macliam

Revolution in the UK is about as likely as a donkey winning Ascot.....

007Steve

Sadly, from my viewpoint, you’re completely right Maclaim.
Brits have been conditioned into petrification about taking this final, albeit ruthless step, to scrap this anachronism, and create a modern State.

On the same day that the (alleged) Govt. announces it’s post-Brexit strategic plan ;- robots, cyber, pharma, etc. (why IS everyone’s smiling like that....?) this bunch of in-breds announce a wedding - and we know who’ll be paying. I struggle to think of any other nation where the head of state makes a virtue of not knowing or contributing to any part of national policy……...
Something’s got to give; - maybe, when the present incumbent shuffles off, the next generation will begin to ask a few hard questions. V sad

Expatrick

Steve, I think you are misreading this! The timing (for the Govt.) is spot on - nothing like a royal wedding to distract the populace - & with a bit of luck she will get pregnant next year, with a due date of, let me see, April 2019 - perfect! Now that is contributing!

macliam

............ and she's American. None of yer poncy continentals!!
So, an early trade agreement -Trump as best man? Will James Hewitt be at the top table?

Oh, dear. looks like I'll be out that day (whenever it is...)

Bahtatboy

Had to laugh at some of the comments from viewers on Sky news just now. Along with lovey-dovey stuff and criticisms of who's going to pay for it all, was someone from Africa voicing amazement that a country can still cling to an out-dated system of royalty. Yep, let's replace that with dynastic and opportunistic thugs, a la Mugabe, Gadaffi, Eyadema, Al-Bashir, Idi Amin, Mubarak et al.

Expatrick

American and a divorcée! - maybe she will become Duchess of Windsor?

As for poncy continentals, a bit of central / eastern European might have improved the gene pool a bit

mikelincs

Duchess of Sussex is the favourite, but yes, Wills marries a commoner, Harry is to marry a commoner, American, divorcee and even not white. I bet Diana is cheering so loud as to who she brought into this world and the way they are shaking up royal traditions.

Lion in Winter

And a Catholic.

Maybe we will be under Spain's dominion again?

Bahtatboy

Man in very silly hat can't understand thought processes or other people who listen to other men in very silly hats:



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ushpmg00000009

Take religion out of the equation, and you genuinely couldn't make this stuff up. (Well, good authors can, in the vein of Pratchett, Rowling and Peake.)

Expatrick

Plenty of Lutherans here!

Expatrick

Talking of Duchess of Windsor - something slightly familiar in the jaw line...

Cape Blue

Brexit was the revolution - the working-class stepped up and took control.

macliam

Yeah, yeah! Next you'll be telling me the Tommies in WW1 went "over the top" because they fancied a stroll!! The same donkeys who were behind them laid the foundations for BREXIT.

Years of negative reporting by the British press, years of denial of positive EU actions, years of whining by the eurosceptics on both sides of the argument (Corbyn is one too) and a campaign where both sides told lies and they knew they'd left it too late to educate the populace and so didn't try. Plus a good dose of nostalgia, xenophobia and an unanswered concern for the way things are going, coupled with politicians who have minimal traction with the voters ..... all led to a vote which narrowly came down on the leave side.

However, it is not the vote, it is the reaction to the vote where it goes pear-shaped ..... a combination of half-truths, wild speculation and the desire to find a scapegoat for when it all goes wrong wave been the hallmarks of the BREXIT talks.

You couldn't make it up.

Lion in Winter

Really? Who do you view as the working class, and what do they now control?

moneypenny20

But she's not because she's dead and if I read one more thing about sodding Diana and what she did/didn't/might/might not do/think I may break something. Not having a go at you but the sodding world in general. It's 2017, regardless of who Prince Charles married and had children with, things have changed since the 50s/60s/70s etc and the Royal Family, and more especially the Queen have moved forward.

Ok so that was a bit of a rant over something that doesn't matter but far out, the woman is long gone and most of William and Harry's upbringing was done by Charles.