https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/18/buckingham-palace-to-undergo-370m-refurbishment Buckingham Palace to undergo 'essential' £370m refurbishment Children In Need raised a record £46.6m last night (18/11/2016) all donated by viewers and/or fund raising events around the country. The pledging or donations of that money was our choice. The government has pledged £370 million of tax payers (that is us) money to repair and refurbish one house in central London and did not even bother to ask us the question as to whether we agreed with the expenditure. The residents of that house, already receive substantial sums of money from the taxpayers (that is us again), in the form of benefits and "expenses" payments to supplement their already considerable private personal income from various sources, family fortunes and wealth accumulated and passed on over many centuries. The government however is unable or more likely unwilling, to ...