Royal Yacht

Currently watching the Press Preview on Sky News.

Kevin Maguire from the Daily Mirror has just made an attack on the purchase of a new Royal Yacht, in what seemed an old-fashioned spiteful politics-of-envy spasm.

The project is to be financed by private donations, and the numbers are not great:

Eight people donating ten million pounds each; or eighty people donating a million pounds each; or a million people donating £80 each.

I am happy to pledge £80 to the Royal Yacht fund (and this is not taking money away from other good causes - I already give £70 a month to charities in direct debits and a further £14 a month to CAF for ad hoc donations).

Thank you Kevin Maguire for annoying me sufficiently that I am now motivated to support this fund.