tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post7335576497097847286..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: Can Charles possibly be the future?Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78024875156353869152009-12-13T21:17:53.850+00:002009-12-13T21:17:53.850+00:00AMW: Och, go on, we'll give him 2 corgies. Don...AMW: Och, go on, we'll give him 2 corgies. Don't want the poor wee thing to get lonely, unless Maverick fancies muscling in there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-80477588194569185342009-12-13T19:24:46.380+00:002009-12-13T19:24:46.380+00:00Tris..
Well lets hope so. I voted in your poll fo...Tris..<br /><br />Well lets hope so. I voted in your poll for the first option but when we do win independence and say we voted to keep the monarchy, then would had hoped it had been slimmed down to 1 corgi, a king and that's about it.<br /><br />Oh aye, dinna laugh at that score line btw. I stand by it even though I'm talking rubbish..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-77358036451288734682009-12-13T18:05:18.574+00:002009-12-13T18:05:18.574+00:00Dean: I won’t press the matter, but at least it s...Dean: I won’t press the matter, but at least it shows that I am reading what you say and taking it on board, a compliment surely.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-60813020752093637982009-12-13T17:41:52.923+00:002009-12-13T17:41:52.923+00:00Dean
Thank you. Always best to look after your fe...Dean<br /><br />Thank you. Always best to look after your feet. The mother of a friend of mine once told me that if I could only afford to buy two expensive, real quality things they should be a bed and a pair of shoes, as you spend half your life in one, and half your life in the other. :¬)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-16232464604691108442009-12-13T17:39:11.141+00:002009-12-13T17:39:11.141+00:00QM:
I've always thought that they were more p...QM:<br /><br />I've always thought that they were more popular in England than here, probably becasue that's where they live. They spend 10 days a year in official residence in Edinburgh, and to be honest they are seen by many as being distant from us, and always 'visiting', rahter like they must be in Canada and New Zealand.<br /><br />I think we're more likely to think of the Secretary of State as being representative of London than the Queen is LOL... what a thought... King Jim.<br /><br />Yes, Charles is considered odd here too. I think from what I read in other papers today the Queen may think that Charles will have to be by-passed particularly given his wife's aversion to public duties that are not to her taste.<br /><br />In the good old days the Queen would have had a junior incommer like her in her rooms and told her where her duty lay, but all things must change I suspect. It's probably against her human rights or something ....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-76031514111303801552009-12-13T17:28:51.322+00:002009-12-13T17:28:51.322+00:00Tris,
Always happy to offer up a more nuanced Con...Tris,<br /><br />Always happy to offer up a more nuanced Conservative view! <br /><br />Munguin,<br /><br />Ah, your last question at the end is one rather large elephant trap! One which I shall side-step for the good of my feetDean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-18699441459010550112009-12-13T17:03:45.483+00:002009-12-13T17:03:45.483+00:00There are a good few in England who don't beli...There are a good few in England who don't believe Charles should ever sit on the throne. Yes the Queen has done well, but her son is no man of the people and is regarded by those trying to be kind as rather odd.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-18693371809304534892009-12-13T16:29:36.237+00:002009-12-13T16:29:36.237+00:00Tut Tut Munguin. Do as I say, not as I do. Did I r...Tut Tut Munguin. Do as I say, not as I do. Did I really come up with Big Ears? Sounds miles too clever for me. I must have heard someone else say it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-30071351603513515532009-12-13T16:27:07.342+00:002009-12-13T16:27:07.342+00:00Don’t be silly Tris, I call her Brenda as a term o...Don’t be silly Tris, I call her Brenda as a term of endearment and if it’s good enough for Private Eye it’s good enough for here. Sorry to contradict that wonderful rose coloured image you have of yourself but I think it was actually you that coined the term Big Ears for Prince Charles so I just assumed that was okay. And it was the good Mr Al Fayed that called Mrs P/B a Crocodile, right enough that last one may be a bit close to the bone.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-49403774024608739842009-12-13T16:12:22.549+00:002009-12-13T16:12:22.549+00:00Yesh, well I had to ignore the website, seeing as ...Yesh, well I had to ignore the website, seeing as how it didn't have any score up.... I'm just seeing the fixture there.<br /><br />Only 7 goals? Don't be so cheeky Mr!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-88455693738807451012009-12-13T16:10:45.648+00:002009-12-13T16:10:45.648+00:00Well AMW, I'm hoping that by the time we get t...Well AMW, I'm hoping that by the time we get to Wills and Harry we'll be a separate country and our President will be welcoming them as foreign heads royals, which of course wee will do with typical Scottish courtesy and style.."Ye'll've hud yer tea?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-73224587094740043452009-12-13T16:07:44.827+00:002009-12-13T16:07:44.827+00:00Tris..
