"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.
We had to laugh – even though it’s far from amusing.
Despite the touchy-feely ‘green tree’ image he’s trying to project, the Eton toff Cameron was never going to change the basic Tory animal from being a sleazy, moneygrabbing, self-seeking con-man.
Citizen readers are no doubt as shocked as we are by this revelation. Who’da thought it?! After months of revelations over sleazy upper-class Tory MPs defrauding the taxpayer over their expenses, you’d have been forgiven for assuming that all MPs would be whiter-than-white from now on, albeit with a few brown stains around the edges.
Nevertheless, it seems that well over a fifth of prospective Tory candidates who think they have a good chance of becoming MPs at the next election, are already working as lobbyists or public relations consultants on behalf of businesses and other interests. Would that be in exchange for money, do you think?
“Several acknowledged that they had set up meetings for clients with Shadow ministers, MPs and officials. More said that they had been asked to provide advice on the party’s direction. A few admitted to having pressed clients’ cases to Tory frontbenchers”, says the Times.
So much for Cameron’s promise to usher in a “new politics”. Once a party of sleaze, always a party of sleaze…
