Royal Wedding.

[Ken L]

Out alternative would be a despot ? Nice, thanks

 

Just like those tin pot dictatorships that they have in France ? Germany ? The United States ?

Oh. Wait a minute, they don't have despots do they ?

 

The idea that you can't have a democraticaly run and despot free country without a monarch is almost as tired as the idea that you can't have morals without religion and it's equally false.

Think about it for a moment, in another age, Sadam Husain, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, General Franco, Kim Jong-il and many others would have called themselves "King". That's what monarch is, an absolute ruler, unelected and passing on power as they see fit.

Cromwell clipped the wings of our monachy and they now have a non-executive role with no power at all. They're just a bunch of upper class yahoos funded by the state - expensive benefit claimers if you will.

Yes, they're a fine rallying point for those with jingoistic tendancies and the blue rinse brigade but that's no reason to keep them, nor is the tourism income argument, the DfCMS are rather shy of providing tourist income figures for Buck House but I rather suspect that The Palace of Versailles tops it.

[Sharkbyte]

Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to see any of the royal wedding, but from what I've been told it was a fairly low-key event with the young lady even wearing a secondhand tiara.

 

Shame - had this lilly livered Government have slung a few million 'civil servants' on the dole, and clawed back the pensions of a few million more, those left could have enjoyed a proper celebration, and Catherine could have had her own tiara.

[Little Roachess]

Well, I enjoyed the whole day in front of the TV and watching the whole of the Wedding enfold before me in clear HD, as the media kept plugging when they weren't waxing lyrical over Kate's dress! I hope the couple have gone up to Balmoral for the Salmon-after all, they've been what my Granny would call "living over the brush" for the best part of 6yrs, know each other, partied out, and so they know what to expect from each other, after 10mins, what else is there to do but fish??? I don't see the sporty couple settling down in their matching slippers and his n hers towels after 6pm on a Saturday night, do you?

 

Whatever they are doing, or do in the future, really is none of our business, but I do hope that they have a very happy and exciting future together....................xx Bless the Happy Royals.