Erm we won 10-0 and I scored 7 of them but...Tris..<br /><br />Erm we won 10-0 and I scored 7 of them but dinna take any notice of what the website says lol..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-35372047789188202172009-12-13T16:06:33.463+00:002009-12-13T16:06:33.463+00:00Tris..
Good point btw, Charles can get stuff done...Tris..<br /><br />Good point btw, Charles can get stuff done because of who he is. If Joe public was to condemn some of the people Charles has (Ie architects etc) then he would had been told where to go.<br /><br />Yeh I'm not a big fan of people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and this lot clearly were born with several. Its all the pomp and crap that comes with the royal family that I cant be bothered with. <br /><br />I like the two boys though and I hope when they are older and some of the older ones have passed away then they could bring back some credibility in the Royal family.<br /><br />At the moment its just a burden on the tax payer and despite what some people say about them bring money into the UK, 99% will not benefit from it yet the cost us each about a fiver a year to keep.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78980358316037935622009-12-13T15:41:30.134+00:002009-12-13T15:41:30.134+00:00Hush Munguin. Didn't your mummy tell you it...Hush Munguin. Didn't your mummy tell you it's rude to call people names... and it doesn't advance your argument.<br /><br />Never catch me doing a thing like that, even about that wee fat guy that is Gordon Brown's chargehand in the Scottish parliament... what's his name again?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-14128640535047166272009-12-13T12:19:25.046+00:002009-12-13T12:19:25.046+00:00Tris: what a good idea, the House of Windsor plc w...Tris: what a good idea, the House of Windsor plc we could flog them off to Dubai or let England footballers buy them up as investments and then lose their shirts when their stock pluments. <br /><br />Don't quite see the need to subsidies them, after all they are not as useful as say the railways to the UK are they. I see them going more the way of shipbuilding, coal and steel which went under in a private environment due to Mrs Thatcher's long term shortsightedness. After all if we ran Brenda and her blood sucking brood like a household budget (as Mrs T was want to do) they would be way down the list.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-61585201378228755352009-12-13T12:14:55.865+00:002009-12-13T12:14:55.865+00:00PS AMW.... What was the score with Vale of Leithen...PS AMW.... What was the score with Vale of Leithen?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4054569079604590312009-12-13T12:10:21.258+00:002009-12-13T12:10:21.258+00:00Conan:
Maybe the Tories will privatise them, like...Conan:<br /><br />Maybe the Tories will privatise them, like the railways.... oh no, that would mean they would cost us even more and they'd always be late....<br /><br />ah well.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-56495983752710630792009-12-13T12:07:42.422+00:002009-12-13T12:07:42.422+00:00I think Royalists should get to pay a "Keep p...I think Royalists should get to pay a "Keep parasites in luxury" Tax. How long till they became Republicans?Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-53500005328932698012009-12-13T12:00:37.797+00:002009-12-13T12:00:37.797+00:00Munguin:
I think that if we keep the royals (I...Munguin:<br /><br />I think that if we keep the royals (I'm talking about a UK situation now), we should allow them to live in Buckingham Palace and Holyrood. St James's, Clarence House, Windsor Castle, Thatched Lodge and Kensington Palace should be sold off. We simply can't afford them. <br /><br />I see that the retirement pensions have effectively been reduced and that taxes are going up on people earing over £20,000 a year in order to repay the HUGE debt this idiot government has incurred. The UK is a small very very broke country. It simply can't afford to provide the royal family with 7 state owned palaces to live in.<br /><br />Of course, what the Queen does with her own properties is her business. Sandringham House and Balmoral are hers and nothing to do with us and the rest of them have other private places to live.<br /><br />The government is in the process of selling off everything that it can lay its hands on. It should be looking at these extra palaces. Billionaires would pay good money to live where the Queen lived.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-50058457926695718772009-12-13T11:52:43.828+00:002009-12-13T11:52:43.828+00:00SR: I'm sorry if you feel I was a tad rough on...SR: I'm sorry if you feel I was a tad rough on poor Mrs Parker-Bowles. I can't help feeling that she's used Charlie. She's got the title and the big houses now, but her side of the bargain would have been to smile a bit and shake lots of hands in horrible places that she didn't want to be. (Although I see she insisted on hanging on to her own house only down the road from Highgrove just in case. It's a pity really because now we have to have security staff on it 24 x 7 at pretty high cost.)<br /><br />Can you imagine the Queen giving up on a tour because she didn't like the heat?