25.11.2010

Right royal

This is where you come in, says Robbie Rix

In addition to the £30 million the taxpayer will pay for the ceremony itself, the royal wedding, according to worried “business leaders”, will cost the “British economy” some £5 billion, because of the two holidays in the same week.

And I thought ‘the country’ was broke and had no alternative but to cut public spending. Well, no, some things are worth the money, aren’t they?

And it’s the same with leftwing publications - those that are proposing a clear way forward, based on the principled unity of the entire revolutionary left. In other words, the Weekly Worker - don’t you think a paper that pushes this key idea is worth the money not just to keep it going, but to make its message clearer and more widely read?

That’s where you, the readers, come in. Readers like HM and MM, who donated £25 and £5 respectively using our online PayPal facility over the last week (by the way, we had 12,092 internet readers last week). Then there were our regular standing order supporters who contributed £265 between them. But nothing at all came via snail mail last week.

So our November fighting fund has increased by £295 over the last seven days, taking our running total to £907. But there are only five days left to reach our £1,250 target - we need just short of £350. Please send in your cheques and postal orders as soon as you read this. Or, better still, get out that card and let us have your donation today via PayPal.

Help us reach our target and avoid finding ourselves in a right royal predicament.