Monarchy does no good to UK at all: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Shabbir Razvi, an economic commentator, and Benjamin Duncan, a broadcaster, both in London to discuss a significant increase in the British queen’s income despite the harsh austerity cuts in the UK.
Razvi says despite the fact that the Britons have been suffering the impacts of the austerity measures for over five last years and the Tory government in London wants to implement more severe austerity measures, the British monarchy has seen an increase in its income.
Over a million people in the UK go to food banks whereas the budget for the monarchy has increased from 36 million pounds to 40 million pounds, he argues, adding that people should pay taxes for one extra bedroom in Britain but the queen gives no taxes for the 200 extra bedrooms in the Buckingham Palace.
He says 30 million visitors who come to the UK do not visit the queen at all, but they come to visit historical monuments; thus, the “monarchy does no good at all” for the nation.
Pointing to the role of the UK monarchy in the world, Razvi says the British monarchical establishment mixes with the “dictator of Bahrain” and the “ruler of Saudi Arabia,” who are destroying the Middle East.
For his part, Duncan believes no one in Britain has questioned the monarchical system, because people think the monarchy upholds the UK’s image throughout the world with regard to prestige and foreign policy.
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