King Charles sets out Labour government’s plans and priorities in king’s speech - watch in full

The King delivered his speech at the state opening of parliament on Wednesday, setting out plans for new government legislation under Labour for the first time in over a decade.
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[@GreeGraa]

I wonder what the font size on that paper is

[@An_inquisitive_thinker]

​@quwipyui6519 Starmer didn't write it either. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@bbobson2k]

Who knows but in the modern age teleprompters are used not paper for talking heads.

[@cyan_wings5420]

X;'D

[@FSCforal]

A guy in a gold chair telling us about the cost of living ,nice 😂

[@Xzy666]

Not just gold, diamond encrusted gold 😂

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

clearly you have no idea about the function he is doing and why he is dressed like that and what that represents that is your problem not ours incredible you got to vote

[@IDontUsuallyMakeAYou]

​@@onlythesongsilike4856 spoken like a true pleb

[@Xzy666]

@@onlythesongsilike4856 What is this function you talk of? It serves no function, it's just an archaic tradition which makes our democracy look ridiculous. This speech should be read by the elected prime minister.

[@suvadipmaiti7092]

UK is a democracy with king just like Iran. lol.

[@hannosolo]

Open mic night isn’t what it used to be.

[@outtheredude]

At least he's more thrilled to read out these plans for government than those of the last lot.

[@georginadoll6372]

You div.

[@bereal6590]

How rude georgina

[@PotteryGee-SoldierZero]

Same Script they all work for the Same Boss

[@bbobson2k]

He looks catatonic vs thrilled.

[@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye]

And you are going to just give away the State’s property to big corporations……😢

[@fnk101]

This is where Pimps learnt to dress

[@TheRafaelRamos]

Wow Old Charlie talking about Artificial Intelligence! He is talking serious! 😯😆

[@GHHHHJKKKKK]

Strange times

[@PatCarrigan6363]

He looks like I did at school delivering my spoken english GCSE exam 😂🇬🇧

[@gailrobinson3853]

101 Dalmatians 😂

[@edsr164]

Very underwhelming for a government with such huge majority

[@richardgrant2019]

😂😂😂

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Just a little embarrassing

[@ericnicholson9944]

Room full of over paid entitled people

[@MyScotty7]

Make Britain Great again!

[@Vespa123]

BS as usual

[@ianmccuaig9867]

How much did this cost the taxpayers can anyone tell me

[@nitsujism]

£12.73p

[@luchta4]

Couple pounds

[@blaircorral8158]

Thirteen shillings and sixpence 😢

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Too much

[@md.am89]

Please save bangladeshi students🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@Kingdennissinned]

So Queen Charles is Ok with THIS???

[@H.R.H-Amina_Bin_Shafiq-SHAKTI]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I LOVED EVERYTHING THAT KING CHARLES SAID! HES SUCH AN ELOQUENT SPEAKER

[@bbobson2k]

Reading from a paper?

[@bb69bb]

@@bbobson2k 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheEARofTRUMP]

WEF puppets

[@markshulman3150]

Wah wah wah please cry more

[@TheEARofTRUMP]

@@markshulman3150 🙄 Mark by name mark by nature.... just how they like it

[@bereal6590]

Lol, that's all you trolls repeat all the time, so boring. Wef this wef that 😂

[@HereIam-rg3vy]

@@TheEARofTRUMPaww,have a big cry 😭😂🤣

[@BossTweed69]

​@@markshulman3150grow up

[@Rob-hy8vb]

All this is so outdated

[@MarkHalberstram]

lol cry about it

[@walterfielding9079]

That's the point. What do you want instead? Something modern with no history or culture that is like every other country? Look at the US or France? That's the alternative.

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

says who?

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Just following orders I guess

[@pinkifloyd7867]

@@MarkHalberstram that's COL

[@user-hb1ih1mk6r]

She is making a fool of the monarchy.

[@ZrankFappaH]

“My government will govern in service on the country” yeah we’ll see pal.

[@lsmith9249]

Labour governments do nothing for the working class

[@ishootaliens6264]

who G.A.F

[@geoffstow394]

A new nightmare is on the horizon.

[@AntecGreeno83]

My government will strengthen the border and make streets safer that aged well😂.

[@jasonfreeland1848]

Under your book your grand lorson

[@michaelmoran2022]

King oozing Enthusiasm reading this🤣🤣

[@LordValorum]

He's 70 years old

[@danDlion82]

I wonder if he feels ridiculous wearing that?

