ANNIE blasts the royal family for living off the sweat of the UK taxpayer as the country's poorest fall further into despair.

IN a week that a child poverty report revealed the cost of pecuniary to the nation, it’s time to consider clamping down on our worst scroungers.

I am talking about the family who get the state to pay for their housing, their transport, their clothes and even food and drink.

Glasgow third worst city in UK for child poverty with cost to city nearly £400 million each year
While the rest of us sweat on the hamster wheel, we have to suffer tax-dodging parasites whose bank accounts are expanding as the rest of the UK tightens its belt.

The Coalition are right, that type don’t deserve our hard-earned cash.

And here we are awaiting the arrival of more of their offspring and another mouth for the state to feed. The royals really are shameless. Kate and Wills will have the world fawning over their new-born. Sycophants are salivating at the thought.

To large numbers in this nation, that child is more worthy, more deserving of attention than the thousands living below the breadline.

In Scotland alone, 710,000 people are living in poverty and 150,000 of those are children.

In front of them stretches a future dogged by social and economic ill, sub-standard health and education. For the majority, they are destined to be just another grim statistic.

For baby royal, a gilded carriage awaits to take him or her to a life of privilege beyond our dreams and we are paying for the ticket.

The cost to taxpayers of refurbishing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s new Kensington Palace home has hit £1million so far.

We are told that the apartment is not theirs but ours.

I recently met a homeless mother and child crammed into one room in a hostel, if only they had known they owned a palace.