you right there
Would you just demolish the palaces then? They’re beautiful buildings. They just need to belong to the public.
They currently belong to the Crown Estates. It is argued that this is the same as public ownership, but that smells like bullshit.
It smells like bullshit and looks like bullshit, has passed seventeen double blind trials for the detection of bullshit, and has been stepped in by a connoisseur of cowpats who consequently confirmed its credibility.
Pointing out that you personally can’t afford it…
Oh ok, I didn’t see that meaning. I mean I can’t personally afford an army and health service for the entire nation, but I’m still paying for it!
The crown has property and investments that pay out all the time (for example a lot of rental properties).
They also get a cheeky 500m allowance a year. Presumably plus expenses.
I suspect if these all were divided up between the national trust (looks after things like parks and historical sites) and the government, they’d be able to manage it themselves.
It was built in the early to mid 1800s, how much renovation could it need? Sheesh. Slap some makeup on it, bit of the ole duct tape and she’s good as new. I can only imagine how much of a pain it has to be to have gone back and ran electricity, network cables, heating/cooling and stuff in buildings made to last that long that didn’t have designs for them. I’d almost say to just make it all smaller inside by framing and putting up sheet rock inside, and then running everything between the external walls and the sheet rock would be easier.
Just want to point out that refurbishing is often just modifying stuff to his liking instead of routine maintenance.
Outrageous!
Get rid of the royals. Fuck them. They are a burden on society and the system.
Btw, has anybody verified those numbers though? It’s a twitter post after all and they could be claiming anything without proof.
The TL:DR; is that yes he could pay for it but it is also exceedingly complicated. Fuck the monarchy.
Speaking as a Canadian who’s also living under the crown, it’s complicated, exceedingly expensive and not really worth the work. In the context of Canada, it would require renegotiating an exceptional amount of treaties and the like, opening the door for provinces to start requesting changes to benefit themselves. Things get even more complicated with Québec involved.
I can only imagine the UK having magnitudes more history than us, it would be even more expensive and even more complicated.
With that said, maybe we can just write a law that ditches the current royalty and replaces them with something like an inanimate carbon rod?
Don’t they technically own like, most of the land in the UK? I’m sure that could be changed but it’s not going to be easy right?
It’s hard to argue that a group of kneeling, headless corpses own anything.
Maybe it does pay back in tourism? Either way let’s have the social housing as well.
Tourism pays even without the royals. Just look at Versailles.
How much does a guillotine cost again?
Buck o’ five.
In which case the taxpayer would still be paying to renovate Buckingham Palace. What’s he going to do, sell it? Let us keep our pet family.
You are the pets.
That would imply they feed me, etc.
No.
oh right well in that case just clean up after yourselves
No, it’s one or the other!
If it’s paid for by public money the people should be able to sleepover whenever they want
Maybe if you made more of an effort with inviting Charles to your place for once he might invite you to his parties?
down with the monarchy
The French had a good way of dealing with this.
This IS social housing. Man’s got no job, have a little empathy.
Publicly funded housing for the unemployed… True!
Is the main argument for royalty still tourism?
Yes but the renovations are just a front to case his joint so they can rob him blind next time he goes on holiday.
Wishful thinking. I like it. I hope the next time he falls is during the last erection of his life. He’s taken two Viagra and the turtle came out of its shell. He’s rubbing a stick of butter on his member, balls swinging pendulous below. He didn’t know it, but from his autopsy we learned he had the longest ballsack on record, with a full six inches of pubic hair attached.
So he’s rubbing the butter on his penis and he falls over. And straight up breaks his dick IN-HALF.
What the hell man I just woke up
Well don’t downvote my perfect prose just because you weren’t ready for it!
I don’t think I’ll ever be ready for that
Your nose, ears, and, if you’re a man, your ballsack all continue growing throughout your life. He’s so old he has to put them over his leg when he shits so they don’t go in the water. Or maybe, since he’s a king, he just shits on his balls and has his groom of the stool clean them up.
Please stop I’m just trying to enjoy my weekend man
I apologize. My attempts at humor are not for everyone. I hope you have a great weekend!
Here’s a nice thing- scientists exploring a remote part of northern Argentina discovered 27 new species. One of them is a dwarf squirrel that is only 5.5 inches long!
UK population can’t even figure that this parasite got to go lol
Think of that revenue that it brings UK🤡
It is a class war and UK pedon is losing extra hard.
But sure Muslim immigrants or poles are the problem mate;)
Did you write pedon the other day somewhere? I don’t know what it means.
Prole, peasant, pleb.
It was prolly me I have not seen others use this term on fedi. It’s an old timer type word.
I see, thank you for explaining.
Yes, heritage buildings are expensive.
Something revelatory here?
the royals can pay for their own shit.
Not to m knowledge. Old buildings brighten up the city and pull in tourists. Much better than the umpteenth glass willy standing up. Royalty UK-style is like that( nice for historical reasons , looks great and pulls in the tourists), but it might be nice to turn it into a 9 to 5 job and have the actors live in state-supplied, much cheaper villas. Heating alone would probably save millions each year.
I hear Versailles is ok for tourists.
