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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,026
Glum times for Witney then!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,856
Often wonder about unelected people and view points'
We can't actually vote them out lol
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John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
Just like the European Commission eh!
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,921
Nothing personal about Brenda but Cromwell had the right idea. The whole concept of a 'royal' family in 2016 is a bit pathetic for a developed country apart from being a warning to the rest of us about the dangers of inbreeding. (It is no mere coincidence that Sandringham is in Norfolk.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
£46m raised by the public for Children in Need...in the meantime, the royals get £370m of tax-payers money for house renovations. 21st Britain.
Out of interest, I wonder how much people would voluntarily donate to the royals in a telethon.
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
Playing Devil's Advocate, would you like to see any of our historical buildings (regardless of who uses or lives in them) fall down through neglect.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I have no problem with renovations to the Palace of Westminster being funded by the taxpayer. Buckingham Palace has a lot less heritage and is not as stunning to look at and I think the Queen should contribute towards the renovations out of her private fortune.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Jan Higgins wrote:Playing Devil's Advocate, would you like to see any of our historical buildings (regardless of who uses or lives in them) fall down through neglect.
Personally speaking, the money is raised by the people and should be spent in their interests. Whilst this might also incorporate having palaces in the interest of architectural importance, I would rather for the money be spent on infrastructure for all and not the few.
As a side note, the actual palace is in good repair, it is really the 'below stairs' quarters behind the facade that need repairing and moderning. How long have the employees had to live in squalor yet work in the polar opposite? Perhaps the royals should be privatised!
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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The Palace of Westminster isn't fit for purpose. It should be a visitor attraction and a new parliament should be built that would sensibly house and seat all the MPs. That said, you could abolish the Lords, knock through into that chamber and make it fit for purpose.
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:I have no problem with renovations to the Palace of Westminster being funded by the taxpayer. Buckingham Palace has a lot less heritage and is not as stunning to look at and I think the Queen should contribute towards the renovations out of her private fortune.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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The Royal family is the government that takes over when you elect a government the rich don’t like.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Keith Bibby wrote:The Royal family is the government that takes over when you elect a government the rich don’t like.
On paper...in reality, it's Whitehall.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
As one cries off they wheel in this Barrow cove to sort things that clearly go over the head of Cruella.
http://news.sky.com/story/sir-tim-barrow-profile-fearless-diplomat-who-stood-up-to-putin-10718171Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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I hear that Ivan Rogers, who of course 'resigned of his own accord', received a bottle of whisky and a revolver in the Diplomatic Bag as long ago as last October.
Rogers was of course a Balliol man, a college which seems to be an English version of the École Nationale D'administration, churning out other Europhile clones like Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath and Woy Jenkins, who spent their whole careers doing what they thought was 'best for us' by entrapping us further and further into the great European experiment in social(ist) engineering whether we wanted it or not.
Barrow is one of the few FCO mandarins who has so not 'gone native' in post and has EU experience 96, 98, 03 & 05. Good call Cruella!
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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There are two forms of resign, genuine and go before pushed, and in this case I suspect the latter much like the Captain.
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Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
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Jan Higgins wrote:There are two forms of resign, genuine and go before pushed, and in this case I suspect the latter much like the Captain.
Do you think so Jan? This bloke had been threatening to resign since the referendum, sounds to me like he skulked off in a huff.
Good riddance I say.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,796
Yes David, if I was being pushed out of a high paying cushy job I would be in a huff as well.
I doubt he will be missed by anyone apart from the EU high ups going by their reported sorrow at his demise.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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No doubt Lord Marland is right about not having the skills set but then nobody else has. There is no text book written as no other Member State has left so whoever does the negotiating has to learn the hard way. Interesting that Nigel Farage is against the new appointment.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-negotiations-lord-marland-theresa-may-whitehall-skills-boris-johnson-david-davis-a7510576.htmlBrian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
brexit,no plans so far,so non exsitant ,,,less than 8 weeks before the end of march.
conclusion,,,we not leaving Europe we are staying in,
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Brian Dixon wrote:brexit,no plans so far,so non exsitant ,,,less than 8 weeks before the end of march.
1) Place EU citizens under same immigration control as non- Commonwealth citizens.
2) Negotiate as advantageous trading relationship as possible with EU (The same as every other country in the world from Afghanistan to Zaire has somehow managed to).
3) That's it.
I really don't see what all the pointless wittering here and elsewhere is about. Which bit is difficult to understand?
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