Ye gods, pfr, I also have to wait for the missus to get home from zumba, in my case before I can brew the coffee and toast the crumpets of a Tuesday morning... I have a feeling that post-zumba natter time extends the waiting...

Now 50p per head may not seem like a lot of dough. But that 50p is taken from me without my consent. If I check my Morrisons receipt and find that they've diddled me out of 50p by not applying the twofer offer, I go doolally bloody tap and harass the poor sod at customer services in order to get justice. I've been known to do it for 15p. I will not be cheated. I'm an atheist. I do not wish to contribute to the support of pastors, not in the slightest (though I may wish to contribute to the upkeep of tbe fabric of our churches, a very different thing). Suppose 50p was taken from me without my consent to pay for vestments or church candles or for the wages of the vicar. I'd go bloody ballistic. If you want to pay money for a royal bloody shindig, that's down to you. But you'd better pay my "share" while you're at it, because I, to say the least, am bloody unwilling.

That wedding cost 33 million quid. We taxpayers paid for almost all of it, and what we didn't directly pay for was paid for with money that was stolen from our ancestors. It's very disgusting.