Topic: Should the UK keep the Royal Family?

[Sharado]

Well. Think that'll all blow over now after that convincing performance.

[cloggypop]

I'm just glad that he has now regained the ability to sweat. Was a bit worried there.

[Crosby Nick]

I’d stay away from tunnels for a while if I were him.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

I’d stay away from tunnels for a while if I were him.

and france

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Pizza Express in Woking getting some glowing reviews on Trip Advisor.


https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g580430-d730973-Reviews-or10-Pizza_Express-Woking_Surrey_England.html

[BlackandWhitePaul]

Pizza Express in Woking getting some glowing reviews on Trip Advisor.


https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g580430-d730973-Reviews-or10-Pizza_Express-Woking_Surrey_England.html

 

[killer-heels]

Pizza Express in Woking getting some glowing reviews on Trip Advisor.


https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g580430-d730973-Reviews-or10-Pizza_Express-Woking_Surrey_England.html

Ha, amazing.

[Ray K]

I don't know what you're all talking about, I was very convinced.

Mind you, I haven't sweated since I had a near death experience falling off my bike in 1987 and cut my knee (though I recently have been cured), and I certainly remember the date of every occasion I go to a generic pizza place, especially when they don't coincide with family member's birthdays.

[Shankly998]

Absolute car crash TV, amazing anyone in the royal household thought that was a good idea (Pizza Express, Can't sweat, Stayed at Epstein's home for 4 days because it was convenient) Omnishambles is the word that springs to mind.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

Absolute car crash TV, amazing anyone in the royal household thought that was a good idea (Pizza Express, Can't sweat, Stayed at Epstein's home for 4 days because it was convenient) Omnishambles is the word that springs to mind.

the Jacob Rees Mogg of the royal family

[Cruiser]

You'd think with all his money and contacts the sweaty prick would at least have hired a decent PR team to prepare for that interview.

His body language and responses were a car crash that even the Duke would be proud of.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

You'd think with all his money and contacts the sweaty prick would at least have hired a decent PR team to prepare for that interview.

His body language and responses were a car crash that even the Duke would be proud of.

when you are thick no amount of experts can help

[Crosby Nick]

What was he thinking though? A nice gentle interview with the BBC would nip this in the bud and stop people talking about it but he’s just made things a lot more uncomfortable for himself. Imagine having all that time to prepare and the only defence is “I don’t recall”.

[Guz-kop]

Extraordinary interview. How badly can someone be advised? Or maybe how arrogant and ignorant can you be to ignore your advice/pr team. Who knows

The biggest thing of that hour though was his refusal to show any remorse for his relationship with a convicted sex offender, simply because he made some good business contacts out of it. Fucking horrible man

[Hazell]

Extraordinary interview. How badly can someone be advised? Or maybe how arrogant and ignorant can you be to ignore your advice/pr team. Who knows

The biggest thing of that hour though was his refusal to show any remorse for his relationship with a convicted sex offender, simply because he made some good business contacts out of it. Fucking horrible man

Honourable

[The Gulleysucker]

Mo...

[The Test]

Not sure I've ever watched anything as damning as that interview. And it's telling that he categorically denied sleeping with the girl but never once denied meeting her. The "I don't recall" defence suggests to me that he knows there's definitive proof they met which will come out in due course. He's obviously looking to avoid a "Clintonesque" binary statement that could fuck him up later.

100% guilty. Right down to the obvious tells, like focusing on irrelevant detail such as how many times he visited palm beach while completely ignoring the massage allegations.

[TepidT2O]

A very simple answer surely?

I didn’t have sex with her.

‘ I don’t even recall meeting her’ might be fair enough, you don’t remember everyone you’ve met.   

But you’d remember having or not having sex with her.

An unequivocal answer on this should be absolutely simple.

[Cruiser]

Maybe hes geneuinely had so many partners he actually doesn't remember them?

Afterall this is a guy that was banging Fergie and inevitably had to make up for it 

Then that would have to be an extraordinary number of women/girls on the Hugh Heffner scale and a real thick c*nt who can't remember (probably qualifies for the latter).

