Royalty

Will there be a public holiday for the funeral?

Will Giggles be a pallbearer?

Luckily, I have broad shoulders.

Chips? A green grocers, more like.

The Queen has just been charged with doping. Down with the monarchy!

Sorry, wrong thread.

Andy (I'll now leave the ne'er-do-wells alone, and have a discourse with more enlightened people - though we respect each other for our differences)..........

Years ago, a little lady was sent from Grenada to the UK. Her mission? To report to Buckingham Palace. Her punishment? To receive an MBE. That was in the days when people had to do something remarkable to earn such a recognition, and not just sweep streets, as John Major had it changed to.

This lady was a school teacher. But it was not teaching that brought her to the attention of others....it was her fight against the authorities.

It was her view, that back in the 1950s, it seemed very unfair, that children had to go to adult prisons.....as there were no children's prisons in the Caribbean. She fought with words......letters to people that might be sympathetic.....and after much time....she won. A Child Court was set up, and the associated detention facilities also.

I'm related to her. Its little things like that, that matter, to an almost invisible people, on a tiny island, far away. We older West Indians, are nearly all Royalists. Ask around.

EDIT:
That little lady received her gong in 1961.....for her political efforts in the 1950s.

Are you really including Jamaicans?

The Queen jumps on the bandwagon.

but doesn't jump on her foffa

The Queen jumps on the bandwiggin.

Fixed.

but doesn't jump on her foffa

Is that her pet name for Prince Philip?

At le dole earlier, in between copping free interview techniques from an adviser troubled by my wandering eye, my head bobbing to and fro like a nodding dog, looking at nothing in particular while she talked of I know not what, we decided to use her computer for something other than their usual purpose.

Normally they're used for nothing but fiddling their infernal database - 'Rip-Off version 3' I think it is. She was visibly cheered to find she'd have to use Google, so expanding her horizons. I suggested I use her computer to access my email, to save her the trouble of unnecessary searching. This is not allowed, for only advisers can use the computers. Reason? They all belong to Her Majesty.

No joke. Claimants are off-limits - presumably advisers have special dispensation, or maybe the Queen is creaming in more JSA than I am, and is rightly concerned the embittered realise this fact and become mutinous. Swans and all Social-Security computers. Leave something for the rest of us, ma'am.

stolen from tester

http://www.theonion.com/articles/queen-elizabeth-to-think-mainly-about-her-approach,28963/

So it seems that the Queen and the Prince of Wales do do quite a bit of ruling, it's just that it's all kept secret... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19959233

awaits the arrival of ga2g & missmouse

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RULING

• Under the "tripartite convention", the monarch has right, and duty, to "be consulted, to encourage and to warn the government"
  
• This ensures a "measure of influence" is retained for the monarch within the constitution
  
• Under the "education convention", the heir to the throne has the right to be instructed in the business of government
  
• "Advocacy correspondence" allows the Prince of Wales to understand the business of government and strengthen links with ministers, ahead of becoming monarch
  
• Without confidentiality, ministers and the prince will feel inhibited in exchanging views
  
• There is a risk that, if the prince is seen as disagreeing with government policy, it will damage his position of political neutrality
  
  
  
  

WTF - if the prince disagrees with government policy then of course he is not politically neutral. So this will not damage his neutrality as it would not exist.

Has Philip not died yet?

Why does he need to prepare to rule. He will be 80+ when his mum pops her gilded clogs and totally gaga, even more so than he is now. Surely they will just lock him in the attic or something.

The queen will never die.

I reckon Elton'll keep going too.

Why does he need to prepare to rule.

It keeps him quiet.

Quite a wonderful little juxtaposition on the Evening Standard front page:

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Getting a bit friendly with Camilla?

now the royal womb has spilled the beans that the new child / head lizard is a girl do you reckon they'll do something to get rid of it ?

now the royal womb has spilled the beans that the new child / head lizard is a girl do you reckon they'll do something to get rid of it ?
I dunno - It's going to be quite difficult getting even the paparazzi to chase a foetus through a road tunnel in Paris.