Tax funded comedy
The main, and possibly only, argument in favour of the Royal Family is of course that they provide us, their subjects, with endless amusement. This comes at a price, £36m if you believe their figures, and probably about £75m if you don't. Nevertheless many subjects would say £100,000 a day is worth it for the comedy.Yet contrast the Royals with the aborted name change of the Department of Trade and Industry. This too had only one thing in its favour, in that it was funny. But this only cost £30,000 for a day's humour. The government's efficiency drive needs to note these things.
posted by Matthew @ 6/22/2005 12:09:00 PM
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