<br /><br />I think Mrs Parker-Bowles maybe needs to get out of the kitchen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-76410855545935951572009-12-13T11:47:36.873+00:002009-12-13T11:47:36.873+00:00Scunnert: I'm inclined to agree. It's unfa...Scunnert: I'm inclined to agree. It's unfair to ask royals to live the kind of lives we look for in a fairy tale. Let them go off into the world and make their way like other people. If they relly are special they will succeed anyway and be able to do the charity work by dint of ability and personality rather than inherited positionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-79508566823795487452009-12-13T11:45:33.167+00:002009-12-13T11:45:33.167+00:00LOL AMW. I had just got my hanky out when I notice...LOL AMW. I had just got my hanky out when I noticed that you had trotted along here and left your mark... so I'm feeling all better now.<br /><br />I just disapprove of hereditary position. That's the top and bottom of it. Whether it is Mrs Thatcher's hapless and criminal son having his father's title, or the Viscount Falkland living off us in the House of Lords and cheating on his expenses because it suited his lifestyle, or the royal family. I know some of them do good; it would be stupid to deny that, and Dean is right about some of Charles' charity work. Because he is who he is he can get things done, but as you say, the whole thing is incredibly top heavy. Norway, Sweden, Denmark and other Europeans seem to have dealt with it much more sensibly, but for me, even that is wrong. You should merit what you get in life; not be born to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-48221784555172507712009-12-13T11:36:56.020+00:002009-12-13T11:36:56.020+00:00Dean.
I agree that Charles can do and has done mu...Dean.<br /><br />I agree that Charles can do and has done much. I’d be the first to admit that the Prince’s Trust is a fantastic organisation. I’ve seen the result of some of its work and it is quite amazing. I also know that it’s not his fault that he is who he is. For the charity work that he has done I congratulate him.<br /><br />However, I simply disapprove of someone being something because he was born to be that someone. He is there through no merit whatsoever. I’m not saying he doesn’t have any merit, I’m saying that it’s not what got him the big house and the country estates. His brother is a representative for business, not because he has any knowledge or experience of business, but because he is a royal highness. <br /><br />I’m not denying that they do some good, but I still don’t believe that it is the right system. Merit should dictate where we end up in life, not who our mother is.<br /><br />As far as Charles’ interference in government is concerned, he may or may not be doing it for the good of people, but, if he tries it as King, he could bring down a democratically elected government. And, it might be a democratically elected Tory government!!!!! That’s not his job. <br /><br />Sorry my friend, we are destined to disagree about this subject, but as always you are polite and express your opinions fairly, and it is good to get the other point of view. Thank you for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-50544036068458590922009-12-13T10:08:53.991+00:002009-12-13T10:08:53.991+00:00I always admire people who selflessly put themselv...I always admire people who selflessly put themselves out for charity; for example I always used to think very little indeed of Jeremy Beadle, who I never thought was very funny or very clever, but it turns out that he tirelessly did £100,000,000 worth of things for charity and only ever got an MBE. What a much better example he is that Prince Charles who has every title going and never lets you forget his charity work because that is almost all that he is. He has a position that he never earned, one that puts him above people like Jeremy Beadle as a matter of birth right and one that he can use to inflate his contribution way beyond what it is actually worth.<br /><br />Child poverty is a serious issue that ought to be dealt with by our elected government and not tinkered with on the sidelines by some opinionated playboy who would not know poverty if it slapped him in the face. Poverty to him is having the shaving things put on the wrong side of the sink by your flunky. The same holds true for all political issues, if he holds to this political course it wont be long before people think they are being patronised by him and he succeeds in alienating the people we did vote for. And out he will go and hopefully take the whole rotten institution with him.<br /><br />Dean: I remember you told me that you admire the Queen for her a-political stance, are you now saying that you admire her son an heir for his political one as well?<br /><br />AS for palaces, I just don’t see why they need four palaces in London when Buckingham Palace has 400 rooms. Who owns Sandringham, Clarence House, Windsor Castle and Balmoral?? Added to St Jamses, Buckingham, Holyrood House and Kensington it’s hardly surprising that even the British state cannot afford there upkeep.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-60145149210288220802009-12-13T04:05:01.320+00:002009-12-13T04:05:01.320+00:00I think you're cruel to poor Camilla. She wan...I think you're cruel to poor Camilla. She wants to use the money we give her to play with her grandchildren. Surely we can all sympathise with that.<br /><br />I mean to say, carting her stuff and her staff from house to house to play with kids is an expensive business.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.com