Long-time benefit scroungers, the Royal Family are set for a staggering 94% increase in taxpayer funding through the Sovereign Grant.
So, while the rest of us are told there’s no money for public services and everyone needs to tighten their belts, the richest family in the country is about to see its public funding almost double.
When doctors and other public sector workers are criticised for asking for pay rises of 5% or 6.6%, it’s hard not to notice a pretty sickening contrast. Apparently, modest wage increases are “unaffordable” — unless you’re already fabulously wealthy.
And this comes at the same time ministers are warning the public to expect more spending on defence with even more pressure on public finances. As is typical of the neoliberal era we live in, there’s always money for the privileged — it’s everyone else who’s expected to make the sacrifices.
This only goes to show, imperialism is still very much alive and well in the UK — much to the cost of ordinary hard-working people.
As doctors battle for a modest 6.6% pay rise and civil servants are denied even 5%, the “slimmed-down” Royal Family watches its core Sovereign Grant surge 94% to £100m over three years, effectively doubling their funding.
We all sacrificed through Brexit and the pandemic, yet… pic.twitter.com/Wokzge2Bd9
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King
Greedy elites rule the roost
Since the financial crash of 2008, ordinary people have increasingly paid more for less, and any pay increases have been absorbed by a simultaneous increase in outgoings, as a result of the cost-of-greed crisis that embodies the era we live in.
Contrary to Murdoch-press fueling claims that it is those with genuine need that are fleecing the state’s coffers, the greed of elites has led to a huge rise in inflation, price-gouging in supermarkets and consumables, and underinvestment in the crumbling infrastructure sold off to private interests.
Now, some of the most self-important, ego-inflated, cash-rich Britons are set to ask us all for more — or more correctly, they aren’t asking, they are taking.
When this comes at a time where poverty is rising, we have more food banks across the UK than ever before — in turn profiting MPs who predicted the rise and saw a lucrative business opportunity — it begs the question: why are we paying these rich cretins when they make it abundantly clear that they couldn’t care less about the public at large?
Royal Family — What does our money really pay for?
Also, when we learn how paedo-prince Andrew used taxpayers’ cash for massages, and Buckingham Palace accommodated private meetings between convicted sex pest Jeffrey Epstein and the pervert ‘Royal’, why should we be giving them even more?
Surely, the family owe the British public and should share the load — they certainly have the wealth to, they could weather this cost of repairs pretty easily — but it’s abundantly clear how greedy elites expect freebies and profits whilst the rest of us are left with less and less day by day.
Thankfully, more and more are now calling for the Monarchy to be abolished — after all, we cannot afford this at a time of great national need and they are fleecing us far more than they are benefitting us:
Bruh this is actually insane
some 80 year old posh geezer in a fancy dress costume and a borrowed crown gets wheeled out to read a script written by the same MPs who treat us like mugs.
In 2026 Britain is still blowing millions of our taxes on this medieval larping session… pic.twitter.com/lT4hH88x9J
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We cannot afford the greedy rich and the Royal Family
The super-rich have spent years buying influence. They bankroll politicians, get the tax breaks, pocket the subsidies, and watch their wealth keep growing while everyone else is told to tighten their belts.
Then there’s the Royal Family. They live by a different set of rules, pay tax voluntarily, enjoy privileges the rest of us could never dream of, and expect the public to keep footing the bill with barely any real transparency.
Instead of asking why the richest keep getting richer, we’re told to blame people on benefits, disabled people, or refugees fleeing war. It’s the oldest trick in the book: keep ordinary people arguing with each other while those at the top walk away with the money.
Take asylum seekers. Politicians love complaining about the cost of putting people in hotels, but they created that cost. If you stop people from working while their claims are processed, of course they’re going to need somewhere to live and support to survive.
Gent in salmon, “I despair every time I hear the panel talk about attacking welfare again”
“Leave the poor, disabled, the sick and the ill, alone” pic.twitter.com/wl68yfVLbZ
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) June 26, 2026
We aren’t here by accident but by design
The housing crisis is no accident either. Governments have failed to build enough affordable homes for years, leaving everyone fighting over what’s left. Whether you’re a single parent priced out by soaring rents or someone arriving in Britain looking for safety, you’re stuck in the same broken system.
The real winners are the landlords collecting record rents, the developers cashing in, and the wealthy watching their assets soar while everyone else gets squeezed.
And when people finally say, “Maybe the richest should pay a bit more,” they threaten to leave the country. Go then.
A country where nurses, carers, teachers and builders can afford to live is worth far more than one where billionaires pay as little as they can while expecting everyone else to pick up the tab.
Getting rid of the monarchy which normalises this pedestaling of extreme wealth would be a bloody good place to start.
We don’t need to change Prime Ministers every two years.
We need to change the system once and for all.
Neoliberalism has failed.
We need an economy which serves the 99.99%, not the 0.01%. pic.twitter.com/zp4QFapSd6
— Joss Sheldon (@JossSheldon) June 21, 2026
We are better off by telling the greedy scroungers to f*** off
If we ended our corrosive love affair with the monarchy, we would save a butt-load of cash. Yes, they have tourist value — but their properties belong to the state, so we should maintain tourist rights without continuing to be ripped off.
The rich want to have their cake and eat it too — whilst more and more are left going hungry and mothers skipping meals to make sure their children have full stomachs.
It is high time that the British public decide who matters more to them — the millions grafting to put food on the table, looking after their local communities, and dealing with the fallout of poverty and deprivation — or the super-rich who rub their hands with glee at the growing need and the business opportunities that creates.
Given Prince William will make £68m from our pockets until 2033 for a radioactive prison that we can’t even use, this really should be a no-brainer.
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Canary is such a tab rag sometimes. Well, often. The uplift is specifically to pay for the restoration of Buck House on behalf of the nation. The need and the cost would not change with a republic.
But that doesn’t deliver rage bait.
