tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post4686086792666440295..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: SOMEONE IS HAPPY THE TORIES ARE IN POWERMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-50899923504092020942011-01-13T17:27:25.210+00:002011-01-13T17:27:25.210+00:00LOL NB... it never occurred to me that anyone real...LOL NB... it never occurred to me that anyone really did, although I recently saw someone reading on in the dentists' waiting room... <br /><br />... Gee ... oh well, I suppose it will serve a purpose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4555035262391306352011-01-13T02:02:29.118+00:002011-01-13T02:02:29.118+00:00"And do women want to spend the day gazing at..."And do women want to spend the day gazing at what other women, with a million times (literally) more to spend on clothes, are wearing."<br /><br />Quite a lot of them do, yes. Who do you think it is buying all those copies of 'love it!', 'More', 'Take a Break' etc.?The North Britonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05621391831710843797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-42776809792706124512011-01-11T13:01:41.571+00:002011-01-11T13:01:41.571+00:00Be fair Danny, Old George didn’t actually lose the...Be fair Danny, Old George didn’t actually lose the American colonies, and all that useful stolen income, himself... I mean he had a bit of a helping hand.<br /><br />It’s a bit like Churchill (good though he was) didn’t win the war entirely by himself, there were a few blokes (some who weren’t even Englishmen....that went out and actually did some fighting and losing lives and losing legs and stuff... without all the brandy and cigars!!!!!)<br /><br />But I digress. It seemed that the Civil list was a good idea at the time. I have a feeling that Georgie was a bit like Charlie and his grandmother. He spent money like it grew on trees. And of course it more of less does for Charlie.<br /><br />Before we had the 10 year settlement, there used to be a fight in parliament every year about how much of our dosh they were going to get. I remember at one stage reading that Princess Margaret (an old soak who was the Queen’s sister) was getting £400,000 or thereby, a year plus a free apartment in Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle and Holyrood, plus transport wherever and for whatever she needed. And all for doing NOTHING. She spent half the year in Mustique with a succession of toy boys, whom, one imagines we kept in champagne.<br /><br />I remember reading too that on one occasion she wanted to take a party of friends to the races at Ascot. There was a perfectly good train service from Windsor, where she was staying, with a return fare of about £7. She however arranged for the royal train to be deployed at a cost to the state of some £50,000.<br /><br />Topday, Charles uses the royal train, flies by private jet with Princess Crocodile Parker-Bowles and we are allowed to know how much it costs, but from now on.... no. So the most extravagant royal in living memory (yes, even more ridiculous than his grandmother) will be allowed to spend whatever he wants on whatever he wants...<br /><br />And we suck it all up Dean. You are right. We must be mad.<br /><br />Witless lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-40471856937749893892011-01-11T12:48:08.995+00:002011-01-11T12:48:08.995+00:00Yes Laz:
I'm not altogetehr sure why they are...Yes Laz:<br /><br />I'm not altogetehr sure why they are in such a state about Tubes. I mean it's not like anyone who matters travels by Tube. 'One doesn't have a season ticket.' Some of them probably have never been in an Underground station. Some Can you imagine Beatrice and her detectives using the metro?<br /><br />While the eyes of the world are upon such weighty matters as the colour of her dress (I doubt that white would be appropriate as they live together in Wales) perhaps a muddly brown, it is a good opportunity for us to show how horrible life is in the UK for anyone not born to privilege. We have to try to ensure that it gets tv coverage, no matter how hard the journey.<br /><br />(Actually, as the Tube is falling to pieces and rarely reliable, I think that even walking might be less horrible than using it.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-14986284890140595822011-01-11T12:39:27.512+00:002011-01-11T12:39:27.512+00:00Munguin... I think they get Boris to write the Tor...Munguin... I think they get Boris to write the Tory-royal-aristocracy friendly clauses in Latin or Ancient Greek, so that the thicko proles won't understand a word of it, and just assume it's been written by their betters... so it must be right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4284223343850039002011-01-11T12:37:27.561+00:002011-01-11T12:37:27.561+00:00Right Dean, and she should be allowed to chop peop...Right Dean, and she should be allowed to chop people's head s off too. ;¬)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-10737644394000083292011-01-11T12:36:23.597+00:002011-01-11T12:36:23.597+00:00Ha ha QM... I should imagine that after the disast...Ha ha QM... I should imagine that after the disasterous mess they left, they WILL be reasonably happy... But now when the Queen talks about "My Governemnt" perhaps she should really say, "My Eldest Son's Government", because they do seem to be his glove puppets, unlpleasant thought though that might be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-19723912630223073382011-01-11T12:34:11.189+00:002011-01-11T12:34:11.189+00:00Vive la république Conan. Liberté, Egalité, Frater...Vive la république Conan. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.<br /><br />They aren't bad things to aspire to, are they? <br /><br />But Dean is at "liberté", to think that we should bow the knee to out "betters" if he wishes.<br /><br />I actually think that what is frightening is that Charles has been pestering the life out of ministers to do stuff on a wide range of subjects for 50 years, and no one has done much more that bow, scrape and said "yes your royal highness" and then explain to him why the government can't do it.<br /><br />Apart from wasting an inordinate amount of government time, and remember he deals with the top, not some junior minister, it hasn't done much harm.<br /><br />A slightly mad eccentric chap with delusions of grandeur, living in the Edwardian age, wastes ministerial and prime ministerial time...and gets a bit of a drubbing in the press.<br /><br />Now he has found a government which takes its direction from him, and no one will ever be allowed to know how many times Camerclegg will be summoned to attend upon his royal highness at wherever he might be.<br /><br />Lord help us. Other countries go forward... the UK stumbles backwards, with its head bowed, into 1910.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-21036606441030144042011-01-11T12:17:52.732+00:002011-01-11T12:17:52.732+00:00Dean...away and fuck off.
