The wedding is finally upon us. Serviced offices and commercial properties across the world will be left empty, as we gather around TV sets to wish the couple well.
Everyone in Britain will be watching, well except for the loony left anti-royals with their unbelievable one sided spurious argument.
Campaigners today said taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for a lavish Royal wedding. The cost of providing security for the nuptials is expected to run into millions of pounds, at a time when police budgets are extremely stretched.
Anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, said Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding was a ‘private matter’ and it would be ‘sickening’ for the Government to spend ‘a single penny more’ on the Royals.
Spokesman Graham Smith said: ‘It is not for the taxpayer to pay for any part of this event, the Windsor’s must cough up…Inevitably there will be additional security arrangements for the wedding, but that must be paid for by the Windsor family from their own personal fortunes, not by taxpayers who are experiencing sweeping spending cuts. Adding, ‘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.’
Smith believes that, spending public money on this wedding or affording it any special status would be no more appropriate than if it were Ed Miliband’s wedding and that the wedding should be a private occasion.
Estimates vary hugely, but let us take the top estimates of cost and say that the wedding is going to cost the tax payer around £100,000,000. That’s a lot of money. And let’s insist that the royals pay for it themselves.
Now the loonies are happy. But wait, The Economist has estimated that the wedding will create approximately £360,000,000 in consumer sales and an extra £400,000,000 in tourist revenue.
That’s almost £800,000,000 so if the royals paid then should they receive the profit? That would be about £700,000,000. Not bad for a day’s work.
I say good luck to them.