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Na he's not conscious yet

[@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye]

I think it looks AWESOME…. I LOVE the tradition!!!

[@jasonfreeland1848]

U have no rights to block me gas

[@kjtaylor5948]

Not Charles!!! Charles 2.0

[@NeverBagHolding]

Do we believe a single word uttered in this video ?

[@Big_Glizzy.]

Yes

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

depends if you believe in the labour or not

[@nitsujism]

Yep.

[@bereal6590]

Yes

[@neil1997]

Wait, i don't remember all this being in the manifesto???

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

hahahahahah surprise surprise

[@alexevansuk]

Keeping the manifesto as short as possible was key.. Less for the media and sceptics to attack. If at least 60% of this is achieved in 5 years, this government will have done more for the people than the previous managed in 14 years. There was no other viable party.

[@jasonfreeland1848]

Ubr a theft picbrick

[@johnjones1325]

Not my king

[@thealmightyaku-4153]

Yes, he is.

[@gregdavidl647]

Oh gosh. Talk like you care about it. And talk from a table minus the crown.

[@TJTLY]

What is your role. Why are we paying tax for you and your family?

[@kreeivo8831]

Surprisingly. The royal family indirectly brings in more money to the country than they take out of it

[@MarkHalberstram]

They’re paying for you.

[@walterfielding9079]

​@@MarkHalberstramYep! The Royal Family actually saves money on taxes not the opposite.

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

the fact you don't understand his role it is your problem, it is also quite incredible you have been granted the right to vote.

[@TJTLY]

@onlythesongsilike4856 Arrogance at its best! Thanks for allowing me to vote. I really appreciate your kind gesture!

[@misaghkhosravi4541]

LONG LIVE THE KING🙏

[@blaircorral8158]

AMEN ✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✝️

[@thecoolyoyo5353]

I never realized until that this ritual is so strange. Charles is reading the speech to his lords and his parliament members but it wasn't written by him, so he's also reading it to himself? You can tell that even he's a bit embarrassed by it.

[@AndreasOndal]

Nice bit of hereditary democracy here 😅😅😅😅

[@kyner455]

what on earth does he look like.. comically ridiculous. No need for this pomp in these times..

[@anthonybrown4874]

Go live elsewhere if you dont like it.

[@TasteTheD]

@@anthonybrown4874 We cant because... Brexit

[@okbutthenagain.9402]

@@TasteTheD Stop making weak excuses using Brexit. just admit you're to lazy to do anything!

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

@@TasteTheD Labour didn't oppose to brexit differently than then then PM (Conservative)

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

the fact you can't grasp the importance and meaning of this is worrying and so it is the fact you have the right to vote

[@TheVRSofa]

Hardly value for money for the tax payer is it. Looks like the 1600s....how many hospitaks can you buy wirh that throne. And we PAY for this?! Uk is a joke

[@vjzx732]

You don't pay for it. It was stolen from India

[@reuben8531]

my profile picture is a bike

[@patrickbateman6620]

Have some respect for the ancestry of Britain

[@hmrobert7016]

The throne was already paid for hundreds of years ago.

[@TheEARofTRUMP]

I think all that stuff is older than any of us 😂

[@jamesbond3235]

We'll see if it's still his government, if they make the country worse 😂

[@handsomenumber1393]

Watch and learn Richi.

[@TMGold60]

wont learn anything from Labour - they wont do one of his requests

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

I can never take these 'throne talks' seriously. My dude, you're covered with plundered wealth.

[@okbutthenagain.9402]

Yet here you are commentating.

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

he is represnting his function, rightly so

[@GabriBrettas144]

Circus

[@pinkifloyd7867]

How embarrassing it must be ...

[@j.ongman5512]

Long live the king

[@rickross3153]

TRUMP2024 😂😂😂

[@ChuffedLemon]

No.

[@ChachaPomus]

Misery loves company!!

[@SONofTHC]

how dare you interrupt the kings speech with an advert!! 😂

[@pinkifloyd7867]

He needs the money, have some compassion will ye

[@rambo8429]

Net zero isn't fairness so as such should be scrapped.

[@user-ek1fy2ny4t]

Thanks bot

[@EcoHouseThailand]

What evidence can you provide to support this statement or is it just an unfounded opinion?

