Beyond Satire

[poliphilo]

In the same week that the benefit cuts come into effect they've announced that the Queen is getting a rise of £5 million to help her maintain the Royal Household.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

And I thought I was depressed yesterday...

The good news just keeps coming.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The Queen will be able to keep all her footmen. Hooray!

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Maybe she could consider cutting back instead like the rest of us. What with Ray losing £14 a week because of the bedroom tax (even though they don't have any one-bedroom flats available) and the other benefit cuts, if I wasn't there, he'd be living in a flat with no heat, no telly, no phone and eating a LOT of noodles.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're having to pay Council Tax for the first time. It represents quite a chunk out of our income.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Well, that's what you get for being lazy layabouts and not going out there and getting a proper job at Burger King or something! Seriously, it's really bludgeoning so many people who need it the least.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It would be far more acceptable if we really were in it together- if the millionaires weren't getting a tax cut and the Queen a pay rise. The poor didn't cause this financial crisis but they're the ones who're being expected to pay for it.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

And the bankers continue to get their bonuses.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Of course. If they didn't get them they might go abroad and what a loss that would be!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

It is about time the "precarious proletariat" rise up to turf these scoundrels out of office.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think we're too doped, too pacified to take to the streets- more's the pity.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Oh, you saw that too!

Fwiw, I'm a republican................................

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

And me

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of it about y'know! :o)

I blame being a historian with a specialism in the 17th century and the Civil Wars.

You?