Quote Originally Posted by Doucas View Post
14 million in poverty, every public service failing, but we have pomp which makes everything better.

Utter embarrassment on the world stage, only the elderly care.
From this thread I take it that you aren't of age (it creeps up very quickly) I'm not an anti royalist or pro royalist and wish it ended when Liz popped her clogs, i think you make a very valid point on the obscene cost of this and every occasion like this, I don't have a counter argument, and my only observation would be that without this event there would still be 14 million in poverty. Poverty isn't a single issue problem.