Letters: Saving on the slices to fund a royal yacht
Education secretary Michael Gove’s call for a new royal yacht to mark the queen’s diamond jubilee is grotesque (Give Queen a new royal yacht for the jubilee says minister, 16 January). It’s impossible to believe that Gove could think people would support such a move, let alone see a £60m price tag as money well spent, in the midst of the economic crisis.
Monday’s Guardian was packed with examples of just how broken Britain is. Amelia Gentleman’s article (Below the breadline: the harsh reality of life on Liverpool’s workless estates, 16 January) on mass unemployment in Liverpool, the city top Tories wanted to abandon to its fate in the 80s, showed the poverty and despair that the government’s cuts are causing.