
The launch of the Channel 4 programme Benefits Street has stoked growing dissent among a certain clutch of the British public over those on welfare.
However shouldn't our anger and attention be drawn towards the ultimate scroungers - the Royal Family?
While my colleague has already at length revealed the reasons why Benefits Street misrepresents UK welfare and unemployment, shouldn't growing or even misplaced anger be directed at those who automatically claim millions of pounds in funds for just existing and being born into a family that are deemed worthy of being looked after by the state?
While the left-wing press has written reams of copy on the public's hypocrisy - loathing those on welfare despite fawning over the ultimate royal cash-suckers - it is worth noting that at a time of austerity and the 'cost of living crisis' that Queen Elizabeth II and Co. are failing to justify their own state handouts.
Royalists have proverbially patted the Queen on the back for 'tightening' her belt and receiving 'only' ?31m (?38m, $51.4m) a year, from the ?73m she used to get in 1991.
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