Yes. The police, bomb disposal teams, close protection units, surveillance, snipers etc are all paid for from the public purse. I'd imagine back paying cancelled leave, or backfilling officers from other forces etc also came at a premium. I'd still nominated£2.5m is optimistic. It's not one day, 4 hours for 500 officers.....it's months of high ranking planning and liaising, it's weeks of inspecting sewers, vetting guests, it's days of inspecting and manning rooftops, placing barriers, getting people's transport sorted (1 chartered coach is £400 a day). If a football match is £150k, and that's in a static location with infrastructure I.e. cameras, routes and headcount then a far bigger location, more varied crowd, far longer duration etc of a royal wedding with multiple high value targets is going to be far higher.
Am not sure what you are looking for here....I'm nominating realistic consumption of effort to do the job, based on some logical thinking, and a touch of inside knowledge. I've also stated the cost of a resource is higher than their wage, around 35% for people with actual employment rights. Your application of critical thought seems to not stretch past the use of some long division, talented though it is. I'm still content to conclude £2.5m is low, unless they maybe discounted police wages and this was one off costs. The fact is that our discourse means absoloutely nothing in real terms, pleasant though it is.
The police weren't just protecting the happy couple, they were also protecting the onlookers, wellwishers and bystanders.
You are right they were protecting everyone, but the decision to do a royal tour of Windsor was that of the happy couple.
I still like the idea that the monarch is a back stop to a potential stupid parliament and House of Lords. Other democracies have a president..look what that gets them..
Right, lets have a 'should we have a president' on the list. Being bias I would vote for @Barry Haynes 'cos, even tho' he is slightly more right wing than Alf Garnet, at least we would have a laugh
What would his policies be though? A carp lake for every square mile of the UK? Free listerine for the Breath Lady? A 60 ft wall seperating us from Scotland?
That'll keep the "Devil's in skirts" out!! Or just ship them out to @Terrordales and he can hide them behind his pallets with everything else he's hiding!!!!
