A new King?!

[lidbid46]

Good for William and Kate - about time! Hope the media leave them alone; doubt they will!!

[mark8364]

The Royal Family should be abolished....

[lidbid46]

So should you!!!

[Rimshot]

Agree with Mark. Pointless, expensive, anachronistic, anti-democratic. Kings and Queens belong in Alice in Wonderland .

[Kezz]

Could be a new Queen!!
I'm not a huge royalist really but I'm really pleased for Kate and William.

[mark8364]

John Terry is the father.......

[Rimshot]

Nah, it's Hewitt again !

[Poshgill]

I can understand Kate being in hospital with severe sickness. I'm sick of hearing about it already!

Glad the young lady is able to get treatment in hospital for morning sickness. My wife suffered the same, but unforunately, she had to continue working!

[Robpthegills]

but if your wife had needed medical treatment the nhs was there for her posh.

Your born into what your born.

Your wife is a lot luckier than other people that is life there is a ladder and we all belong on different rungs.

As for costing a fortune that myth was blown out the water this year Rimshot. Its just a very tired old spiel spouted out by the left which believes in Equality yet its never been achieved and never will be, the reason is its a pipe dream.

At least the royals have fought for this country not like a lot of the left wing voting scum class who dont even work never mind represent their country.

[Poshgill]

The point I'm making Rob, is who the bloody hell goes to hospital for morning sickness? Most women (regardless of if they are entitled or not!) wouldn't even consider going to hospital. They just bravely put up with it.

And I'd like to take you to task for assuming that all Left wingers are republicans or all Right wingers are monarchists. I have a veryy good friend that is a card-carrying member of the Tory party and he is more of a confirmed republican than anyone else I have ever met. I also know members of the Labour party that are Monarchists.

Your right wing bigotry has come out a bit with the 'left wing voting scum class '. Nothing worse that people making assumptions. I am left wing, but I think I have a lot more class than the vast majority of fascist right wing voters that think because they are doing well, then everyone should be as well off as them.

[Robpthegills]

I just get bored posh that everytime the royals do something the left wing on this board seem to want to come out and hammer them

Yet they do very little wrong, an awful lot right and cannot help being born into what they are born into.


As for my right wing views causing me to spout about Scum class NO YOUR WRONG.... the anger and the defence I feel in my heart when I hear people slating our royals is what made me react like that. Or is it only okay to slag off the royals.

Anyway I wont be engaging in this conversation anymore as its pointless.

MARK you slag the royals off but what have you done for your country, Shit you dont even give to charity never mind to the country so dont give me all this anti royal shite.

[Poshgill]

I've no idea about Mark's politics and I''m not sure you do either. Rimshot has confessed his allegience to the Left a few times, but I certainly wouldn't call him scum. In fact, he is a very succesful business man.

As for me. Well actually I'm pretty ambivelent towards the Royals. I was a confirmed Republican in my youth and I'd have certainly been willing to string them up. Ironically, it was your beloved Maggie that changed my opinion. I could not ever think how bad this country would have been if she had been President (or even Blair come to that) and sometimes it is better the devil you know. My daughter is a confirmed Royalist, so my extreme views of my early days does not seem to have clouded her opinions.

Your vitrolic outburst because your beloved monarchy has been afronted is really quite unnecessary. As Oscar Wilde said, Patriotism is the virtue of the vicous.

[Garawa]

Question is, what alternative would there be? It is a case of:

Cost of running a monachy minus value of tourist income minus business generated from royal connections

against

Cost of paying a President plus loss of above income

I wouldn't mind betting there wouldn't be an awful difference in it, especially as I believe those figures would grow substantially once William becomes King (providing he and has family remain a vision of virtue until then). It is too simplistic to just say they should be got rid of, there are too many variables involved. We have seen how the world (and this country) has responded regarding the jubilee celebrations and is quite clear the country would vote to retain a monarchy if a vote were to be cast. I haven't always agreed with some of the things they have done but I feel a lot has been done to streamline the family in this economic climate. I don't think we would be any better off without them and could end up worse - if you hate Cameron Posh imagine him as President because that is what the public would end up doing. I can't see millions of Chinese visitors flooding to London to see him can you?

[Poshgill]

Re read my post Gary. I do not advocate us being a Republic (I did in my youth but my opinion has changed) There are no politicians that are good enough to be a figure head for the country.

However, I will question the theory that the Monarchy brings tourists into the country. I suspect that some tourists will come to look at Buckingham Palace or Windsor castle but they would come even if we had no monarchy. The Chinese do not flood to London to see the queen as you so succinctly put it, they come to see the history and the buildings. I went to the Vatican to look at the buildings and the Sistine chapel. I did not go to see the Poe and it does not mean I am a Catholic. The French are a Republic and yet they have a lot more tourists than we do. I suspect that this myth was perpetuated by Royalists to justify what we spend on the royals.

[Robpthegills]

posh I am not calling you, Rimshot or mARK scum class.

You know that, you are one of the few people I actually respect and look up to even if you are politically bonkers lol.

It wasnt the buildings or the rivers or the culture that had our country advertised all over the world at the start of this year, it was the link to the royals. The advertising that gave our country was amazing, the togetherness people felt who got involved.

All i am saying is Kate Middleton has worked, she has worked tirelessly since her new found position. SO WHAT she gets to go to hospital with Morning sickness, i would imagine her weight has a lot to do with that.

I would rather her be getting this medical attention than

the council house spongers who are not paying anything towards the country but drop sproggs faster that a bad juggler drops balls and they get all the health stuff for free but no we are LABOUR we have to love those little darlings......