Preezy wrote:Cuttooth wrote:Preezy wrote:What a laughably naive tweet. The UK spends BILLIONS on the military, why single out the Royal Family's expenses over the money we waste fighting unwinnable wars in the desert?
Because Grenfell and the Royal family epitomise the chasm in social inequality in modern Britain?
That's a pretty good point, but it doesn't change the fact that the tweet is misguided. As Drumstick said, the council chose not to spend their money on that tower, trying to use Grenfell to bash the royal family doesn't work for me.
People always try and link two pretty much unrelated things together like that.
“Why are we giving foreign aid when we have homeless people here!”
“Why are old people cold in the winter when Ian Huntley gets to live in a warm prison!”
“Why are footballers paid so much when nurses get hardly anything!”
“Why do we pay £350m a week to the EU, let’s fund our NHS instead!”
That Grenfell tweet is actually pretty disgusting though. Getting rid of the royals would have done nothing to help those people, the council were to blame for the immediate cause and the government for the secondary causes. It is not helpful to try and shift the blame onto the royal family.