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THERE are 160 oddballs in this country so obsessed by some American actress marrying a ginger bloke that they are being specially tracked by cops.

Cops paid for by us. Cops who mostly don’t have the time or resources to tackle pretty much any crime these days.

I’m very happy that said ginger bloke – or Prince Harry as he’s mostly known – has finally found love and is marrying Meghan Markle, but really?

Incredibly, there’s a special unit manned by police and psychiatric nurses that exists solely to manage royal stalkers. Cases of royal obsession have evidently soared since Hazza and Little Miss Sparkle announced their wedding. Isn’t it amazing how taxpayers’ cash can be miraculously found for some things and not others?

Meanwhile, we’ve got kids being shot and knifed on our streets on an almost daily basis. London’s Met admit they are struggling to cope with the 37 cases they’ve faced in the past two months. Fourteen in the last 20 days alone.

Yes the royals need protecting (mostly from themselves) but what about the rest of us? You can’t blame the poor sods who make up our thin blue line these days, they’re under the cosh more than ever. Money-saving cuts, mountains of paperwork and queues of politically correct do-gooders waiting to lynch them should they put a toe wrong. And you certainly can’t look the other way because the kids being killed are supposedly linked to gangs. The 17-year-old girl shot on Monday was an innocent bystander. Could’ve been any of us. Nor is it to do with that old cliché of skin colour – Rhys Jones being a poignant case in point. But, hey, the royal wedding will cheer us all up won’t it? Pubs will stay open longer meaning us plebs can get a little bit drunker and forget our woes. Oh please do patronise me some more, why don’t you? Of course no-one is suggesting that whether the royal knees-up happens or not will change much, but isn’t it about time we got our priorities right? Next month’s Windsor wedding means 4,200 police officers will have their leave cancelled. Which is shocking. I mean, who knew we had so many coppers left?