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Another pay rise for the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-von Battenbergs

"Ooh look, everyone, it's raining taxpayer money again. Isn't one lucky?"

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 [...]

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 [...]