Ah! That's what it's all about. I just thought we had a lot of Alice in Wonderland fans...
http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/alices-day/
You're bad. 
We stayed as a colony, just had our birthday, got no happy birthday,.
We send England
£500,000 each year. 
LarryD:
You're bad.We stayed as a colony, just had our birthday, got no happy birthday,.
We send England
£500,000 each year.
No. You send the UK government £500,000 each year. I don't see any of it.
£500,000 divided amongst 65 million people = 0.7 of a penny each.
I DEMAND MY 0.7p!
LarryD:
You're bad.We stayed as a colony, just had our birthday, got no happy birthday,.
We send England
£500,000 each year.
I can't find a reference to this. Can you provide a link? I'm curious. Are you Canada, Australia, or New Zealand?
Canada.
I was just kidding. 
Edit: Actually, with having the Governor General and lieutenant governors it is probably more than this amount.
LarryD:
Canada.
I was just kidding.Edit: Actually, with having the Governor General and lieutenant governors it is probably more than this amount.
You totally had me going. I could completely believe that Britain was still exacting tribute from one or more former colonies in an amount like that which has become so small because of all the inflation over the last 200 years that nobody has bothered to cancel it. In the 1700s that was probably real money even for a nation-state.
We were still paying off ww2 to the canadians until 2006.
The lend lease arrangement with the US was finally written off this year.