Letters to the Editor

£82.6 Million PA
Dear Sir,
According to “The Times”, the £6.2 million addition to what we the people already pay Her Majesty, will bring her ‘salary’ up to £82.6 million pa. With regard to Sir Alan Reid’s comment that this £82.6 million annual payment is “Excellent Value for Money”: this is a complete nonsense. There is no job so demanding as to regard this vast sum as suitable recompense.   And Prince Phillip’s retirement pension of £359,000 per annum is an insult to every pensioner in Britain struggling to survive on a paltry pittance. Not only should the Queen turn down this £6.2 million a year raise: she should tell the government that she will take no pay of any sort for the next ten years, or at least until Britain has settled its £1.9 trillion national debt.