Difficult to defend but I love a challenge. £40m is a lot of money. You can get a premier league footballer for that. Then its not that much when you look at things like US elections. Not enough to buy you a mayor or a senator. Of course this is not public money. These are corporate donations by well meaning companies that just want the right person in charge. No expectations of pork barrel bills or govt contracts, so youre not footing the bill are you? Just billions of dollars to put a draft dodger in the west wing. Who can make tax changes for rich people.
How much does it cost for the upkeep of things like the washington monument? I heard it was $9m per annum. What happens to that money? Well it`s spent on staff and contactors who then epend their money around. Well what happens to the royal weding money? Exactly the same. most of it will be secuity and staff, just moves the money around. You have your heritige we have ours. This event has the whole world looking at us for what you could get a local DA elected.