Can I opt out of contributing to the new royal yacht and put my bit into the NHS please

Matthew Payne

NHS heroes get a 1% pay cut, 3 million self employed people get forgotten about by amnesiac
@RishiSunak
, Food Bank use at astronomical proportions, and many going without. Obscene Tory Government.says not enough to go round. But can find money for new Royal Yacht Britannia ffs!!!

Or

A Practical Guide To Abolish The Monarchy

theworldasitcouldbe.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/a-practical-guide-to-abolish-the-monarchy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

It's on Sky News as well as the telegraph

news.sky.com/story/new-royal-yacht-named-after-prince-philip-to-be-commissioned-within-weeks-costing-as-much-as-200m-12292880

Who is the mistress ???

Peasblossom

The thing is Whiteavemark, I don’t think there’s a media source out there that doesn’t seize on/create rumours and stories. Johnson may have put it out there, he might not. Nobody knows.

Keir Starmer might have a mistress, he might not. Nobody knows. It’s just a story from a “source”.

The media just makes it up as it goes along.

I would be happy to accept your argument if history showed us that the rumours about Johnson and ideas by Johnson did not show that they were true and he didnt have such daft ideas. Like the garden bridge etc.

What? Did I miss that?

This thread has taken a surreal turn.....

The thing is Whiteavemark, I don’t think there’s a media source out there that doesn’t seize on/create rumours and stories. Johnson may have put it out there, he might not. Nobody knows.

Keir Starmer might have a mistress, he might not. Nobody knows. It’s just a story from a “source”.

The media just makes it up as it goes along.

Nannan2

Yes the BBC should definitely pay for it! Theyre already taking money for old rope off us for beggar all, for what? Maybe giving us ONE genuinely good series a year ('call the midwife' - also involving and due to the medical profession) and maybe a fair bit of coverage of the news and when a Royal passes on- but so equally do other channels whom we don't have to pay an arm& a leg for in licence fees! So yes, Urmstongran you are right- BBC should definitely foot the bill.It would be one British institution helping another.(shipbuilding)

Let's stop dissing the BBC which has actually provided some of the most watched programmes- Strictly, Line ofDuty, etc. and came through with its duty to educate during lockdown with Bitesize etc. If you want the real figures www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/bbc-annual-report-2019-20

I've was often regularly told that if the whole national budget was given to the NHS it still wouldn't be enough. I used to pooh pooh that line of debate but now I think it may well be true.

Yes, Urmstongran, I applaud your suggestion.
And sack Laura Kuenssberg for sloppy and untruthful reporting, (see James Dyson) and put her salary towards it.

Just another rumour, it seems.
Can my share of ‘arts’ funding go to the nhs too, if we are being given a choice.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/01/exclusive-britannia-rule-waves-new-royal-yacht-named-prince/

Fake news in the Telegraph? Surely not.

New royal yacht named after Prince Philip to be 'commissioned within weeks', costing as much as £200m

Sky.

Yes Johnson has certainly put the idea out there.

But it is typical of the man isn’t it?

fake news

Is it real though? Or just another newspaper story. He said, she said.

I’m sick to death of rumours and “sources”.

Yes the BBC should definitely pay for it! Theyre already taking money for old rope off us for beggar all, for what? Maybe giving us ONE genuinely good series a year ('call the midwife' - also involving and due to the medical profession) and maybe a fair bit of coverage of the news and when a Royal passes on- but so equally do other channels whom we don't have to pay an arm& a leg for in licence fees! So yes, Urmstongran you are right- BBC should definitely foot the bill.It would be one British institution helping another.(shipbuilding)

I’m not entirely sure what I think about this, so I will read what you’ve all got to say and then decide.

Helps with unemployment. How about we take it from BBC license fees? Last year the BBC took £3.5 billion to thoroughly demote and undermine this nation, so £200M is a drop in the ocean (ahem), for something to proudly promote the UK around the world.

It would generate millions in trade and prestige!

*yet another

(Sorry again!)

It's yer another vanity project for the man who would be "King of the World".

But how will it bring in trade? William and Kate are unlikely to go swanning around shaking hands and leaving the children at home, any of the others are unlikely trade inducers are they? This is blatant flag waving at its worst and a big mistake. If the government wish to do something in Prince Phillip's name, why not open a new hospital and name it after him?

Yes can I sign up for that as well please ?

To bring in

Perhaps the theory is that it will help to being in billions in trade deals which will help the economy and bring in more money for public services.

I am trying to look at the wider picture here ?

Doesn't HM have a say?

It's ok NotSpaghetti, I know.