Originally Posted by exRAFRadar
Festivities. We expect £25 million to be spent on food for 4.8 million people, who will join in the mostly local and informal festivities and parties, including those in back gardens. Increased spending on alcohol is expected to amount to £62 million. Three million bottles of champagne and sparkling wine will be opened to celebrate the new baby. Few organised local events will be held, but there can be plenty of informal celebrations, both barbeques and in public houses.
And I suppose that if Georgie hadn't been born none of those "4.8 million" people would have consumed food and drink "on British soil" on the days in question?
That is exactly your point I believe... that they are rolling spending that would have happened anyway into the "benefits of the Royal Birth".