[Crosby Nick]

A very simple answer surely?

I didn’t have sex with her.

‘ I don’t even recall meeting her’ might be fair enough, you don’t remember everyone you’ve met.   

But you’d remember having or not having sex with her.

An unequivocal answer on this should be absolutely simple.

Unless you’ve had tons of sex with loads of field of a similar age so it’s difficult to pinpoint one.

[The Test]

But how can he not remember ever meeting her, not remember the photo being taken, but specifically remember not having sex with her. That simply doesn't work.

[Fiasco]

Quite a lot of his awkwardness will come from him never imagining being in a chair being grilled in that sort of way. We're on very dicey ground when it comes to talking about what he might or might not have done so I wont even go there. But just broadly speaking it seems clear that he's in a state of confusion and shock that he even has to answer questions about such a topic for the public to see. A Royal, being held to account in such a way?

His excuses are beyond laughable, his contradictions plenty, his demeanour reeked of desperation and I think he knows that in the near future more is going to come out.

[KurtVerbose]

You'd think with all his money and contacts the sweaty prick would at least have hired a decent PR team to prepare for that interview.

His body language and responses were a car crash that even the Duke would be proud of.

His PR guy resigned a couple of weeks ago.

I think we now know why.

[Mutton Geoff]

An elected president will not hold position for life by virtue of birth. I’ve said it before, the same line of thinking that gives us royalty also gives us racism.

What a stupid comment the two biggest racists in the world right now are the president of the USA and the fat oaf currently squatting in number 10,

 preferring a royal head of state with no real power to a system that gives you a twat like Trump wrecking everything around him has got fuck all to do with racism and it sure as hell does not make any royalists racists.

[vagabond]

What a stupid comment the two biggest racists in the world right now are the president of the USA and the fat oaf currently squatting in number 10,

 preferring a royal head of state with no real power to a system that gives you a twat like Trump wrecking everything around him has got fuck all to do with racism and it sure as hell does not make any royalists racists.

Geoff, why are you assuming that there are only 2 options? We can keep the current parliamentary system with a prime minister, just replace the royal family with a head of state that doesn't get to have the job for life and doesn't get to have in on the basis of their family connections. Whoever suggested ripping up the whole system and implementing the American presidential system?

[Lush is the best medicine...]

But how can he not remember ever meeting her, not remember the photo being taken, but specifically remember not having sex with her. That simply doesn't work.

if he’s shagged a lot of women I wouldn’t be shocked if he forgets a good few

[The Test]

if he’s shagged a lot of women I wouldn’t be shocked if he forgets a good few

But the last point is the important one. If he shagged so many women he's forgotten them then surely he can't definitively say he didn't shag her. He's clear and specific on the one point and conveniently vague on the other. Load of shite.

 

[Mutton Geoff]

Geoff, why are you assuming that there are only 2 options? We can keep the current parliamentary system with a prime minister, just replace the royal family with a head of state that doesn't get to have the job for life and doesn't get to have in on the basis of their family connections. Whoever suggested ripping up the whole system and implementing the American presidential system?

Well if you get rid of the royal head of state it becomes a republic, now me personally would not like to see a republic given how unstable quite a few of them have been throughout my life:

Then we come to the other factor, although i think all the hanger ons the aunts cousins, etc we should not be paying for at all,  you have to temper that with how much money they bring into the economy, funnily americans come here in droves fill up our hotels especially in London buy tickets for the shows in the west end etc essentially they do that because of our royal history and the fact that we still have a monarch with all its pomp.
 
Would they be so keen to come if there was some joe bloggs temporarily installed in Buck House for three years then maybe a jenny blogs?

[vagabond]

I don't know, I feel like the pyramids didn't stop getting tourists once the pharoahs stopped ruling.

[Elmo!]

