SCOTS have reacted with fury to the news that the UK Government is planning to spend millions to hang portraits of King Charles III in Scottish…
should be used for education, not for propping up the propaganda effort of an out-of-touch and increasingly obsolete institution attempting to cling to legitimacy as Scots, especially young Scots, turn their backs on it," they said.
“Schools are meant to prepare young people for their future, not as a last-ditch effort for Charles to protect his own.” Many others took to Twitter to react to the news, with National columnist Ruth Wishart commenting: “Oliver Dowden, the bizarre choice as Deputy PM, wants every public building to have a mugshot of King Charles ‘the ultimate public servant’.“You couldn’t make it up” commented another, while others simply tweeted #abolishthemonarchy.was also among those to hit out, saying the plans represented a"grotesque misuse of public funds".
"Yet instead of spending money on supoprting our public services and workers like firefighters and nurses, the UK Government's focus is on dystopian schemes to hang portraits above their desks.hold us in, and the grossly unequal system they support. Scotland deserves so much better."colleague Ross Greer , who said the scheme “would look more at home in North Korea”.
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