Good work from the spin doctors at the Palace.
Call it 37.4 million and it sounds like an obscene amount of money, call it 62p each and it sounds not worth bothering about.
Are the police protecting an ex-prime minister running up bills of 250K? Well, just divide it by 60 million and your problem goes away, because then it is 0.4p each, who can possibly miss that to uphold democracy.
Are the public getting annoyed that Jonathan Ross earns 6 million a year - just tell them that it is 10p each, and then ask them how bothered they can be to get irate about it.
Whether they're missing the point or not, a lot of people consider it wrong for a bunch of people to be funded by the taxpayer (regardless of how much it is when you divide it by 60 million), just because of an accident of birth.
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