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King's tie features Greek flag after Elgin Marbles row (www.bbc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by mannycalavera to c/uk_politics

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[–] catch22@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This, the fuck you to the DUP when meeting them and sein Fein.

https://youtu.be/BsVyiV3ae8o

E: Just looked at the other comments, just for clarity, I think it might be more a fuck you to Sunak than Greece... Finding it hard to not to have a bit of a liking for the imperial overload..

[–] echodot 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

People have a problem with the royal family and I do get it but both the Queen and now the King both seem to at least understand their privilege. They actually use their power, in as much as they can, for good.

Which puts them head and shoulders above the current government. Who does the opposite.

[–] catch22@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

The current government is money/power hungry grifters. The royals have the unearned privilege by birth to just sneer at whoever they want. Broken clocks and all that.

The royal prerogative that allows the firm to quietly block any legislation that goes through is pretty grim

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vetted-more-than-1000-laws-via-queens-consent

But yeah, Charlie has done some pretty funny things recently

[–] tegs_terry 3 points 11 months ago

If they gave 90% of their unnecessary wealth away to children starving and freezing in their domain right now, then I might start to like them. Anything short of that is insufficient.