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Prince William, who's just launched a big PR campaign to "End Homelessness" owns over 600 properties rented out for tens of millions a year, while his tenants are living in mouldy, freezing conditions (www.mirror.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The UK is back to feudalism it seems

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

well...ending with the homeless is the bourgueois option to "end homelessness"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

So these lofty projects are distraction?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Well he did call for an end to homelessness, not for an end to shitty housing conditions now innit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's something poetic about royalty devolving back into nothing more than shitty landlords.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no devolution here. That's what they always were.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Sure, conceptually. It's just a big step down from "own half the world and can order armies around" to "own a few hundred flats and have to get a court order to evict someone."