badgerx16

Mersey ( I assume DSM is referring to Ferry )

Why is this case any different to any of the Tory MPs 'outed' by the Telegraph's reporting last year ? How many of them are now in the Cabinet ?

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I would imagine a good few of them feel cheated that their MP is propping up a Tory Government they didn't want.

Americans All 3 Top Gear presenters Jordan Anybody who buys OK, Hello, and any other such tawdry gossip rag Premier League footballers who think they amount to anything whatsoever just because they can kick a ball Fawning monarchists Tories The LibDems for sucking up to the the Tories BMW drivers TCWTB All other poopey scum Redknapp Americans Anybody who buys a f@ck!n 4X4 and only uses it as a school taxi or to do the shopping Americans the NRA All TV soaps plastic mancs all the stag & hen parties on the p!ss in Blackpool Yorkshire Scumacher

They are all as bad as each other. "Power, Greed, Corruption" the motto of the House of Commons

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Get rid of the Lords and replace it with a fully elected, fully proportional, second chamber. Removes all temptation to gerrymander the upper house.

As opposed to the Tories who are sponging bastards ?

That may be true, but what comes next ?

Shhhhh, we all KNOW Labour's immigration policy wasn't working ;-)

Does this judgement follow the same logic as Custer's infamous "The only good indian is a dead indian"?

silage

YES !

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So, you wouldn't go to the Louvre, or Versailles in Paris; or the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, or even the Kremlin, because the respective royal families are no longer there. How many tourists go to Horse Guards to stand next to the horses, as compared to standing next to the Queen ? How many watch the changing of the Guard, as opposed to watching the Queen ? The royal family are an historical anachronism, and their continued presence ensures that this country is forever trying to live on past glories. Also, AFAIK, I actually DO live in the real world. ( Though by the look of it, not necessarily the same one as you ;-) )

But you linked the ceremony to the presence of the monarchy, inferring that without the latter we might as well drop the former. My point is that republics manage the ceremonial perfectly well, and tourism thrives.

Edelweiss

Maybe we should have had an international banker on as well then

Why ? France has the Garde Republicaine, Greece has the Evzones, even the Vatican has the Swiss Guard.

Why does it matter ?

Because DC refused to allow his cabinet ministers to be shown up by Alistair Campbell.