100 signatures reached
To: Parliament
Make the Queen Pay the Bedroom Tax
To: - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
As the biggest benefit receiver in the country - Make the queen Pay for ALL the excess bedrooms she has in ALL her residences - there are 752 rooms in Buckingham Palace alone!
Why is this important?
In times of austerity, the Queen should not be exempt from the cuts that affect people with far less money than she has.
We're constantly being told by the government that we are "all in this together", however it seems that in every reform it's always the poorest who are hit the hardest.
This year the queen was given a £5 million "pay rise" after a new system of paying the monarchy came into force.Apparently she owns all of OUR country's sea-shore! Meaning that she gets "royalties" for EVERY type of energy -oil,gas,wind,wave, - that crosses HER shoreline.Her annual tax-free government grant has been set at £36.1 million for 2013/14 and will rise accordingly every year.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queen-handed-pay-rise-5-1806123
The queen is estimated to be worth about £17 Billion - much of it made through wars around the world and the arms trade: in other words, she Profits from Human suffering - as all her ancestors have since 1066 A.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm6P5sDXs3k
Yet at the same time people across this country are struggling to cope as the bedroom tax makes it harder and harder to make ends meet each month.
The queen should pay the bedroom tax on her hundreds and hundreds of ornate and unused bedrooms - as a sign that we really are all in this together.
Since I first instigated this Petition, we have had to pay 'William and Kate's decoration Expenses at Kensington Palace and also the increased Security Costs for the ever extending royal family
Also, queenie has just been granted £76,000,000 for repairs at 'buck hice' (you and I will have to make do with Ikea and Homebase).
I had to pay £120 per hour in order to gain MY pilot's Licence. I wonder how much Wills and Harry and Charlie and Stavros (Philips nickname in aristocratic circles) had to pay to get theirs'
How it will be delivered
Although I am physically Disabled, when we have enough signatures I will deliver the petition personally to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and try to ensure press coverage.
