brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
That's more like it.
Prince Harry
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Wonderfully dismissive coverage of them from the South African state broadcaster during their recent trip there. Honestly, these fuckers put host countries to great expense and create a security risk for everyone they visit. I read in horror how some royals are on a tour of tribal areas in N Pakistan. Imagine how the ISI swept through there before their visit and threatened the fuck out of the locals. One royal stopped at a mud hut to talk to a local. You fucking arsehole, putting those poor people at risk. Utter imperialist wankers.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
It's hard to have sympathy for Meghan. She knew exactly what she was getting into marrying into that family.
If you are willing to accept the massive privilege and wealth happily, you must understand there are certain obligations to keep the public happy.
Their gaff cost £30m to refurbish! Thirty fucking million!
If you are willing to accept the massive privilege and wealth happily, you must understand there are certain obligations to keep the public happy.
Their gaff cost £30m to refurbish! Thirty fucking million!
I don't find this difficult. The royal family are an anathema, throwback an embarrassingly explicit symbol of a stultified class riven UK.
But I have no beef with Harry or Megan as individuals. The partisan press and it's backers are more of a threat to democracy and progress than the emcombant royals. Fuck the scum journalists procecuting this grubby, nasty little work. Their trade should get in the grave already.
But I have no beef with Harry or Megan as individuals. The partisan press and it's backers are more of a threat to democracy and progress than the emcombant royals. Fuck the scum journalists procecuting this grubby, nasty little work. Their trade should get in the grave already.
I don't give a shit like, but how could this be true?
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
Yeah, at the very least I'd query the word exactly.
No charities worth giving money here then no tens years of austerity?
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Ok, I'll swap that word for roughly
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
Steel Icarus
we move
I've no interest in them, despite Mrs SI often thrusting pictures of George or whichever under my nose from time to time for some reason - and I genuinely wouldn't go to the end of my street to look at any of them if they visited. But I can't summon any ire for them much, either. Yes, I'd get rid of the whole thing and distribute their lands and assets to everyone, but they seem alright, with the usual caveats. They're just massive beneficiaries from a drastically unfair system but in a sort of benign way so I'm ambivalent really. Megan Markle hasn't done anything wrong and has had some nasty stuff written about her from what I understand, and I can't say I'm going to cheer that.
Politicians and media, well, them I can despise for sure.
Politicians and media, well, them I can despise for sure.
Steel Icarus
we move
Fine, I can dig that
I just mean they're not responsible for things being shit, unlike politcians who can influence things.
I just mean they're not responsible for things being shit, unlike politcians who can influence things.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The ones who marry into it, sure. Not the ones born into it though. They had no choice. Other than children I doubt there are many who'd willigly choose that life.
andysays
Love and solidarity
I agree that they didn't choose to be born into it, but they do, once they're adults, have a choice about whether they carry on with the £30 million refurbishment and all the rest of it.
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
I seem to have got me figures a little mixed up. The wedding cost £30m. The refurbishment only cost a paltry £2.4m
andysays
Love and solidarity
Whatever the figures, the point is the same. If any of them are really that concerned about their personal role in perpetuating a politically abhorrent anachronism, they can walk away at any time.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
I'm willing to give it a go. I'm good at wandering around shaking hands.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Whoever wins, I couldn't give a shit.
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
The wrong kind of press restrictions resulting from one corner of press being a particular kind of shitty: not good
Shitty press getting away with badly-disguised racism under guise of covering stupid anachronistic circus - not good
Yeah, is just a matter of whether you have a strong preference for one kind of crap over another, I guess.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
They do have a choice, they can quit and fuck off to france like eddie the nazi
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
While I agree in principle that if they don't like it, they could chin it off and go and be Mr and Mrs Smith of Nuneton, I wonder if that's actually true - if Harry and Meghan renounced their place in the succession, the civil list and pissed off to live on a farm in Arizona or Northumberland, would the press leave them alone, or would they just be exactly the same prisoners of speculative 'journalism' and endless paparazzi for the next 50 years even if their only 'public' appearences were shopping in the Morrisons in Berwick-upon-Tweed or getting the car serviced in Tucson?
I'm afraid I believe that there just isn't an escape route that they just choose not to use - I think they could renounce it all and they'd be hounded till the end of their days, so they may as well keep the money and the flunkies and the adoration of the mad old grannies...
I'm afraid I believe that there just isn't an escape route that they just choose not to use - I think they could renounce it all and they'd be hounded till the end of their days, so they may as well keep the money and the flunkies and the adoration of the mad old grannies...
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Possibly not although I might be a bit more sympathetic to them. Probably not though. Fuck them really
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
They are a sideshow. Not sufficiently relevant to be worth any real anger.
Given how old Harry was when he lost his Mum, I can understand his grudge against the Press.
T & P
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Sorry, I have to disagree. No one is denying the Royals enjoy an absurdly and unfairly privileged life and will naturally attract a significant amount of press scrutiny and coverage. But that does not justify any Riyal being subjected to unnecessarily intrusive, abusing or least of all borderline racist articles that have fuck all to do with public interest or press freedom, any more than a Premiership footballer does regardless of what ludicrous wages he gets paid.
If I were a celebrity regularly targeted by the tabloids I swear I would team up with other celebs and start up a gossip website targeting family members of of the owners and editors of all the tabloids and publishing images of them going shopping or relaxing in their gardens or on their boats. I reckon they’d soon give orders to ease up on their celebrity coverage.
Harry and his American bride will be divorced within 2 years
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