OldFrill
Allira
OldFrill
GrannyGravy13
The sovereign grant costs U.K. taxpayers £1.29 per person.
What else can you get for £1.29, a loaf in Aldi’s a couple of tins of beans…
£1.29 each totals £86.3 million and surely would be better spent on those who live below the breadline rather than those rolling in dough.
So you suggest having no Head of State at all?
No expense whatsoever.
If people think a Presidential system with elections would be cheaper, they might be mistaken.
eg spectator.com/article/macrons-lavish-spending-is-jeopardising-french-finances/
Cost of 2024 General Election UK: approximately £94 million.
I'm not being baited to de-rail the thread further as I don't think my views on Head of State are relevant to this thread.
I object to people using the £1.29 as an argument for subsidising these extremely wealthy parasites. They make enough from the Duchies, their extensive but dubious investment portfolios, trust arrangements and incredibly favourable inheritance and other tax allowances that l see no need to give them anything more.
I'm not baiting
I just don't understand why anyone, President or Monarch, should use any of their own money to pay for the job they do as Head of State.
Either we have a Head of State and pay for it or we don't, which is not something which is usual. Perhaps Switzerland is the only one I can think of off-hand as they have a Council. Whether it is less expensive than a Head of State I do not know.