Perspective, Respective

Odd you may think this image on the day of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, but much of the talk over the last few days kept bottling down to £10 million being spent on it from the public purse.

Like most people, I thought "mmm, that is a bit steep".

Then I worked out through a very simple calculation:

The British population consists of 63.2 million. The funeral costed £10 million.

Divide £10 million by 63.2 million people and you get £0.16 or 16pence. If there are any mathematic geniuses out there can correct me then please do. I have done this over and over and I still get the above figure.

In short Maggie's funeral cost each one of us 16p.

I am not picking political sides, but this is just another perspective.

As for the funeral itself, I thought it went rather well.