King Charles III

[Tony L]

Mick P is a grifter?

Lets just say I have little respect for his career path which, from what he has endlessly boasted here, was built upon stabbing Royal Mail trade unionists in the back after grabbing a full gold-plated pension they had won, and then moving off into grotesquely overpaid PFI spivery at all our expense. PFI was arguably the biggest grift of the modern era. Certainly until the covid, freeports etc scams the full on shamelessly criminal modern Tories (not Mick to my knowledge) have moved onto. I personally view Tories as inherently crooked. There is always a hand in the public purse somewhere. It may not be illegal under the laws they have defined for themselves, but it is certainly not moral. Not IMHO anyway.

 

[ks.234]

You are stating your case now, so you have every opportunity to vote for a party that supports your views. Your problem is that most people switch between Labour and Tory on a regular basis, they just pick the better one at the time and both generally will never abolish the Monarchy.

You argue your case well but you really are in a minority on this and you have a tremendous slog ahead of you to get them removed.

Yes, very agree that getting rid of the monarchy is difficult, but it is the very fact that a anti-democratic institution like the monarchy is so engrained into our democracy that underlines one of the fundamental weakness of democracy itself.

 

[Barrymagrec]

The world situation can`t be nearly as bad as some make out, the main news in most papers today is that Bigears went to church yesterday.

 

[Mick P]

The world situation can`t be nearly as bad as some make out, the main news in most papers today is that Bigears went to church yesterday.

Whether or not you think of it as trivia, billions of people cast over the globe are interested and that's why it's a regular topic.

 

[Nic Robinson]

It being trivia and billions of people being interested in it are not mutually exclusive.

 

[Kirk]

The King is back.

 

[notaclue]

The world situation can`t be nearly as bad as some make out, the main news in most papers today is that Bigears went to church yesterday.

That's King Bigears to you.

I liked how King Charlie used his Easter message to say Jesus set an "example of how we should serve and care for each other" and he follows Jesus' example "not to be served but to serve".

Presumably Charlie ignores any awkward bits about Jesus not really supporting living in multiple palaces and employing servants to iron your shoelaces and boil your eggs.

 

[ks.234]

That's King Bigears to you.

I liked how King Charlie used his Easter message to say Jesus set an "example of how we should serve and care for each other" and he follows Jesus' example "not to be served but to serve".

The fact that such wild hypocrisy is imbibed without question is symptomatic of our growing democratic deficit

 

[Enfield boy]

I hope the tide is turning. 'King Cnut.

 

[Dogberry]

Leaving hospital.
If he gave a solitary f*ck about his subjects.
Estimated 14,000 excess deaths due to A&E wait times.

England A&E wait times led to needless deaths of up to 14,000, data suggests

RCEM calculates 268 people are likely to have died each week in 2023 while waiting up to 12 hours for a bed

www.theguardian.com

 

[ks.234]

Leaving hospital.
If he gave a solitary f*ck about his subjects.
Estimated 14,000 excess deaths due to A&E wait times.

England A&E wait times led to needless deaths of up to 14,000, data suggests

RCEM calculates 268 people are likely to have died each week in 2023 while waiting up to 12 hours for a bed

www.theguardian.com

If Charles was serious about “serving”, he would serve those on waiting lists. He could serve them just by saying something. But he chooses silence.

He doesn’t because he actually has no conception of what the life of the majority of his subjects is like. He is ignorant of most people’s reality

 

[TheFlash]

This thread popped up under New Posts so thought I'd drop by for the first time and see what it's all about. I think I have the gist of it. Seems a few people don't like having a king.

 

[notaclue]

I recognise only one king.

 

[ff1d1l]

This thread popped up under New Posts so thought I'd drop by for the first time and see what it's all about. I think I have the gist of it. Seems a few people don't like having a king.

I didn't vote for him.

 

[ks.234]

This thread popped up under New Posts so thought I'd drop by for the first time and see what it's all about. I think I have the gist of it. Seems a few people don't like having a king.

Perhaps those that do like having a King should pay for him.

 

[TheFlash]

Perhaps those that do like having a King should pay for him.

Great idea. We could do the same with say Prime Ministers.

 

[TheFlash]

I didn't vote for him.

I'm guessing you didn't vote for Sunak either. Yes, I know we vote for our constituency MP, a mere technicality.

Crikey, if we can have a referendum on something as epoch-shaping as Brexit, holding a referendum on abolishing the monachy shouldn't be too hard.

 

[ks.234]

Great idea. We could do the same with say Prime Ministers.

Prime ministers are part of the democratic process. Our King and his hangers on is in every way antithetical to the very idea of democracy

 

[Barrymagrec]

I'm guessing you didn't vote for Sunak either. Yes, I know we vote for our constituency MP, a mere technicality.

Very few people voted for Sunak - 36693 in Richmond, no other vote in involved but he became PM anyway.....

Good stuff, Democracy.

 

[ks.234]

Very few people voted for Sunak - 36693 in Richmond, no other vote in involved but he became PM anyway.....

Good stuff, Democracy.

Still preferable to the divine right of Kings