Yebbut we have to pay for a prime minister, his entourage, security, etc., AND the bloody royals! As for the 30 million-plus we pay these benefits-scroungers par excellence, er, just remind me - who just happens to be one of the richest people in the world? As I type this, thousands of low-paid public service health workers are just finishing a token strike because they haven't had a rise for four years and the government has once again overruled their pay review body which had recommended a princely increase of one per cent. I know which lot are more use to us. The royals wouldn't know, as we pay them to not have to use the services of people like that.