At a time when many nursing and social work staff in the Bristol area face possible redundancy because of NHS cuts, isn't it rather nauseating to learn that the royal family will not experience any cuts and that ministers can only vote to increase their funding and not decrease it.

These are the same people who make such a show of visiting hospitals and the sick. Crocodile tears.

While many mental health and learning difficulty staff will be fighting for their jobs – and patients for their placements – over the next year, the royals will not be facing any cuts at all. Doesn't that make you feel angry? Why aren't the NHS managers fighting government cuts and being more vocal. The unions are a push over at present.

While the royals are living it up, people who have trained hard for their jobs will be losing them, their homes and probably families.

While the royals are living it up, clients will have to fight for their placements that are determined by a small minority of unelected people.

NHS funding panels have hard choices to make, but wouldn't it be nice to see some militancy among them, some affinity with staff and residents and some standing up to those shouting for cuts.

Wouldn't it be nice if those implementing these cuts and standing by them were named and shamed. The so-called "panels" making these decisions appear to be zombie like and mysteriously unknown to the general public.

This was brought about as a result of the selfish actions of the banking community. Unions, NHS management and staff should turn on them with venom.

And also on the Government for allowing them to repeat their greed unchecked.

Think how many jobs could have been saved if money had been taken from them and given to the NHS.

All the money used to prop up the banks should have been spent on public funding.

The bankers should have drowned in their own vomit.

If it makes you angry that these cuts will be taking place and you are worried that you could be losing your job and patients losing their services, then don't let it happen quietly.

And don't let the Royal Family have a laugh at your misfortune. It is pure mockery that the royals, NHS management and politicians have made feathered nests in which to weather the coming storm.

But the biggest joke of all for them is that the tabloid reading masses will probably approve cuts to services in their own stupidity.

An NHS employee, Bristol.