Benefit claimant Prince George takes £18,000 a year from the taxpayer – just for his education
Thomas’s Battersea is considered a feeder school for public schools like Eton, Westminster and Marlborough [Image: BBC].
His education at Thomas’s Battersea will cost us – you and me – £18,000 a year.
That’s nearly 17 times the amount of child benefit available for an older child.
And, of course, nobody is allowed child benefit for a third child unless they can satisfy the so-called ‘rape clause’ in the benefit regulations. The Royals get out of this because they are provided a separate benefit by virtue of being on the Civil List.
This Writer is not a republican; I think the Royals are a valuable part of the UK’s character and good for the economy.
But it isn’t right that they are immune to the ravages of austerity. Why should they have access to apparently-unlimited supplies of money while the rest of us suffer?
What about the future? Thomas’s Battersea is a feeder school for places like Eton, which are more expensive.
And will Prince George have any university education paid for him by the rest of us? Of course he will.
Of course, the British public is having its say:
Great to see Prince George rewriting history, while others die from starvation just round the corner, becoming the 1st child to go to school
— Flangetastic! (@DanHewitt_) September 7, 2017
£18,000 a year for school, just another pupil Prince George #austerity #shortages #foodbanks #fuelpoverty #pensions how much will he learn
— Keith Ball He/he Ha/ha (@Hylas1962) September 7, 2017
So, Prince George has started school? Well, so have thousands of other kids across the country, he ain't the only one FFS!
— Ryan (@RyanStripes) September 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/tiktaliksantino/status/905743084197163009
https://twitter.com/AidanKelly4/status/905741695974821889
PEOPLE SLEEPING IN DOORWAYS,ESA FOR A COUPLE £7,500 A YEAR,KIDS IN POVERTY,FOOD BANKS,PRINCE GEORGE GOING TO INFANTS SCHOOL £18,000 A YEAR.
— KENNETH MASON (@KAMPERKEN9) September 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/DiligentTruth/status/905741247142354944
You get the idea.
In fairness, there are plenty of supportive comments as well.
But do the people making those comments have to struggle to pay the bills every week?
Prince George has started his first day at school.
The four-year-old is attending Thomas’s Battersea, an £18,000-a-year preparatory school in London.
Source: Prince George starts first day of school – BBC News
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The Windsors – the country’s biggest benefit scroungers.
How exactly do u figure that?
Just another parasite to pay for as the working class sinks in poverty
Prince George should be attending main stream school and not costing us, the taxpayer, more than is necessary.
And who is it actually pays his school fees?
I disagree with you there Mike. Nobody needs a ‘royal family’! What the hell is a ‘royal family’ anyway! it is a very sad state of affairs when you need a ‘royal family’ to boost the economy. Notwithstanding that viewpoint, thank you very much for all that you do. I appreciate what you do very much.
Oh, hey, I didn’t say anybody needed them, did I? I just think they happen to be good for the economy.
Steady on Mike! No you didn’t say that and I wasn’t actually inferring that you did. I just disagreed with what you said. And then I said what I said. Have a nice day!
Oh, did I misunderstand? You wrote: “I disagree with you there Mike. Nobody needs a ‘royal family’!” so I took it to mean that you thought I was saying we did need them. I wasn’t.
All sorted. No worries.