Viva la Republica!Dean...away and fuck off.<br /><br />Viva la Republica!Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-67443364366208799182011-01-11T11:47:08.743+00:002011-01-11T11:47:08.743+00:00George III seems to me to have been a disaster for...George III seems to me to have been a disaster for the royal family. He not only was the one who lost the American colonies (apparently unpopular at the time), he turned over the income from the Crown Estate to Parliament in return for what became sort of an eternal annuity. (Allowing modern politicians to rant about how they pay much of the cost of the royal family, while raking in the Crown Estate revenues which are now much more than the Civil List is or ever was.) POOR royals! But they did agree to the bad deal. Anyway, I love that picture of Charles and his mum. How nice that the photographer snapped the shutter at the precise moment Charles tells her what he's getting the Tories to agree to.<br /><br />Is this outrageous Tory plan really causing no big outcry? The contrarian principle of politics would suggest that if the Civil List/Crown Estate arrangement were to be fiddled with, the party historically more favorable to royal prerogatives would NOT be the party to do it. Too much public outcry about the Tories being....Tory.<br /><br />In the US, it took Richard Nixon, the old red-baiting, McCarthy-loving Congressman from California to establish friendly relations with "Red" China. And it took a Republican, George W. Bush, to pass badly needed prescription drug coverage for the federal Medicare program. (The biggest and most important improvement to Medicare in 40 years.)<br /><br />So it's surprising to me that the Tories could pull this off for the royals. Hard as it is to believe in 2011, maybe there are a lot of people in the body politic of Britain who actually embrace the medieval idea of an hereditary monarch as Head of State. (An American prespective here of course.)Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14450203101640592230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-62696646500469329732011-01-11T10:44:38.077+00:002011-01-11T10:44:38.077+00:00So much for open government, now we won’t be able ...So much for open government, now we won’t be able to know anything about royal finances it will all be out with the remit of freedom of information legislation. <br /><br />Never mind, every cloud has a silver lining, at least from now on Dean and other royal apologists won’t be able to make the ludicrous assertion that the Brenda and her odious brood are cheaper than the French or US Presidents. Because, unlike French and US Presidential spending (all of it) none of the spending of our head of state (and her family) will be available in the public domain. So another nail in the coffin of open Government! No doubt next time the small print will contain exclusions for MPs Lords and the Conservative Party as well.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-68998314621696434162011-01-11T09:49:44.703+00:002011-01-11T09:49:44.703+00:00The Queen should get pay rises, and should not hav...The Queen should get pay rises, and should not have to disclose to parliament what she spends the money on. <br /><br />It is her personal financial affairs after all, and the public ought not interfereDean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-10121362287162065762011-01-11T06:23:36.408+00:002011-01-11T06:23:36.408+00:00Oh I thought this was about the Labour Party ;-)Oh I thought this was about the Labour Party ;-)Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-46498208401437102832011-01-11T02:16:03.505+00:002011-01-11T02:16:03.505+00:00Nevermind the Republic, I've had enough of ANY...Nevermind the Republic, I've had enough of ANY sort of master.<br />Tube strikes should be the LEAST that the royal wedding can expect, though it does mean anyone seeking to raise awareness for something more than out of place expenditure might have some trouble getting there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-1567745471992494522011-01-11T01:41:21.361+00:002011-01-11T01:41:21.361+00:00Long live the Republic!
When we get one...Long live the Republic!<br /><br />When we get one...Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com