don't renovate, reclaimate!
turn that palace into affordable housing!
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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Abolish the monarchy
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.
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.
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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.
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Just want to point out that refurbishing is often just modifying stuff to his liking instead of routine maintenance.
Outrageous!
Maybe it does pay back in tourism? Either way let's have the social housing as well.
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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.
down with the monarchy
If it’s paid for by public money the people should be able to sleepover whenever they want
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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.
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