justsaya:
headcanonsandmore:
Opinions on the Royal Wedding that just happened.
As a Brit; I can tell you that;
1- The royal wedding was given virtually no publicity until the day. Heck, I didn’t even know it had happened until the television news that evening.
2- The wedding cost the tax-payer three million pounds, despite the royal family being one of the wealthiest groups of people on the planet.
3- The other main news about the wedding was that homeless people were literally getting cleared off the street beforehand, no doubt because people were worried they’d spoil the view. After all, why get rid of the causes of homelessness (austerity, poverty, impossibly expensive house and rental prices, and a cutting of front-line services) when you can get just clear away the reminders of homelessness when the world’s television cameras show up?
How messed up is that?
@headcanonsandmore can you explain better the “the second point″ please? i mean three million pounds…is a lot or is it cheap for their standards? i mean “tax-payer” mean “people’s money” or what?(this one is a problem bc english is not my main language, i’m sorry)(i also could be the wealthiest woman on the planet if i could have access to the “anybody who isn’t me”’s money)
@justsaya That’s actually quite cheap for royal weddings, because both parties involved aren’t high-up in the line of succession. By contrast, William and Catherine’s wedding (in 2012) cost roughly £32 million (which was mainly security costs), whilst Harry and Megan’s wedding cost roughly £44 million (due to inflation). As the royals in the recent wedding weren’t likely to inherit the throne, the security cost was far lower.
Yeah, “tax-payers money” means the money of the general public. Usually, the public end up paying for the security costs. Of course, we don’t get a say in it; the government decide to spend it on the weddings.
@delannscape I suppose it’s about the same as ever, although noticeably dropping amongst younger people. Younger people (especially in their twenties) tend to be less supportive of the royal family nowadays, given the high costs of keeping the monarchy despite ordinary people having their public services and wages slashed (the royals saw their wealth increase in recent years, whilst ordinary people saw their savings and living standards fall to the worst levels in over two generations).