Car driving royal welfare bums attacked in London

Where’s Margaret Thatcher when you need her?

LONDON—In Britain’s worst political violence in years, furious student protesters rained sticks and rocks on riot police, vandalized government buildings and attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, after lawmakers approved a controversial hike in university tuition fees.

Demonstrators set upon the heir to the throne’s limousine as it drove through London’s West End shopping and entertainment hub. Protesters who had been running amok and smashing shop windows kicked and threw paint at the car, which sped off.

Boston Globe

Apparently I’m the only one applauding this development. Here you have thousands of students protesting the recent measure approved by Parliament to triple tuition in the United Kingdom to £9,000 ($14,000) per year, and in the middle of these demonstrations, one of the biggest welfare bums in Britain just happens to be driving through. Prince Charles, his family, and their insanely lavish lifestyles are subsidized by the taxes of the British people to the tune of £41.5m or about $65 million per year, not including the costs of security details. That’s enough money to pay for a year’s tuition of over 4,600 students under the new rates. It isn’t much, but it would be a start.

Living in America, I thought my compatriots would sympathize with the students, but it seems that the anti-monarchy sentiment here isn’t what it used to be. Check out some of the comments on the Boston Globe’s website about this story:

Socialism gone wild. I guess going bankrupt is better for the country then trying to fix the problems.

aceriley82

Looks like trouble in socialist paradise. Time to pay the tab

Irecliner

Nothing to see here just more mobs of far left anarchist “peace” protestors smashing things because they have to pay for their education

UnplugYourselfFromTheMatrix

Granted this is a small sampling, but we can expect some fervid denunciations of the protestors’ actions from the media in due time. But right now I want to ask, what does it say when some people can observe college students protesting what is essentially a tax hike juxtaposed with a fucking royal prince driving through in an antique car, which, along with everything else in that guy’s life is funded by working stiff Britons, and conclude that the problem here is socialism that benefits the students?!!!

It just goes to show how well some Americans have been trained into thinking that the rich must never be the targets of populist anger, even if those rich bastards owe their wealth to the working class. The situation is not all that different in the United States, except instead of subsidizing a monarchy, we pay for the unofficial oligarchy.

- Max

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