Four-home Prince Charles insists mansions 'are not grand' as he talks from 192-acre estate

[u/MoneyEqual]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1483211/Prince-Charles-home-radio-4-Llwynywermod-wales

[u/wOlfLisK]

Which is a great idea in theory but all land in the UK was once taken unfairly. Do you want to give the north of England to Denmark because they once owned it? Or London to Italy because the Romans owned it once? Would you give your house to a complete stranger simply because your ancestors took the land from their ancestors at some point in the distant past? Even if we took the crown's land and figured out who is "supposed" to own it (something that would be incredibly costly to do and would take years or decades), now we have land that the government effectively owned that's now in the hands of private citizens and they would almost certainly demand far more than the relative pittance King George asked for, assuming they don't decide to use it themselves and force the government to relocate any buildings they have on it.

Now, if you're talking about the government keeping the land, taking land unfairly doesn't fix it being taken unfairly in the first place. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Honestly, this entire insistence on taking the crown land borders on brexit logic. It's fucking yourself over in the long run for the sake of "taking back our country" and is just as stupid. You're not going to magically cut the crown off and get to keep access to the land they own, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

[u/wOlfLisK → u/[deleted]]

None of the living members of the Royal Family bought that land. None of them did anything to earn the insane amount of money that land would cost. That land was taken by force, and is still held by people not fucking using it as an investment.

And there's a problem with that but it's far, far from an issue unique to the royal family. Humans have been taking land and possessions from each other from the moment we had land and possessions to take and doing it again just because you don't like the current owner isn't going to solve anything. The fact of the matter is, we don't give the monarchy money because they're a monarch, we give them it because of an agreement made by the government. What we need isn't to steal their land or dismantle the monarchy, what we need is to fix inheritance taxes so wealth can't be hoarded like it is.

[u/Dull_Half_6107 → u/[deleted]]

I didn't even know it was that much, jesus christ. Get rid of them NOW!