Tuition hike protesters attack car carrying Prince Charles, Camilla

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by August

It ain't like Prince Charles just decided one day to go out shopping for new cars instead of fund the British education system.

Government paid college tuition is a far greater burden on the taxpayer than the trappings of monarchy. That 41.5 million pounds wouldn't even make a dent in paying for it.

That number is without security costs and "ceremonial duties". With those costs included it would be much higher, probably much closer to 100 million pounds, though the exact costs have never been disclosed for obvious reasons.
Anyway, let's take 100 million pounds as a reasonable guess. Divide this by the 2 million students in the UK and it would be 50 pounds (=€60=$80) a student a year. I agree this is still not extraordinarily much, but does this make this mass theft right?


EDIT: make this number twice as much (see Vendor's post below).

EDIT2: meanwhile in the Netherlands, some guy who has thrown a glass candle holder against the Dutch queen's golden (!) coach in early september has been in our heaviest security prison ever since (normally reserved for the really heavy guys), awaiting trial for *terrorism* sometime next year!