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If there's one thing better than a Royal wedding, it's a naff Royal wedding.

Bridesmaids getting blown over, Fergie trying a Royal walkabout, Kate Moss sitting there with a face like a smacked bum. Ruth and Eamonn, breaking off from their This Morning twittering duties to bestow a Royal wave on the bride as she drove past their holding facility, and the BBC discussing the bride's breasts, were particular highlights.

Despite unkind comparisons with the size of the crowds at Harry and Meghan's wedding, the bride managed a better dress and combined it with unexpected social activism - displaying scars from childhood surgery to straighten her spine. With one slash of silk, Eugenie lifted up the other 1.9million people in the UK with scoliosis.

Still, it's lovely to see two people get married isn't it? His nerves, her grin, their blind optimism. Throwing their lot in together, for better or worse, for richer and... well. The tiara might be borrowed but they're not likely to ever claim benefits, unlike a lot of those scoliosis sufferers.

Eugenie was 12 when her spine began to twist, and she got rapid surgery. The vast majority of cases affect adolescent females, and many have to wear a rigid plastic brace for 23 hours a day, for years, to stop it worsening. If it worsens, it causes problems with the heart, lungs, digestive system and other organs. It can be unbearably painful.

Most, when they ask the NHS for help as Eugenie did, go on a list. They wait. They hurt. Their parents or partners stop work. They apply for benefits. And they are turned down, like 11-year-old Charlotte Ormrod.

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Charlotte has a double curvature, a deformed hip, and needs a wheelchair. Her lungs have collapsed, the family home has had to be modified, and she's in hospital, on average, once a month.

She was refused Disability Living Allowance because she didn't need someone's help to stop her dying.

Her mum's been told Charlotte doesn't need a carer.

The bit of DLA that applies to people who can't walk is just £22.65 a week.

Charlotte would need to get it for 1,698 years to be as much of a burden to the taxpayer as the £2m police security at Eugenie's wedding.

We've had 8 years of being told that Labour's welfare state costs too much. That many scroungers are worse than a few high-spenders and that this is all a matter of choice.

That's why, a few months after negotiating their way into power in 2010, the Tories announced a benefit reform that would create "fairness and simplicity".

Iain Duncan Smith - for it was he - told the party conference the "genuinely sick, disabled or retired" had nothing to fear. He added: "We will crack down on fraud and help able people off welfare. This means we will have enough resources to provide peace of mind to the very vulnerable."

In 2010, we paid out £3.2bn due to fraud and error. Last year, it was £3.6bn.

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In 2015 the Major Projects Authority warned that setting up Universal Credit would cost £15bn.This year, the National Audit Office said it might never be value for money.

And it costs £699 to process each claim, which at the absolute maximum will net a single person over 25 years old £317.82 every month.

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Despite promising to save money, it cost more. Despite promising "enough resources" for the "very vulnerable", food bank usage shot up 52% in areas where UC was introduced. Despite promising peace of mind, UC has been blamed for suicide after suicide after suicide.

And despite promising fairness, UC is designed to be paid a minimum of 5 weeks in arrears, even though rent, fuel, food and council tax all demand to be paid in advance.

Someone designed it that way. They intended to give everyone on benefits - the sick, disabled, dying - more than a month of terror and debt for ideological reasons rather than any financial or social benefit to the nation.

Those who signed it off probably also think the wedding of a minor Royal is a sound state investment.

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They have never been disabled. In fact the things that are wrong with them which would render them unemployable in our world - innumeracy, lack of strategic thought, howling nationalist insanity - are the qualities which have propelled them to some of the most influential, and dangerous, positions in the land.

This is the party that voted through George Osborne's £5bn of cuts to UC. This is the party that has been told, for 8 years, that its flagship policy is an unworkable, amoral, tax sink. This is the party that applauded as its leader danced with joy, as they were warned it would plunge 3.2m people into Victorian levels of misery.

Gordon Brown said it would lead to millions of children going to school "ill-clad and hungry". That's not a reform. That's a crime against humanity.

So thank heavens for the first Royal wedding that showed the nation where the scar is.

By showing the human beneath the ermine, Eugenie did more to demonstrate the social injustice of Tory rule than any other Royal. She proved disability strikes anyone, that the rich can overcome it, and the problem with our nation is not who was given what by accident of birth but that more of us do not use those gifts wisely.

We have not appreciated our spines, or our welfare state. We have not considered that 3% of us could get scoliosis, or how we would cope with no money for 5 weeks and less than £80 a week after that.

Those of us who are numerate, empathetic and sane will be considering it now. The Tories, on the other hand, are telling charities defending UC claimants to sign contracts promising not to be mean to Esther McVey in case all of this ends up making her look bad.

With repeated slashes, they are destroying one of the most noble and needed projects our nation ever began. The Tories' greatest danger is the sort of warning Eugenie, from her position of influence, just shouted to the world. When she stepped out to marry the man of her dreams, everyone with scoliosis felt their toes twitch.

And for that kind of publicity, I'd say that £2m was indeed a sound state investment. It's a small price to pay for a Royal stamp of disapproval.