Well if you get rid of the royal head of state it becomes a republic, now me personally would not like to see a republic given how unstable quite a few of them have been throughout my life:

Then we come to the other factor, although i think all the hanger ons the aunts cousins, etc we should not be paying for at all,  you have to temper that with how much money they bring into the economy, funnily americans come here in droves fill up our hotels especially in London buy tickets for the shows in the west end etc essentially they do that because of our royal history and the fact that we still have a monarch with all its pomp.
 
Would they be so keen to come if there was some joe bloggs temporarily installed in Buck House for three years then maybe a jenny blogs?

Which republics are you talking about? I'm sure I could think up many banana monarchies as well that aren't very stable.

Do you know what brings in more tourists than Buckingham Palace? The Palace of Versailles.

The Irish system seems to work quite well, a ceremonial head of state that doesn't getinvolved in politics and everyone seems to like.

[Lush is the best medicine...]

But the last point is the important one. If he shagged so many women he's forgotten them then surely he can't definitively say he didn't shag her. He's clear and specific on the one point and conveniently vague on the other. Load of shite.

 

good point

[cloggypop]

Well if you get rid of the royal head of state it becomes a republic, now me personally would not like to see a republic given how unstable quite a few of them have been throughout my life:

Then we come to the other factor, although i think all the hanger ons the aunts cousins, etc we should not be paying for at all,  you have to temper that with how much money they bring into the economy, funnily americans come here in droves fill up our hotels especially in London buy tickets for the shows in the west end etc essentially they do that because of our royal history and the fact that we still have a monarch with all its pomp.
 
Would they be so keen to come if there was some joe bloggs temporarily installed in Buck House for three years then maybe a jenny blogs?

Versailles gets far more visitors.

[Mutton Geoff]

Which republics are you talking about? I'm sure I could think up many banana monarchies as well that aren't very stable.

Do you know what brings in more tourists than Buckingham Palace? The Palace of Versailles.

The Irish system seems to work quite well, a ceremonial head of state that doesn't getinvolved in politics and everyone seems to like.

Ah but Buck house is only one we have Windsor as well in the london area and Sandringham, Balmoral,for example  in the end it will never happen, no politician in power would coutenence suggesting it as a serious proposal: Not even Marxists

[Elmo!]

Ah but Buck house is only one we have Windsor as well in the london area and Sandringham, Balmoral,for example  in the end it will never happen, no politician in power would coutenence suggesting it as a serious proposal: Not even Marxists

Balmoral gets fuck all tourists (I grew up very near it).

You can add the Louvre to France's list, plus no doubt many others I don't know about.

[So… Howard Philips]

Absolute car crash TV, amazing anyone in the royal household thought that was a good idea (Pizza Express, Can't sweat, Stayed at Epstein's home for 4 days because it was convenient) cheap Omnishambles is the word that springs to mind.

Obviously saving money as he's a grade A sponger.

[So… Howard Philips]

Balmoral gets fuck all tourists (I grew up very near it).

You can add the Louvre to France's list, plus no doubt many others I don't know about.

The Louvre is an art gallery. Compare Versailles to Hampton Court or the Tower of London.

At least the Tower has a bit of blood and guts history, Buck house looks like a faded country hotel.

[Mutton Geoff]

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2019-11-17/the-crown-season-3-netflix-release-date-cast-characters-plot-news-trailer-olivia-colman/

Be a while before they get to Andrew i reckon

[Elmo!]

The Louvre is an art gallery. Compare Versailles to Hampton Court or the Tower of London.

At least the Tower has a bit of blood and guts history, Buck house looks like a faded country hotel.

I know but it used to be a royal palace. Turn Buckingham Palace into an Art Gallery and you could probably get way more than it currently does.

Without the Royals living in it, you could open up the whole building to tourists.

[Crosby Nick]

I know but it used to be a royal palace. Turn Buckingham Palace into an Art Gallery and you could probably get way more than it currently does.

Without the Royals living in it, you could open up the whole building to tourists.

It would make a cracking Wetherspoons or Sports Direct.

[BlackandWhitePaul]

There's only one way to settle it, Get the lying gobshite on the Jerry Springer show