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Brits puzzled by exponential costs of the royal baby: Analyst

Thursday, 18 October 2018 2:31 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 18 October 2018 3:37 PM ]

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex walk on South Melbourne Beach where they met community groups in Melbourne on October 18, 2018. (AFP photo)

An independent political analyst from London says people in Britain and elsewhere cannot understand why the birth of a baby in the royal family should have such exponential costs.

Adam Garrie told Press TV in an interview on Wednesday that people in Britain have found it hard to believe how the birth of a baby in the royal family should incur so much cost on the public expenditure.

“One would think as human beings being the human beings, they all have the same DNA,” said Garrie, adding, “every procedures including the child delivery has the same inherent complications and challenges, I fail to see why the birth of one such baby should cost much more exponentially than anyone else’s.”

Reports earlier this week suggested that Prince Harry, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, and his wife Meghan Markle, were expecting a baby in the spring of 2019. Anti-monarchy campaigners have estimated that the birth of the baby would cost the taxpayers around two million American dollars.

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Garrie said, however, that taxpayers in Britain should be more concerned with the money they have been paying over the years to enable the British government to launch wars on countries around the world.

“The broader question though is well people are discussing this, why aren’t they discussing billions spent on war every year, that’s the much bigger scandal,” he said, adding “why they are not talking about the exorbitant cost of going to war in foreign land?”

The expert said Britons have never approved of their government’s decision to launch devastating wars on countries in the Middle East, in South East Asia and elsewhere. However, he said, that the British government continues to fund wars on other countries with the taxpayer money.

“but politicians that they (people) elect continue to spend more and more money on killing people,” Garrie said.

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