"Ooh look, everyone, it's raining taxpayer money again. Isn't one lucky?"

The Royal Family is to be exempt from any cuts in public spending next year when its civil list funding is settled for the next 10 years, says The Guardian.

MPs will be powerless to reduce the £7.9m a year paid under the civil list because of an obscure deal struck between Buckingham Palace and the Treasury in 1972 when the current legislation governing royal finances was drawn up.  (Under the Tories, by any chance?  Oh yes – it was that old tosser, Edward Heath.)

Palace officials made clear earlier this summer that they are actually seeking a rise in the annual civil list payment to cover “increased costs” despite the fact that they currently have a £21m surplus in the reserves on the civil list account. Wonder what the interest is on that, ma’am…?

What a bunch of spongers.

Time to make them all redundant like a large number of us seem to be at the moment.

We hope they’ll have the good sense to go  before they’re pushed,  Oliver Cromwell-style.

We don’t need them and the morally disgusting values they represent.