People this is 100% satire.

It’s sensible of the monarchy to acknowledge these straitened times by not shoving too many ingots down Charles III’s impecunious subjects’ hire-purchase widescreens. The economy is tanking, millions are frightened, poor and getting poorer and the King is showing that he gives a damn, something the government seems startlingly unable to do.

It makes me suspect that our situation might improve if we restored absolute monarchy. On current evidence, it’s a more functional arm of the state than parliamentary government. At the last election, our flailing voting system gave the public a choice between a promiscuous liar and an extreme socialist, both of whom split their parties, and we’ve ended up being governed by neither of them anyway. Instead, we’ve got a leader voted for only by a handful of rightwing club members, who manifestly lacks the confidence of the public.

Democracy and meritocracy are of course far preferable to royal autocracy, but Truss’s administration has no democratic mandate and displays no merit. Charles III seems to have just as much right to tell us what to do and could scarcely screw things up any worse.