howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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this surprised me at first but thinking about it i can see the logic.
the public at large are fed up and distrustful of politicians and elite greedy people so the monarchy would be seen as a rock to rely on.
added to that we don't get so many lurid stories about them nowadays.
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The royal family, 'popular'??? Where is their competition? ER is well respected and relatively untouched by scandal, the young-ins...well the young know it all, except, that they don't. But, in this real world where boy-bands, 'slappers' and androgynous males are all the rage (with the young)...wow!
All these current shenanigans have dragged me to wonder if anybody who has ever thought dressing as a Nazi is worth status of any sort.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1
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your last two lines tom was tried by a conservative didn't go down to well
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Weird Granny Slater
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I would follow the King who said to the portrait artist:
'You have demeaned God and my Office. You will suffer a hanging, a drawing and a quartering, and your head will top a pole on the Bridge. I will show you the meaning of red.'
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Captain Haddock
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Channeling Clementine Churchill today?
Philistine! (Though the butterfly is a bit silly)
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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While modern art is rubbish, contemporary art is rubbisher.*
*Also applies to British monarchs.**
**Also applies to pretty much everything else.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I wonder how much support there really is for the costly royal family and all the hangers on???
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Terry Nunn
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Not from me Keith.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Support for a wider royal family is a manufactured (exportable) spectacle of Britain as a nation which honours its history and its traditions. [Fact: it doesn't.]
Support for a monarch, on the other hand, is genuine and high.
Burying the latter under the former in a managed media discourse is how you will eventually be fooled into throwing out the King with his bathwaters and replacing him with someone like Sadiq Khan as president.
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Button
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Or, heaven forfend, with a "World King".
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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It is difficult ,they are costly
But what would you have instead is the problem
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:Or, heaven forfend, with a "World King".
Despite his innumerable qualities and vaulting ambition, Mr Khan would surely be a mediocre candidate.
But I could get behind someone with the immense willpower, supreme physical courage, clear-eyed strategic vision and personal charisma of, say, Ed Miliband, Iain Duncan Smith or that woman who does high streets.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Surely the problem is the lack of input from the public, our sovereign being chosen by an accident of birth?
Imagine the interest if, to coin a phrase, 'It Could be YOU'?
Having had our 'People's Princess' cruelly murdered by the late Duke of Edinburgh and MI5, here is the opportunity for us to crown a People's King.
It could be run like a cross between The Apprentice and Britain's Got Talent (sic) with contestants competing annually on prime-time TV to be Sovereign For A Year and eliminations by telephone-voting (calls will not cost more than 50p but make sure you have the bill payer's permission).
Weekly they could be set tasks such as 1. Court the most vacuous virgin in the Kingdom 2. Obtain a place in Oxbridge with crap qualifications. 3. Pontificate at great length an a subject you have no expertise in without repetition, hesitation or deviation.
The presenter should be some respected titan of industry like that bloke who runs Iceland who keeps on appearing on Question Time.
The winner would have one whole year of being dressed in uncomfortable outfits and being driven/flown around the country to dine with various inconsequential worthies and use lavatories that smell of fresh paint.
At the end of the year the winner should hand over the crown to the new 'sovereign' as they used to do so movingly in the excellent Miss World Contest, ideally dressed for the swimsuit-round, in a one-piece red, black and white underwired bathing costume, showing solidarity with the trans community in Gaza as well as his or her décolletage.
I suspect the revenue from the advertising breaks during such a program, licensing deals and the 50p call fee would more than pay for the Royal Family.
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Jan Higgins
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Who would you rather have ?
A person who is moulded from birth to be a figurehead for the UK or some self serving politician like Trump or even Abbott who is there possibly for the dubious power and glory. I am no royalist but I know who I would choose.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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There is a way: William raises an army, 'encourages' Charles to abdicate (in a final face-off at Kew Gardens), forces Lords and Commons at swordpoint to legislate an absolute monarch, then to dissolve themselves into nothingness and proceed to The Tower (50 to a room - imagine the smell), confiscates their lands and assets (to be re-distributed to benefit needy pensioners in fading seaside towns), sentences them to crawl about on their knees to their last days (politicians, not pensioners), kicks Justin Welby into the long grass and appoints an actual Christian as Archbishop, then slaps the country repeatedly about the face (not just metaphorically) until contact with reality is re-established.
Millions would follow.
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:kicks Justin Welby into the long grass
Trust the plan.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
I am with you on the small choice that is there, but if we just had a few to pay for rather than so many it might go down a little better
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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I see Andrew is in the soup once again.
Always thought he was a Wong'un.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Still gets some events
Cut him off altogether
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