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• #25502
Fuck the tourism argument.
The French decapitated their monarchy ages ago and that hasn't stopped anyone wanting to go to Paris.The tourism argument does not hold water. Now that Britain makes nothing the whole Warrant thing too no longer holds much relevance. Even with Monarchy the celemonial garb industry has been is free fall as the Army has downgraded its suppliers. Within the past 10 years a number of traditional companies have closed their doors. Companies like Holdsworth are still about but after collapsing, bit of a detour, management buy-out, and a focus on office and public transport fabrics. Robert Nobel is still about.. But P&J Haggarts have closed.. Nicol Bros closed.. In other areas.. traditional sporting companies like Hardy and Greys too have bit the dust.. Even icons like Twinings--- mixing English, tea-time and Royals in a cup--- have been seeing rough waters.. Royal Warrants don't seem to carry much lustre anymore..
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• #25503
spain and argentina joining forces to get us
Isn't this two countries who have economic problems trying to focus their respective publics on external issues?
The Falklands pre-date Agentina do they not? So why don't we claim Argentina, pointing out that we were there first.
EDIT just checked, Falkland Islands were claimed for the British Crown in 1766, Argentina was first established as a nation (subject to the Spanish Crown) in 1776.
Just to dredge the story so I can chuck my 2p in...
First, the couple of Spanish people I've spoken to recently see the clear connection with the recent corruption scandal and this being brought up again. The few older Argentinians I've spoken to realised perfectly well during and after the first war that is was a distraction. I don't think the politicians are fooling anyone.
Secondly, I don't understand how anyone can entertain Spain or Argentina's position. Surely everyone now agrees that old style colonialism is bad. In which case you push to make the territory independent, you don't say "we want it as our colony give it too us".
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• #25504
Oil and oil rights.
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• #25505
Surely all Britain has to do is fight fire with fire - 'If you put a £40 charge on anyone going to Gib, we'll put a £500 charge on anyone getting a flight to Spain. Step back or say goodbye to your one remaining industry'?
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• #25506
or even tit for tat start searching their cars / charging them £50 to enter
loads of spanish travel into gib every dayi think the spanish just want the cheap fags and booze available on the rock ... probably after the fish and chips too although those can be got down the coast in marbella
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• #25507
On Spain's economy there was an interesting story recently about the number of Spanish people working illegally in Spain.
I'll have a hunt for it.
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• #25508
Not sure how you can claim to know my physiological state as I type posts but nothing about these incidents and their would be retribution gives me a boner.
Now we're wondering if you've ever had a boner.
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• #25509
or even tit for tat start searching their cars / charging them £50 to enter
loads of spanish travel into gib every dayi think the spanish just want the cheap fags and booze available on the rock ... probably after the fish and chips too although those can be got down the coast in marbella
Yep. Definitely what happened with my lodger
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• #25510
^ probably. Equally though Spain is a massive European hub for drugs. Does she have dreads? If so then it's definitely justified.
Oh yeh and on the whole Royals thing. Just because you remove their political power, and continued state funding*, doesn't mean you kill them and remove them totally. You can still have them around, for tourism, send them off to do bits of diplomacy, allow them to keep plenty of their own money to continue to live.
I just think once the Queen dies the sensible route is to start winding down the whole thing. She's been great so lets quit while we're a head.
*including security for random ones nowhere near being in line for the throne.
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• #25511
No dreads, just a fairly average looking middle aged woman. But I suppose you can't be too careful. God forbid some drugs should make their way into this country. That will not do.
Don't really care about the Royals either way. They have some nice houses, I cycle past a couple of them on my way to work. They don't do me any harm. I'd sooner do away with my neighbours. The ones who start drilling at 8.00 on a Sunday morning. Fuck it, yeah, they can go on the list too
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• #25512
Don't really care about the Royals either way. They have some nice houses, I cycle past a couple of them on my way to work. They don't do me any harm. I'd sooner do away with my neighbours.
How do you feel about pandas?
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• #25513
No, both are just as useless, based on righteous indignation rather than facts. I took the calls for beheading a royal as a joke, though, whereas your posts had an undercurrent of deep seriousness, and, as wiganwill pointed out, frantic sexual energy.
Again, my posts are serious, there is no undercurrent regarding that but to see sexual energy in what I type? Well, each to his own I guess. I don't get my sexual kicks from posting crap on a bike forum
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• #25514
Pandas?
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• #25515
How do you feel about pandas?
His neighbours are pandas?
The monochrome bastards. How do they operate a drill?
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• #25516
Maybe they aren't the evolutionary dead end we thought they were?
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• #25517
Oh yeh and on the whole Royals thing. Just because you remove their political power, and continued state funding*, doesn't mean you kill them and remove them totally. You can still have them around, for tourism, send them off to do bits of diplomacy, allow them to keep plenty of their own money to continue to live.
I just think once the Queen dies the sensible route is to start winding down the whole thing. She's been great so lets quit while we're a head.
Winding down slowly is the right approach I think. Let them keep the ceremonies, Their property and land etc, but let them make it pay for itself more, rather than being funded. God knows they already charge enough to see the royal collection of paintings.
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• #25518
His neighbours are pandas?
The monochrome bastards. How do they operate a drill?
with their bear hands ?
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• #25519
Sounds like they've bamboozled Mike in terms of their identity with an ability to drill holes early on the weekend.
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• #25520
Winding down slowly is the right approach I think. Let them keep the ceremonies, Their property and land etc, but let them make it pay for itself more, rather than being funded. God knows they already charge enough to see the royal collection of paintings.
A few generations of paying inheritance tax, or any fucking tax at all for that matter, would help.
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• #25521
Winding down slowly is the right approach I think.
Yes, slowly wind the cunts down, face first, into a pit of slurry and bubonic plague.
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• #25522
Fingers crossed that this guy - double cyclist killer - gets a proper sentence this time around. It's been covered before, but the defence's assertion that “The sheriff is perfectly entitled to come to [the] view [that not wearing a helmet contributed to Audrey Fyfe's death]. He cannot be criticised” is both >>> Bike Radar thread and pretty insulting to her family.
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/judges-urged-to-jail-gary-mccourt-1-3043228
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• #25524
This thread remains my primary news source.
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• #25525
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23677205