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The Coronation is a Waste of Money


Reported by Steve

Published on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023

Community Poverty
Blogs Reports

The Coronation is a Waste of Money


Written by Steve

Published on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023

Community

Poverty

These are stone cold facts for me, anyway. Some guy is at the centre of this Coronation who doesn’t represent one iota of the masses. Meanwhile people have been running around Tescos buying paper plates and jelly to celebrate. I get that people want an escape and all that but there is no out.  

We’ve been in austerity since 2008. There is no out until we unite but instead what we do is accept, we accept that we are forbidden to unite but we are not forbidden to celebrate someone who doesn’t represent us, who contributes nothing to this country.  

He sits at the top of it through birthright but what is my birthright. 20 years of rehab, prison and psychiatric wards. That is my birthright, shall we celebrate that. It just baffles me. People’s attitude. 

I can’t get my head around that fact that when i start talking to people they are like ‘Oh fuck off Steve, you are boring, You are too political’  

How is that even possible. Getting on the bus is political init. Everything is political so some guy getting made king which is a farce and costing millions and million of pounds. I mean each Borough in London has put through 100s of thousands of pounds for street parties and all this bollocks and decorations in offices and all the bumpf that goes with it.  Some councils are spending tens of thousands on celebrations from their already stretched budgets despite having been forced to cut services and raise taxes to avoid bankruptcy. For example Barking and Dagenham, the fifth most deprived local authority in the UK spent £155,000 over the coronation weekend. [1] 

It’s common sense isn’t it…well clearly it’s not to the common man but its sense to see that there is a massive gap in income and wealth and people are supporting this coronation and I get lost for words with it and the fact that you can’t even air these opinions now. You couldn’t go to central London and protest the other day.  

Why can’t you? Why can’t you go and protest? Because they’d rather spend money on having police arresting protesters. They would rather spend money on that than within society, within that Borough to help people have a better life. Then just maybe we would all have something to celebrate that wouldn’t be absolute bollocks.  

Let’s have it right, that’s what it is. It’s hypocrisy backed by the ideological state apparatus which in this country is a huge fucking machine and people are falling for it left, right and centre. People haven’t got any money but what money they have they spend on this bloke. I’m lost for words with it. Maybe this is the north south divide or something but there are not many people I’ve been able to converse with during recent events about this.   

How can you challenge what I’ve just said with any validity. Please someone can you challenge what I’ve said and have a debate about this. I welcome it. For me it is just solid facts and I think it’s a really really sad situation.       

 

1 https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/coronation-38m-costs-local-councils-barking-bromley-ealing/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=content_studio 

Written by Steve


Steve joined the Listen Up project as a volunteer, initially working on the Call and Check project before becoming a volunteer on the Covid Monitoring Project. When Listen Up was launched Steve successfully applied for one of the new Project Officer posts. Although he enjoyed the role he decided his skills were best suited to volunteering at this time. As a result he is once again a volunteer reporter and has now done the HHPA [Homeless Health Peer Advocate] training which allows him to advocate for vulnerable people, helping them to access health care in a way that is best for them. Steve has roots in Manchester but travelling and meeting people from all walks of life while discussing the price of chips is something that Steve would describe as a perfect day! As a result he has recently moved to London.

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