[@DWmudskipper]

@@EcoHouseThailandif you are ooor you can not afford the price increases from introducing more tax to pay for these new energy sources plus a carbon tax on food etc makes the U.K. have more inequality than it already does, plus England does practically nothing to global emissions and net zero should be enacted in China and india instead lol

[@Redzwan]

Why?. Because big oil has always been fair, eh?.

[@rambo8429]

@@EcoHouseThailand did anyone vote on it because surveys where done and most where against it due to it destroying the economy that is just one example it's not fair.

[@dl-vb4vm]

Not my king 🟡

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

Tough luck. He is. "Not my king" implies that someone else should be. Like most slogans, it's nonsense. But he should at least be allowed to wear a lounge suit rather than this Ruritanian clobber.

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

my King though

[@jonb4248]

He is if you’re British 🇬🇧. I take it you’re not British then.

[@briaredpath9386]

@@RobertJonesWightpaintOr a tracksuit like his bestie Saville ?

[@briaredpath9386]

@@onlythesongsilike4856Sorry to hear that.

[@oddity4650]

😂wth is Camilla doing, cant she at least cut a ribbon, instead of sit there in a gold thrown lucking like she is better than eveyone else, seriously u cant make this up, thw whole house or lords system is a joke

[@jonethomas3892]

Ah no change then. Carry on

[@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye]

Seriously, the King and Queen look AMAZING!!! Please don’t ever stop this tradition…..

[@Lynton-w3v]

The queen resembles the president of France wife. Ate they related?

[@nickj3287]

I'm 3.29 in and this is the best I've heard as government priorities for many many years, and I've only listened to 3.29 so far it sounds like the population and country are, if the government is successful in delivering these priorities, benefiting from these policies. Time will tell.....

[@bereal6590]

Excellent, the adults are back in charge. The king sounds way happier reading this one than all the prior. 👏👏✋✌

[@okbutthenagain.9402]

Adults? Well its for sure you don't mean Liebore!

[@bereal6590]

@@okbutthenagain.9402 go away hater

[@MacJnrD]

This is hilarious

[@user-mw8be8jv8r]

Building! Yeah not for Brits that's for sure.

[@H_a_n842]

Better in a house they’re paying for than a hotel the taxpayers are paying for! Can’t stop immigration, but you can certainly stop wasting money when people can get jobs and become independent. The building they’re talking about is also for important services like hospitals and prisons not just housing, which we definitely need. I’m not 100% sure all this will happen, but I’m hopeful for the first time in years.

[@mrkdrm]

Is he supposed to be the king of something? Really?

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

yes, what is that is so difficult to grasp for you?

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Calm down, it's just a comedy

[@JohnnieB13]

Backward thinking

[@sergiuhv_]

Powerless.

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

rightly so

[@garydavid1788]

Unfortunately not true!

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Hopeless

[@jakebe4915]

The King appears as bored as we are. None of this will come to pass, post Brexit, which killed the Country..

[@cliveengel5744]

At least the Viking Norsemen fought each other for the Title, since when did the Von Battenbergs of Rhine and Gothe and of course Windsor do anything like that.

[@thealmightyaku-4153]

The lineage of the King goes all the way back 1600 years to the Romano-British chiefs who defended the southern British coasts, to King Cerdic. Also, every male member of the Royals is a former member of the Armed Forces. For all his many faults, Prince Andrew, for example, fought in the Falklands.

[@lsmith9249]

the hanoverians were part scottish, the Windsors are also part English and the majority of this country has foreign ancestry britain has had immigrants for centuries

[@cliveengel5744]

@@thealmightyaku-4153 The Angles, Saxons, and Vikings formed England, and then the Normans transformed the nation into what it is today with the Anglo-Saxon Norman Language from 1066. The Romans never had any Kings. The Norman Conquerors transformed the Law, the Church, and the Language. The Normans built Windsor Castle, and then the Von Battenburgs of Rhine, Gothe, and Hesse assumed power. They only changed their family name from Von Battenburg to Mount Batten to suit the commoners and then changed it to Windsor after the Norman Castle. The Three Lions are the coat of arms brought to England by Norman the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, and Duke of Aquitaine. Richard, Cour De Lion of Aquitaine and Normandy. But today, it is more about Marching bands, Regalia, and Tattoos; Swords are not used. All the pomp and ceremony is about Tourism. Great Britain is the Latin term for the Largest Island of the British Isles, like the Grand Comores and Grand Canaries. Grand equal to Large! I am looking forward to the unification of Ireland!

