The Queen ? Stitched Up?
Looks like the Beeb have been rumbled trying to stitch up the Queen and misrepresent her. Scalps have been taken to appease her Maj, the press, and the country at large. Peter Fincham has got off lightly; in days gone by he would have been obliged to forfeit his whole head.
So, is this incident yet more evidence that the majority of those who work for the BBC are a load of privileged middleclass luvies with republican pretensions? Are they a set of puffy twats who could do with an enforced spell on a building site working with real blokes? Might a spot of manual labour be just the ticket to curtail their arrogant middleclass snotiness and delusions of moral superiority?
Officer Dibble
The Queen ? Stitched Up?
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Re: The Queen – Stitched Up?
The BBC also had Oliver Cromwell in their top ten Britons of all time.
It's all becoming clear.......
It's all becoming clear.......
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Re: The Queen ? Stitched Up?
"Is the monarchy justified?"
In short, yes. Britain would be a very much greyer place without them - 'President Brown' anyone? And if we got rid of them we would be jettisoning a thousand years of colorful cultural heritage and our greatest tourist attraction. The royals are still revered throughout most of the world; in fact they are the foremost Royal Family in the world. They afford the UK extra leverage and clout in all sorts of spheres.
Funny thing is, although I was born in a dark industrial back-to-back slum, with a dark satanic mill on the end of the street, and without two halfpennies to rub together, I don't feel the slightest bit spiteful or jealous of the Royals. It's the middle classes who resent them - they are the spiteful ones. I've always wondered why this might be so, and I'm now of the opinion that it's because the Royals and aristocracy threaten the middleclass person?s smugness, and feelings of moral superiority. They take it for granted that they can lord it over the lumpen, inarticulate, powerless proletariat, but the royals and aristocracy are a different matter. I think the middle classes feel a little resentful, fearful even that there are others in this land who can look down their noses at them, contemptuous of their snotty little bureaucrat, holier than thou, posturing.
Officer Dibble
In short, yes. Britain would be a very much greyer place without them - 'President Brown' anyone? And if we got rid of them we would be jettisoning a thousand years of colorful cultural heritage and our greatest tourist attraction. The royals are still revered throughout most of the world; in fact they are the foremost Royal Family in the world. They afford the UK extra leverage and clout in all sorts of spheres.
Funny thing is, although I was born in a dark industrial back-to-back slum, with a dark satanic mill on the end of the street, and without two halfpennies to rub together, I don't feel the slightest bit spiteful or jealous of the Royals. It's the middle classes who resent them - they are the spiteful ones. I've always wondered why this might be so, and I'm now of the opinion that it's because the Royals and aristocracy threaten the middleclass person?s smugness, and feelings of moral superiority. They take it for granted that they can lord it over the lumpen, inarticulate, powerless proletariat, but the royals and aristocracy are a different matter. I think the middle classes feel a little resentful, fearful even that there are others in this land who can look down their noses at them, contemptuous of their snotty little bureaucrat, holier than thou, posturing.
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Re: The Queen ? Stitched Up?
Officer Dibble wrote:
>Britain would be a very much greyer place without them - 'President Brown' anyone?
Why assume it would be President Brown? Were we to become a republic, there would be a complete change of administration, with probably a Prime Minister, and a seperately elected President. It could even mean a PM of one party and a Pres of another, or a legislatery body and Head of State from opposite sides of the fence.
>And if we got rid of them we would be jettisoning a thousand years of colorful cultural heritage and our greatest tourist attraction.
What makes this country worth visiting wouldn't disappear overnight. The palaces and pageant remain.
>The royals are still revered throughout most of the world; in fact
they are the foremost Royal Family in the world.
Possibly still hanging in there despite the past few years.
>They afford the UK extra leverage and clout in all sorts of spheres.
Examples of our nation's clout/ leverage that exist due to the Windsors?
> Funny thing is, although I was born in a dark industrial
> back-to-back slum, with a dark satanic mill on the end of the
> street, and without two halfpennies to rub together, I don't
> feel the slightest bit spiteful or jealous of the Royals. It's
> the middle classes who resent them - they are the spiteful
> ones. I've always wondered why this might be so, and I'm now of
> the opinion that it's because the Royals and aristocracy
> threaten the middleclass person?s smugness, and feelings of
> moral superiority. They take it for granted that they can lord
> it over the lumpen, inarticulate, powerless proletariat, but
> the royals and aristocracy are a different matter. I think the
> middle classes feel a little resentful, fearful even that there
> are others in this land who can look down their noses at them,
> contemptuous of their snotty little bureaucrat, holier than
> thou, posturing.
A bit of reverse snobbery possibly.
Personally I can take or leave them but I'd like to see them take a much lower profile, more in line with our real placing in world 'ranking'. No civil list beyond the close family. There are a number of perfectly functioning monarchies in Europe that manage to retain dignity and decorum without appearing to think they still reign over large parts of the world.
>Britain would be a very much greyer place without them - 'President Brown' anyone?
Why assume it would be President Brown? Were we to become a republic, there would be a complete change of administration, with probably a Prime Minister, and a seperately elected President. It could even mean a PM of one party and a Pres of another, or a legislatery body and Head of State from opposite sides of the fence.
>And if we got rid of them we would be jettisoning a thousand years of colorful cultural heritage and our greatest tourist attraction.
What makes this country worth visiting wouldn't disappear overnight. The palaces and pageant remain.
>The royals are still revered throughout most of the world; in fact
they are the foremost Royal Family in the world.
Possibly still hanging in there despite the past few years.
>They afford the UK extra leverage and clout in all sorts of spheres.
Examples of our nation's clout/ leverage that exist due to the Windsors?
> Funny thing is, although I was born in a dark industrial
> back-to-back slum, with a dark satanic mill on the end of the
> street, and without two halfpennies to rub together, I don't
> feel the slightest bit spiteful or jealous of the Royals. It's
> the middle classes who resent them - they are the spiteful
> ones. I've always wondered why this might be so, and I'm now of
> the opinion that it's because the Royals and aristocracy
> threaten the middleclass person?s smugness, and feelings of
> moral superiority. They take it for granted that they can lord
> it over the lumpen, inarticulate, powerless proletariat, but
> the royals and aristocracy are a different matter. I think the
> middle classes feel a little resentful, fearful even that there
> are others in this land who can look down their noses at them,
> contemptuous of their snotty little bureaucrat, holier than
> thou, posturing.
A bit of reverse snobbery possibly.
Personally I can take or leave them but I'd like to see them take a much lower profile, more in line with our real placing in world 'ranking'. No civil list beyond the close family. There are a number of perfectly functioning monarchies in Europe that manage to retain dignity and decorum without appearing to think they still reign over large parts of the world.