Yes, OK.
I plead guilty.
Update: if you don’t believe me, try this from the Mail:
It is hoped the ceremony will give a huge boost to the nation and the economy as crippling public sector spending cuts hit home.
Graham Smith, spokesman for Republic, a group campaigning for an end to the monarchy, said: "We mustn't see the government wasting limited resources paying for a major set-piece event … if people are being told to tighten their belts, if the government is making thousands unemployed, if welfare payments are being slashed, it would be sickening for the government to allow a single penny more to be spent on the royals at this time."
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Personally I don’t recognise the unelected impostor who has been installed as head of state without any of our consent – I think we should begin preparations for a British presidency as an elected alternative to challenge the status quo. I think Richard should run for president. A quality guy, he gets my vote any time.
@Howard
Well, if anyone wants to second that….:-)
@Howard
Hmmm, the Queen or Richard Murphy as Head of State?
I think I’ll stick with Liz, thanks.
Erm…who is going to police this event?
@RichardSM
The police?
@Tom Olver
No – we’re going to be 40,000 short of them
Perhaps loads of enthusiastic monarchists could volunteer to police this singularly uninteresting event; or better still, all those public sector workers whose jobs will have gone through no fault of their own can do so as part of ‘the Big Society’.
Seriously, I heard that the staging of the event will be done bearing in mind the economic austerity that will be gripping the country by then. Still, anything to distract people from the increasingly awful situation this government will be taking us into eh?
Football (if you can afford a ticket or a Sky subscription, that is), the X factor, and a royal wedding. Bread and circuses spring to mind.
The cost of policing argument is an economic non-starter: the wedding is going to boost the economy by £620m according to one report with sales of souvenirs etc.
@Oliver Martin
if 40,000 police aren’t there the argument has nothing to do with cost and everything to do with the fact that the ConDems are going to get rid of the police, come what may
yes, I am saying they are putting dogma ahead of any form of economic sanity