Royalty

Town Crier. Whole new levels is absurdity

I don't know if people are aware of this, but a royal visit to your town costs the local counciltax payer twenty thousand pounds an hour, in what is called a 'security charge'. This excludes any additional local policing expenses. This money is paid directly to the family. It is why they do the visits in the first place, thirty million plus a year just isn't enough.

No I don't and I'm not a Royalist. This hype around the birth is absurd.

I said The Queen and Prince Phillip have worked hard in their jobs and for a long time - who do you know who's worked and been in the public eye for over 60 years?

We each have an opinion on what constitutes work - for some it's walking down a catwalk, acting in a movie, being a parent...

Unless you've been witness to somebody else's work you can't know what it actually entails.

What I objected to most was people on here wishing for another human being to die. That just made me so sad.

I am with you Miss Mouse on this one. Along with the silent majority in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and half of bloody France. Talk about fawning. The French I work with (also the Poles, Germans, Russian you name it) have been going on about it for weeks and weeks. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. My beautiful girl is a socialist who works in an inner city school with autistic mostly immigrant children and she would abolish the Royal family in an instant. Me though I am a Royalist. It part of where I come from, my history, my culture and my identity, and as to saving money well I'd abolish Elton John.

i'm glad the bbc let us hear what all the other fucking news organisations were saying about the royal birth
germany it ez ein boy
spain ondaleh ondaleh eet iz a senor
france mon dieu c'est un boy
iran / north korea ... death to the infidel ... boy
that tribe from south africa that speaks in clicks click click click click boy
'merica well we're pretty sure it's either a boy or a girl

thanks for rounding all that up bbc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23413359

Royal baby: America swoons for palace fairytale

do we give a fuck?

They didn't want the royal family in the first place.

They can't change their mind now.

do I give a fuck?

ftfy

Wait.....there's been a birth? Who, when?

#bovvered

They didn't want the royal family in the first place.

They can't change their mind now.

They are welcome to take them off our payroll. Take the shit castles as well please.

Have to say that the ease at which their jobs appear to be capable of being performed by two very old people raises for me the question as to how difficult those jobs are in the first place.

I think they are reinsurance lawyers.

ROYAL FACTS: The queen is a massive fan of It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Never the Twain, and as a mark of respect to her William and Kate are naming the baby after this man:

Rumours are circulating that the reason for the long delay between birth and announcement was that baby no. 1 was ugly, so they had to swap it for someone else's.

They should call him Mohammed as a gesture to relieve tensions against the Muslim population

Lot's of 'well wishers' outside the palace this morning

Rumours are circulating that the reason for the long delay between birth and announcement was that baby no. 1 was ugly, so they had to swap it for someone else's.

i heard they were removing the extra fingers and toes

Is this royal baby malarky something to do with the this weather, and perhaps the end of days?

cos if so, i might sack work off today.

I am with you Miss Mouse on this one. Along with the silent majority in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and half of bloody France. Talk about fawning. The French I work with (also the Poles, Germans, Russian you name it) have been going on about it for weeks and weeks. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. My beautiful girl is a socialist who works in an inner city school with autistic mostly immigrant children and she would abolish the Royal family in an instant. Me though I am a Royalist. It part of where I come from, my history, my culture and my identity, and as to saving money well I'd abolish Elton John.

Get a grip of yourself man. How would abolishing Sir Elton save any money? He's paid tax here for years, unlike the Royals who only relatively recently started to contribute.

Yes, leave Elton out of it. He may be a fabulously wealthy, gin-soaked old queen, but at least he became one through his own merits.

Evian-soaked these days.

Soaked in summit, but it ain't evian.

Get a grip of yourself man. How would abolishing Sir Elton save any money? He's paid tax here for years, unlike the Royals who only relatively recently started to contribute.

As you'd expect, not all of them seem to appreciate doing this (sorry for Daily Mail link):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2364231/Prince-Charles-paying-lower-rate-tax-servants.html

I have recently had a discussion with an American who chided me for not being excited about the royal birth. I explained that I found the whole thing depressing. She responded by saying that it was a whole lot better than what they had in the US. There, apparently, they have the Kardashians. She said that the British royal family was infinitely better than them. I asked if the Kardashians had their pictures on all the stamps, bank notes and coins of the US and whether they had the power to veto legislation. Apparently they do not. My American friend suddenly understood my constitutional concern. Big on constitutional issues are the Americans.

maybe we should start campaigning against the kardashians too
they're lizards too right ?