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That's The Way To Do It.
Rachel Reeves has been urged to cut the Half a billion pound donation every year to the Royal Family provided by the tax payer, instead of cutting funding to public services and welfare as expected in the coming Budget, to help fund the £22 billion black hole left by the previous Tory Govt.
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"Don't get bogged down with where the word's come from,..."
Why not?
Here we have a claim that "...Rachel Reeves has been urged to cut the Half a billion pound donation every year to the Royal Family provided by the tax payer,"
I know where that claim stems from and, unsurprisingly, that same organisation is also calling for the abolition of the Monarchy. Cutting their alleged stipend is simply an interim measure before that abolition is achieved.
However, if we're to have a serious conversation here (and this is the "News" section and not "Jokes") the figures need to be examined.
The claim, for example, includes £150m for security (which is a speculative and unaudited figure seemingly plucked from thin air by the claimants) and a further £96m which "could" be raised in revenue from royal residences if they were used for commercial purposes.
Of course, if we had a President, he or she would presumably require no security, nowhere to use for official occasions and Windsor Castle would be turned ino flats. Yeah, right.
That's why the grown-ups need to "...get bogged down with where the words come from" if a sensible conversation is tto follow.
You may be interested to know that a recent YouGov poll found that over 60% of those polled viewed the Monarchy positively with less than 30% taking the opposite view. So it may be a while before your dream of The Democratic Republic of the United Kingdom materialises.