King Charles Should Fund This.

[SIRandyraven]

Heard this on Talk TV this morning and I’m sure others will pick it up.
Well those that want an honour will not me mention it :-)

NHS will have to pay £12 million in overtime costs for just nurses that’s tip of ice berg …cleaners ,kitchen staff , doctors , consultants , surgeons ….
Also waiting lists will get worse losing another day of out patient apointments.
Why the funeral could not have been on a Sunday?
The Queen would have not wanted this, she was one for things carrying on as normal.
Charles is simply out of touch, like Labour was/is with the working classes.

This is unplanned holiday and by decree of our new King and NHS will have to fund via taking money from budget assigned to other services.
So I presume King Charles will be funding this from his billion in wealth or the inheritance tax free (royals don’t pay inheritance tax at 40% like us peasants) from the £450 million in personal wealth he will inherit from the Queen. This is personal wealth including such thing as personal investments, personally owned works of fine art, race horses, personally owned property and land ,personal gifts she had been given over the 7 decades from other royalty especially Arab kings on visits to the uk etc ….).
Obviously her wealth was in the billions but that included assets she only had access to while alive and now handed over to Charles, such as Buckingham palace….Crown Jewels….etc

Diana was buried on a Saturday.

[bednobs]

hold on ... they cant moan that both that the nhs are cancelling service that day, then that they are having to pay the staff extra on that day

[SIRandyraven]

Assets she owned on paper but could not dispose of and handed over to next monarch should remain inheritance tax free of course.

Even the tens of millions the Queen mother left to the young princes was tax free and I guess any money Diana left the same.

One rule for them and another for us it seems.

[davebro]

I'll vent my spleen after the funeral (don't want to end up you-know-where for a 3rd time!).

[SIRandyraven]

Essential services aka non patient services such as A&E, staffing of wards , surgeons for urgent procedures , catering staff etc will all have to work.
Out patient services will be closed.

I was due to give blood on Monday as a pre-req for chemo on Tuesday.
The vampire cave is closed so the chemo nurse are running a limited service on Tuesday taking bloods instead.
Also providing chemo for patients where chemo must be done on sequential days with no gaps.
For others it’s delayed until the Wednesday that makes it organised chaos as they try to shoe horn in everyone from Monday that week.

[SIRandyraven]

*chemo nurses running limited service taking bloods on Monday.

Why can’t this antiquated forum have an edit button …
Show history of edits of course.

[anneasquith]

I’ll stay clear of this .

[New Judge]

//One rule for them and another for us it seems.//

Indeed. And it's just as well, otherwise you might eventually see the Monarch living in a council flat in Pontefract (with no offence intended to council tenants in Pontefract). IHT has seen the end of many large family estates and whilst that may be all jolly and egalitarian when applied to Lord Muck and his progeny, it wouldn't sit too well for the UK's Head of State. The Royal Family is special and few people believe it should be ordinary. Depriving the government of a relatively tiny sum (which they will only waste anyway) is a small price to pay to ensure that elitism is maintained.

[dave50]

As usual, bring 'our wonderful' nhs into the argument, change the record please, its not the be all and end all.

[davebro]

No it's not - promised a consultant's review "in 3 months". Now 5 months & still waiting.

[pastafreak]

Can this please be moved to a more suitable category...its not the time or place for venting your spleen.

[davebro]

//Can this please be moved to a more suitable category.//

Where would you suggest?

[pastafreak]

Sorry...my comment wasn't directed to you davebro. The term is what came to mind as I was wording my post.

[Old_Geezer]

Monarch living in a council flat, seems a reasonable start to me.
The People's Monarch.

[Ellipsis]

It's not the King's choice, it's a long-laid plan (Operation London Bridge): die on day zero, followed by ten days of mourning, then the funeral on day eleven. If she had died on a Saturday, the funeral would have been a Wednesday.

[sadielady]

A friend has an outpatient booked for Monday 19th, when she rang to ask if appoitments were still taking place she was told all appoitments were going ahead as normal. This is in Hertfordshire

[fbg40]

Why don't you drop him a line and ask him - just a thought.
FBG40

[New Judge]

//...when she rang to ask if appoitments were still taking place she was told all appoitments were going ahead as normal.//

Until she gets there. Then she may be asked what on Earth she's doing turning up. Didn't she know the Queen had died? etc. etc.

There's lots of people in the NHS who don't know what lots of other people in the NHS are doing - or not doing.

[davebro]

//There's lots of people in the NHS who don't know what lots of other people in the NHS are doing - or not doing.//

erm - with the size & scope of the NHS how could that be otherwise?

[nero2024]

is it not the government who arranges these funerals and services not the royal establishment?
maybe im wrong

[mushroom25]

// Monarch living in a council flat, seems a reasonable start to me. //

which is OK until our "people's" head of state is required to host another head of state. can you imagine Emmanuel Macron, or Joe Biden, making their way to Leeds on a Megabus, then on to Pontefract on a number 141?