badgerx16

He said "the vast majority....", and he was wrong.

How many less Police officers would you accept ? How many public libraries & swimming pools can close ? How many day care centres for the elderly can be shut down ? It's all well and good claiming that expenditure is simply going back to the level of a few years ago, but the nature of the cuts, and where they are being applied, will hit real front-line services, despite all the bluster that emanates from Downing Street.

Yep, I've never had it so good: I have a mortgage, so benefit from the low interest rates. Whoop de doo. I am in the first of 3 years with no pay rise, in fact due to 'pay review' will take a pay CUT of £1400 effective from April 1st. Mind you, that assumes I am still in a job by then, what with somewhere between 850 & 1000 slated for redundancy out of a workforce of 3700. My son left Uni & seems to have zero prospects of a job in the current environment. Many of my friends work at BAe, and are fretting about their futures. Yep. I'm over the moon. Lord Young, you are an out of touch, outdated, TIT !

Forum threads always wander way off topic and degenerate into some form of 'I know more than you...................', it's the nature of the Keyboard Warriors of t'Interweb.

Still

Why wouldn't George V let them come here ?

I would have thought that you could at least use her correct name, 'Kate' may be the short form, but she is a Catherine.

What has this to do with any discussion of the House of Windsor, however off track it might have gone from the OP ?

They are an anachronism, and are kept in place because of the fawning flunkies and social climbers who wish to gain influence, honours, and power by being in their 'presence'.

Just shows how gullible people can be. Pure overpriced tat, created to part people from their cash in the mistaken belief that a single item out of a production run of ten million will turn into a shrewd investment.

What happened to Henry IX, Henry X, Henry XI, and Henry XII ?

trapped

java

She'll be stalked by Diana's ghost wailing "Precioussss, my Preciousssss, nasssty little Germanses stole our Preciousss".

Nothing more 'down to earth' than having a tank commander for a dad.

But it similarly doesn't lead to communism. Some of the Rabid Right on here don't seem to understand exactly what a 'Constitutional Monarchy' actually means, nor how completely insignificant to most people's daily existence the Royals are.

Probably that the Grauniad hasn't yet spotted it.

That you don't get it ?

Again I ask, how does REPUBLICANISM, a situation enjoyed by the majority of the world's population, and specifically endorsed by the "Land of the Free", equate to COMMUNISM ?

Maggie T reputedly remarked in an interview with Brian Walden that if the Queen was permitted to vote, she would vote for a Social Democratic party.

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown," Courtesy of the Declaration of Independence.

How does republicanism equate to communism ? The biggest right wing collective on earth, the US of A, is a republic - they rejected the germans in the 1770's.

wimples

"Royalty pollutes people's minds. Honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone's grandad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was." Terry Pratchett sums it up perfectly.