Social security benefits should be universal. Royal allowances should stop immediately. Monarchy should end immediately.
One cant be democratic if the head of state is unelected and nobility still has influence!
I don’t know much about how Belgian royalty behaves, but I argue it would be fair not to end this tradition until they fuck up. Royal allowances and costs of ceremonies etc aren’t that high if you consider the diplomatic weight royalties have in foreign countries, even more so in foreign monarchies.
if you consider the diplomatic weight royalties have in foreign countries
They shouldnt have any diplomatic weight. They should be stripped of anything that separates them from normal citizens.
But they do though. I’m not saying it’s fair, just that we better use it since we pay for it.
Yeah you wanna read a little about the shit that the Belgian royal family has caused. Or just about all royal families, for that matter…
If they cause shit than I’d say there is an actual reason to kick them out, as I said I don’t know anything about Belgian royals. What I think is that the financial argument is weak, especially compared to the moral argument on whether it’s fair or not. I think it’d be better this ‘tradation’ dies slowly.
Also, I think this guy wanting extra money is a douchebag move. Feel like I need to stress that with all these downvotes.
I really don’t care for that excuse.
They are a buch of parasites and there’s no need to give them our money.
Yes, we need an elected head of state so we can elect an orange alt right dictator with unchecked power
Monarchists being absurd to defend a deplorable family that’s actively shielding a (alleged) pedophile sex trafficker.
Idgaf if the Windsors continue to exist as a bloodline, but they shouldn’t hold significant if unexercised powers, shouldn’t play any role or advocacy in politics, and shouldn’t be whinging about not having enough money to fund their property and land portfolio.
Can’t pay the bills? Oh no, I guess the public/National Trust can take ownership and maintain those building like all the other stately homes that went into administration decades ago.
The Brits are one of the biggest monarchist bootlickers.
And this for a horrible German family.
Call these fascist parasites Saxen-Gotha, not whatever they opportunistically changed their name to bcs it was 1914.Republicans being absurd to suggest we should elect 10x more deplorable people who are sex traffickers into their office.
Also, the Windsor’s will profit from their land and property instead of having to give the vast majority of that revenue to the government, as it currently stands
We could take countries like Finland as an example and keep the power in the parliament. It would be very similar to how constitutional monarchies work, but without the monarchs.
They get what they deserve
Its always a weird reminder that there are still so many monarchies
No more yankee my wankee.
