Friday, June 24, 2005

The things Daily Telegraph readers say!

The whole gamut off Monarchist twaddle is out in the Daily Telegraph. First the completely irrelevant:

Dear Sir,

I wonder what the cost of the helicopter was when Prince Andrew quite voluntarily placed himself in peril and helped to supply the British forces in the Falklands,

Yours

Wallace Dubabney, Surrey


Then the 'don't scare the horses' approach:

Sir,

Isolating the £380,000 cost of a charter flight by Prince Charles is potentially imisleading and inflammatory....I am quite sure that the Royal Family are subject to intrusive levels of scrutiny over their spending and I am also sure that he resultant 61p cost per person across this country represents fantastic value for money. Please let us not cause alarm where it unnecessary, or further undermine a valued national institution.

Yours

Iain Saker, Dorset