I've just seen a headline on the Sky News website that says the tax payer funding of the Prince of Wales has GONE UP by 17.9%. Charlie now costs over 1.25 million with over £200k EXTRA lavished on him this year. I'm furious about this.
During the run up to the debates before the General Election all three party leaders offered small examples of cuts they would make. They interviewer would then say that this tiny cut wouldn't solve the debt problem. They would then give a few more examples and then the interviewer would make the same point. It was frustrating as a viewer because it was abundently clear that there wasn't one big cut that would solve everything. The only way to solve the defecit was to make hundreds of thousands of cuts and make sure that everything the tax payer funds would have to be make savings.
The cuts are painful, new schools have been axed meaning kids are still learning in portacabins. Police men and women are been laid off, Day centres for the elderley are closing. Some of these decisions are extremely difficult and hard.
So why does the Prince of Wales get more cash, he is not a frontline service! why does he not need to tighten his belt as every other public service does? He is a multi miliionaire landowner who can afford to pay his own way. I'm sorry this is a very bad decision - it gives the impression that the rich are immune from the effects of the cuts, and maybe this is because they are.
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