Month: June 2013
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Windsor Handout Scandal
Five Per Cent Increase While Public Pay Cut The day after the government declared that public sector pay should be reduced again, it increased the public handout to the Windsor clan by 5.2%. The pay rise followed a 5.2% increase in the profits of the “Crown Estate”, a vast public property holding. Since 2012 the…
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No Getting Rid of Legislators-for-Life
Following allegations that three legislators-for-life and one elected legislator had agreed to sell their services in the legislature to lobbyists, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maud has told the press that there will be legislation to allow electors to recall MPs in some cases of serious misbehaviour. Electors are already able to remove MPs at election…
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FT Lives in Feudal Times
The Financial Times has repeated its claim that the Crown Estate belongs to queen Liz Windsor, the hereditary head of state. In a report on a deal with a Canadian pension fund property correspondent Ed Hammond referred to the Estate as “the queen’s property company.” In fact the Crown Estate is effectively a government department…