[@thealmightyaku-4153]

@@cliveengel5744 The Royal Family can trace its lineage back to Cerdic of Wessex. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle maintains he was an Angle, descended from Odin himself - but "Cerdic" is a native Brittonic (ie. Celtic) name, as are the names of 7 of his immediate successors. (Also, the Romans did have Kings - the 7 Kings of Rome, and native client kings beneath the aegis of their Imperium were common, like Herod the Great, and it was their general policy to work with local/native prominent families and royal houses.) After the departure of the Roman Empire from Britain's shores, the native Romano-Britons tried to maintain & continue their policies & maintain security (some say the last true successor to the Roman Empire in the West was actually a minor Welsh kingdom). That meant giving native chiefs authority, and hiring foreign tribes as mercenaries, foederati, who were then paid in settlement rights - ie. the Angles, Saxons, & Jutes. King Cerdic seems to have been one such native Chief who hired Angles to help keep order and maintain coastal security. Indeed, it may even be that the lineage of leadership might go back to pre-Roman times, since Old Sarum, the original ancient seat of the House of Wessex (or, rather, Cerdic's tribe, the Gewisse, which also may have been a native Britonnic name) was originally a native Britonnic hillfort built in 400 BC. Funnily enough, Old Sarum is located near to Stonehenge. The House of Wessex eventually took over all the lands settled by the Angles, Saxons & Jutes, ie. England. They incorporated other Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses, too. William the Conquerer took over England himself because he claimed the last undisputed English King, Edward the Confessor (who was childless) appointed him as his heir and successor - which was true. William was also a relative of Edward - grandson of Edward's maternal uncle, Richard of Normandy. All the Germanic Kings & Royalty were related to each other. William the Conquerer married Matilda II, who was a member of the House of Wessex, & the Wessexes also fled into Scotland, marrying into their Royal line, which then also later married back into the Norman line via the marriage of Matilda of Scotland to Henry II. The Royal Family may have changed its names as various Houses rise or fall, but their lineage is unbroken going back, at least, all the way to Cerdic, who was himself likely at least half native Briton. A 1600-year lineage of native Royal rule. William the Conquerer insisted on maintaining as many pre-existing Anglo-Saxon traditions and practices as possible. Which he did. Swords are still used - the Sword of State, for example, or the swords used to Knight people. "Great Britain" is not the Latin name. "Great" is a Germanic word. "Britain" is also not a Latin word - it is a native pre-Roman Celtic word. It seems to have been the native Celt word for the Island itself, or the largest tribe at the time of the Roman invasions. The Welsh name for the Island is "Prydain", after all, which every linguist on the issue agrees is related to the word "Britain." The actual Latin word, Brittania, simply means "place of the Britons".

[@oddity4650]

Fairness - yet we have a non elected king and non elected house of lords. Cost of living - how can that king in his gold thrown talk about the cost of living when he is super wealthy and also gets tax funded sovereign grant of 80m what will to to 120m in 2026, it is like the movie idicocasy mixed with life of Brian✍️

[@oddity4650]

Keir looks upset or angry, i guess it is normal for secret anti-monarchists to be like thay while some king speaks 😂

[@EthansSmallHands]

He can't do anything

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Helpless

[@user-hl6th7ev9w]

Never have I heard so much shi*e. It looked like the King was himself reading that bs under duress.

[@thealmightyaku-4153]

Well, yes, that's the point: he literally has to read that out. He's not allowed not to.

[@JamesHardaker]

What would you have him say?

[@pinkifloyd7867]

@@JamesHardaker No longer allowed to express here on yours truly lol.... Don't you know by now ?

[@oddity4650]

Ha climate challenge... while he flys in his private jet to c20, he is a joke, i would be embarrassed if i was him, reading out this nonsense.

[@gathrightcrystal]

Hes more shiny fhan his queen 😎

[@HPugwash]

"strengthen the border" my foot, 2 weeks of labour has already seen over 1000 channel crossers

[@adrianpope3182]

Battenberg and Starmer. Linked by JS

[@astanfartin1647]

what a lot this man has on his shoulders... i don't think he has had an easy life. long live the King

[@DaleHanson-nw9yc]

Labour

[@TMGold60]

REFORM will be NEXT PM & before 2029!

[@TJTLY]

Total rubbish!!

[@onlythesongsilike4856]

he is reading a text writtien by labour so ..

[@user-gu8yp7kd7e]

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[@ericnicholson9944]

Room full of over paid entitled people

[@pinkifloyd7867]

The king's sheep supporters