The Royal Family is to be exempt from any cuts in public spending next year when its civil list funding is settled for the next 10 years, says The Guardian. MPs will be powerless to reduce the £7.9m a year paid under the civil list because of an obscure deal struck between Buckingham Palace and
Tories up to usual sleaze even before election
We had to laugh – even though it’s far from amusing. Despite the touchy-feely ‘green tree’ image he’s trying to project, the Eton toff Cameron was never going to change the basic Tory animal from being a sleazy, moneygrabbing, self-seeking con-man. Citizen readers are no doubt as shocked as we are by this revelation. Who’da
Time for change
After the disgusting example set by MPs’ expenses and the whole sleaze and corruption of Parliament, the EU, and our ridiculous ‘royal’ family, it really IS time to change the way we run our country. The same old system of divisive, two-party politics is wrong in the 21st century and only serves the interests of
Is our ridiculous monarchy needed any longer?
The British Citizen thinks not. See our own views here. And from just some of the comments below we’re not alone, so why on earth don’t we do something about it? Here are the thoughts from a wide range of people: writers, broadcasters, journalists, musicians, politicians, philosophers and others, taken from the current issue of








