What do you think of the Royal family ??

Posted by: mista h on 02 August 2012

Winkyincanada managed to put a few peoples noses out of joint with his Olympics thread,so i thought i would try and do the same !!!

 

MY VIEW is overall they are an expensive waste of space and if i had my way i would get rid of PDQ.

Even my other half does not agree with my views,but do i care !!

 

This is my breakdown(an these are MY views)

 

Queenie......about the only one in my opinion that has done a good job for 60 years.Move her into a small apartment and open up the whole of Buck Pal to tourists...the yanks wouls love it.

 

Phil......opens his mouth to often before slipping brain into gear.

 

THE KIDS

Charlie.....Anyone who likes talking to plants,well nothing more to say is their

 

The prince of golf.....Why should i take a £100 train journey when the tax payer will provide a £20,000 helicoptor.

 

Edward.....Joined the forces.....FAIL     Started a film company..........FAIL

 

Annie.....Not a bad old stick,but who the f does her 1920s hair style.

 

THE OFFSPRING

 

William...A likeable sort of chap,supposed to be a search & rescue pilot.    WHEN ??

 

Harry....Apart from staggering out of clubs at 4am what does he do ??

 

THE REST OF THE MOB

 

The prince of golf insists his 2 kids should get 24 hour Police protection....at the taxpayers expense.

Can someone tell me why we should pay. He wants em protected let him pay i say.

 

OTHER MINOR ROYALS    A total non starter a far as i am concerned

 

Mista H

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by JamieL_v2

I posted this in the Olympics thread, but it is just as relevant here:

 

 

The reply is from Colm Quinn, paraphrasing what Bradley might have said, it prompted this from Piers Morgan.

 

 

I think Piers has missed that point that, it doesn't matter who said it, the fact it is it is spot on.

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by Tog

For anyone with the misfortune to inadvertently see Mr Morgan's show on CNN it makes Keith Harris and Orville seem watchable by comparison - something I never thought that I would say.

 

Tog

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by Tog:

For anyone with the misfortune to inadvertently see Mr Morgan's show on CNN it makes Keith Harris and Orville seem watchable by comparison - something I never thought that I would say.

 

Tog

Tog, I've seen that show, read his pompous outpourings and have to conclude the man is an utter bellend. I'm really hoping he stays in America. Forever.

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by Wugged Woy
Originally Posted by Tog:

For anyone with the misfortune to inadvertently see Mr Morgan's show on CNN it makes Keith Harris and Orville seem watchable by comparison - something I never thought that I would say.

 

Tog

Tog,

 

Lay off Keith Harris and Orville - they were classic........

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by EJS
Originally Posted by Peter Dinh:
Originally Posted by BigH47:
Originally Posted by Peter Dinh:
 

A revolution is always good, and this is the truth if we look around - Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China, etc. and oh, I forgot Iran.

France, USA, and England are other examples which don't fit your doom examples of course. Or maybe they do?

The French Revolution (1789-1799) is the mother of all revolutions.

The french revolution did much to plant the seed of democracy throughout western europe and as of 1800, monarchy was never the same - although Napoleon and kin went on to do many good deeds, such as introducing right hand driving and the metric system, as well as proving that invading Russia in winter didn't tactically make a lot of sense. It was left to William III to accept the separation of the Netherlands and Belgium, but that just goes to show, some things take time.

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by Guido Fawkes

What has history got to do with anything? 

 

Main thing is why would we want to change for the sake of it when everything is coming up roses ... I mean who would have parachuted into the Olympic Stadium if we hadn't had a Queen ... what we would sing 25 times (hopefully more) at London 2012 ... it is now that matters ... Yesterday Has Gone. 

 

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by Peter Dinh
Originally Posted by Guido Fawkes:

What has history got to do with anything? 

 

Main thing is why would we want to change for the sake of it when everything is coming up roses ... I mean who would have parachuted into the Olympic Stadium if we hadn't had a Queen ... what we would sing 25 times (hopefully more) at London 2012 ... it is now that matters ... Yesterday Has Gone. 

 

The UK performance at London 2012 has nothing to do with the British Royal family? But you guys have done pretty well.

Posted on: 09 August 2012 by Wugged Woy

Aghh, history is so old-fashioned nowadays.

Posted on: 10 August 2012 by Gale 401
Originally Posted by Wugged Woy:

Aghh, history is so old-fashioned nowadays.

As the Floyd once said.

Here Today Gone Tomorrow Ahhhhhhh.

The rest is history, even this after i click the Submit Reply.

Posted on: 11 August 2012 by George Fredrik
Originally Posted by totemphile:
Originally Posted by George Fredrik:

Boring but correct ...

 

Without political excecutive power the British Royal Family provides stability simply because apart from a few Hampstead Champagne Socialist Republicans, it as a firm, unites the country.

 

And they have been responsible for a massive amount of reform in the face of the Barons and Capitalist who are not representitive of anything but their own interest in getting richer at everyone else's expense. 

 

ATB from George

I wonder George, what exactly about my last post is? Whatever that means. As it stands it's a bit of an unqualified comment and not very helpful at all. Every sentence I wrote? If that's the opinion of EJS than all I can do is wish him well to continue living blissfully in ignorance. I'd rather walk through life with open eyes and an active brain. It's what it was meant to do, think and question.

 

In any case I am not saying you should overthrow the royal family, hang them and distribute the money to the mob. How England, in this specific case, develops its constitution and political system is up to its people and changes won't happen over night anyhow. All I am saying, if you are brutally honest, than the royals, in any country, are remnants of the past and most certainly not representatives of a modern society. 

 

ATB

tp

 

Dear TP,

 

I can see why non-Brits might find us a bit quaint, occasionally misguided, terribly old fashioned and so forth, but if our system - Monarchy and all - was so unfit for purpose, then would the most lovely Olympic Games in memory have been possible. The British don't take themselves so very seriously. Part of a self confidence that comes from stability. This part down to a phlegmatic attitude, an unsentimental one that does not try to fix what is not going wrong ... etc ... But we have quite civilised and skeptical view that in fairly short order demolishes the pompous and empty, the pride ridden and the corrupt - by ridicule - the bankers will be brought back to size if not justice!

 

The Royal family has little to fear from the populace as a whole provided they don't go in for corruption, or fleecing the average Joe in the street. If they did, then they would soon loose general respect and fall.

 

ATB from George

Posted on: 12 August 2012 by JMB

Relating the successful organisation and management of the Olympic Games to the existence of the monarchy is a bit of a stretch. If you claim our successes are due to our system, quaint or not, then you must also allow that our failures can be similarly attributed. Only last year we had street riots.

 

The monarchy does seem to have the support of the majority of the populace - we shall never know of course as we have never been asked if we want it.

 

Those of us who find the whole royal edifice an irrelevance in the modern age and a pernicious influence on our society can only continue to say so when the opportunity arises. After all we have no formal way (the ballot box) to make our views known.