The Royal Family's Sovereign Grant to be doubled from £40m to £76m

[FlyingJesus]

Seen a load of shitty articles calling it an increase in the cost to taxpayers even though they only get money from what their own stuff earns, apparently giving ONLY 75% of your income away is a drain on the British people somehow even though for everyone else 45% is the maximum that can be taken

[-:Undertaker:-]

Seen a load of shitty articles calling it an increase in the cost to taxpayers even though they only get money from what their own stuff earns, apparently giving ONLY 75% of your income away is a drain on the British people somehow even though for everyone else 45% is the maximum that can be taken

The republican argument aka Independent and Guardian articles don't even make sense on this.


Option A) Retain the monarchy as a constitutional safeguard and naturally restore Buckingham Palace.
Option B) Abolish the monarchy with a presidency headed by a politician with costly elections, have to restore the Palace anyway.
Option C) Unlikely but merge Head of State with Head of Government. Have to restore Buckingham Palace as a museum anyway.