WHILE SOME PEOPLE WERE HUNGRY, SOME COLD, AND PARLIAMENT VOTED TO REMOVE WORKING TAX CREDITS, THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE HAVING A JOLLY GOOD DAY AT OUR EXPENSE, WHAT!

Arrival.

Instead of customs, he gets met by the queen

What on Earth does Theresa May look like and where did they hide Philip Hammond?

Anyone know what that says?

If you got enough money adn sufficient servants you can scrub up well

He must think that we drive in the middle of the road, and haven't quite got cars yet.

She looks like she's having a good time with the old racist.
I wonder how many times he's managed to insult her.

Just like home

I wonder if that what you had for dinner f you were down at the food bank yesterday.

Is that her bus pass she's got on that blue thing?

Just a few people round for supper...after all she doesn't have to pay for it. You do.

And the booze is free too.

Down side is you have to listen to one of Liz's interminable speeches, which may Philip Hammond sound interesting and animated. 

Not everyone is happy.

Specially steel workers...

...And Tibetans, who get an even worse deal from the Chinese than Scots get from the Brits.

MIDWEEK MIX

WARNING: ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING PHOTOGRAPHS MAY REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE A RECEPTACLE CLOSE AT HAND  (VOMIT FOR THE CATCHING OF)

Just like the Games.
We help pay for theirs and we pay for our own ourselves.

Well, you can't really argue with it.

All's well that ends well then, Yer Maj.

Seriously, what a way to run a country!

The answer to the second question us "YES"

Yes, embarrassing though it is, what's underneath you is your problem.

Evil 

I did warn you that you might need a pail.

Another pile of evil, of a different sort

None then, I expect is the answer.
Another DWP parasite.

I'm not Prince Charles' biggest fan, as most of you will know, but after reading this, I'm very glad that I don't have to live in his Duchy. I thought you might like to read it too. Far too much privilege, far too little accountability or democracy. My thanks to the author of Cornish Republican for bringing it to my attention.


For the information of anyone who is remotely interested, Kate Middleton wore a pair of earrings to go to the kirk on Christmas day. They were a present from her husband, William, and according to AOL News, they cost £1,900. I wonder how many of his colleagues in Search and Rescue, Wales, were able to spend that much money on their wives... or come to that, how AOL News found out how much he spent on her...

Talking of royalty, you have to hand it to Phil. He certainly knows how to enjoy himself. He got out of hospital this morning, and although we only have the BBC reporter's word for it, he was told to rest for some time. But instead the old goat was out shooting defenceless birds this afternoon. Whatever you think of that (and I take a dim view of it), you have to laugh at the Telegraph's reporting: "Dressed smartly in a blue shirt with a green patterned tie and grey jacket, he sat in the passenger seat of a blue Range Rover for the 60 mile, one hour 13 minute journey."!!!!!!!! Goodness. He was dressed smartly, was he? How else was he going to be dressed? With his money he's hardly likely to look like he fell out of a bin, is he? Oh yeah...and the journey was 1 hour and 13 minutes? Bang on.


Sinead O'Connor latest marriage lasted 16 days... that's a record, even by her standards.


Alex Salmond has gone and got himself voted Briton of the Year. He is reported delighted! Oh the irony.

Those who predicted that Scots looking for cheap, cheap booze would head over the border to England for their Diamond White cider and offers of '3 for the price of 2', were a wee bit previous in their predictions. Cameron has just announced a similar scheme of minimum pricing for his country. It had to come. Chief medical officers in all parts of the UK have been advising it for a long time. It's not perfect, and i don't think it's the only solution, but it may help a little.

ROYAL GAFFES: DOES HE DO IT ON PURPOSE?

It’s been a while since there was a republican item on this republican blog. So it was with the usual sense of embarrassment that I heard on the “silly bastard” slot on the ITV news today the His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has yet again opened his mouth and put his foot in it.

While visiting sea and army cadets with his wife the Duke asked a female sea cadet what she did as a day job. She replied that she worked in a club. To which he quipped “a strip club”. She replied “no” and he said “well it’s too cold today anyway”. Well there you are, the unelected husband of our unelected head of state, thinks that all women that work in clubs are strippers. Doubtless before going home and preparing the men folk a delicious lunch, changing into a party frock and waiting at the bedroom door.

The Duke does this sort of thing so regularly that it set me to wondering: why? Is he so stupid that he just does not think about what he is going to say before blurting it out? Or is it that he considers himself and presumably the rest of his brood to be above the ordinary norms of decent and polite society? If I had been a person of similar standing and had said something equally offensive would it have all been laughed off in the ‘amusing idiot’ section of the news? Surely not, would the Queen have married a man with so little savoir faire? I really find that hard to believe.

Which lead me to conclude that he is doing it on purpose because he thinks that it endears him to us. Perhaps the people who feel that these royals are such a huge asset to UK plc abroad would like to explain how HRH Duke could be considered an asset when everywhere he goes he manages to offend anybody who is not an English speaking white man?

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