What, like Trump?Quote:
Originally Posted by khmen
What, like Trump?Quote:
Originally Posted by khmen
God save the queen
‘Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02D2T3wGCYg
If you took the money it costs to run the Royal family and divided it equally among her subjects, the subjects wouldn't even have enough each to buy a bag of chips/crispsQuote:
Originally Posted by khmen
I think the Queen should invite Trump to visit. I'd like to hear what Prince Phillip says!
So what? Why should 70million odd people be forced to buy 3/4 of a bag of crisps for one particular family?Quote:
Originally Posted by VocalNeal
Afaic if the fetlock-tugging, tiny plastic flag waving, commerative plate buying monarchists wish to support an anachronistic irrelevant institution then let them opt into a tax to fund it, and relieve the burden from the rest of the population who disagree with their existence.
:D
Much as I like old Phil the Greek, the rest of the clan are a bit more than 'iffy', to say the least.
Even if it did cost the average tax-payer around 50p each to support them, wouldn't the money be better spent at funding free universities, or on the NHS?
The mouldering British aristocrats don't get the financial propping up that the royals get, yet still manage to stumble along, and the tourism industry only really got started recently in the last 30 years, so the big excuse of "look what they do for business" is a load of bollix,..except of course for the arms industry, which they partly own anyway.
They're a total waste of money and time, and Britain would be far better off as a democratic republic than as a constitutional monarchy.
Devolution of UK into several autonomous regions run by consensus governed assemblies, would get rid of the pan-national bi-polar Labour-Tory schism that divides British society and allow far more local and regionally independent voices to represent the people, again, by consensus, instead of a parliament of a bickering boorish barnyard of government ministers we now have running the country to their and their business and banker friends' benefit.
I think they are good/positive role models... sure, they have made mistakes, they are not perfect (no human is)... but I think their heart is in the right place..
I'm very proud of those 2 boys (Prince William and Harry). They lost their mother very young, but have still stayed on the reasonably straight and narrow - working with charity organizations, doing their bit to help the less fortunate.
We need more decent people in this fucked up world. Long live the Queen! :UK:
What does a bloke who has never worked a day in his life retire from ?
Mate haven't laughed so hard in weeks. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ENT
She was a dingbat anyway no great loss.Same as all royals,inbred retards and a waste of space.
555 ^ I get your point, Bobo.. I went through a rebellious period, rebelling against my very strict Christian Grandparents and their loyalty to the royal family...
I used to be on your side of the fence mate...I think public opinion is swinging towards your way of thinking and that the royal family and their institution will not survive too much longer. So you guys will have your wish in the end.
Till that day, I'm a loyal royalist 55... have a great day guys.. off to see my Nana, will ask her opinion on this... update soon.
The most dysfunctional of British families epitomizes what it is to be British (with considerable Germanic ancestry).
As a net gain to the country in financial terms, they are a welcome part of the British culture.
No other country in the world has such a stable democratic monarchy. Time to let Europe stand or fall on its own merits.
It was no accident.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobo746
Even all the powers in the land couldn't come up with an explanation of how and why the crash occurred.
She was an Ocker.Quote:
She was a dingbat anyway no great loss.Same as all royals,inbred retards and a waste of space.
Britain's not a democratic monarchy, but a constitutional monarchy, as are Oz and NZ who're still under the monarchic thumb.Quote:
Originally Posted by chassamui
There's no democracy there at all, only a divide and rule first past the post, winner takes all system of a goose-step oligarchy.
Let's not bring Buriramboy into this discussion.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobo746
I guess service in the Royal Navy from 1939 to 1952 doesn't count. He's also President/Patron of 780 organisations.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobo746
After leaving Gordonstoun in 1939, Prince Philip joined the Royal Navy, graduating the next year from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as the best cadet in his course.
During the Second World War, he continued to serve in the British forces, while two of his brothers-in-law, Prince Christopher of Hesse and Berthold, Margrave of Baden, fought on the opposing German side. He was appointed as a midshipman in January 1940. Philip spent four months on the battleship HMS Ramillies, protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean, followed by shorter postings on HMS Kent, on HMS Shropshire and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After the invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferred from the Indian Ocean to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet.
HMS Valiant
Philip served aboard HMS Valiant in the Battle of the Mediterranean.
Among other engagements, Philip was involved in the Battle of Crete, and was mentioned in despatches for his service during the Battle of Cape Matapan, in which he controlled the battleship's searchlights. He was also awarded the Greek War Cross of Valour. Duties of lesser glory included stoking the boilers of the troop transport ship RMS Empress of Russia.
He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant after a series of courses at Portsmouth in which he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the qualifying examination. In June 1942, he was appointed to the V and W class destroyer and flotilla leader HMS Wallace, which was involved in convoy escort tasks on the east coast of Britain, as well as the Allied invasion of Sicily.
Promotion to lieutenant followed on 16 July 1942. In October of the same year he became first lieutenant of HMS Wallace, at 21 years old one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy. During the invasion of Sicily, in July 1943, as second in command of HMS Wallace, he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a plan to launch a raft with smoke floats that successfully distracted the bombers allowing the ship to slip away unnoticed.
In 1944, he moved on to the new destroyer, HMS Whelp, where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla. He was present in Tokyo Bay when the instrument of Japanese surrender was signed. In January 1946, Philip returned to the United Kingdom on the Whelp, and was posted as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire.
^ Lazy bum. :rolleyes:
Rock on PP... put ya feet up lad... I'll put the kettle on. :)