Monarchy debate/discussion

[Florentine_Pogen]

5 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

There’s a coming together of Jeremy Corbyn, David Davis and The FSU to campaign for all those arrested to be discharged on the grounds of freedom of speech.

Just shows that all sides of the political spectrum can come together when required.

 

[DiegoDiego]

I doubt even Jimmy Savile could have had managed one last feel through an inch of oak.

What a virtue signaling c**t. And what the f**k was "daunting" about it?

[Dan Steele]

3 hours ago, williemillersmoustache said:

This made me chortle.

Other than wave and go on holiday, using a fountain pen is pretty much the only thing he has had to actually learn to do his "job." Doesn't bode terribly well does it. 

 

 

Just waiting to find out he's allergic to paint fumes.

[DA Baracus]

[coprolite]

25 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

There’s a coming together of Jeremy Corbyn, David Davis and The FSU to campaign for all those arrested to be discharged on the grounds of freedom of speech.

Just shows that all sides of the political spectrum can come together when required.

FSU took me a minute, I originally thought of FSM which would be good to see.

[BFTD]

2 minutes ago, coprolite said:

FSU took me a minute, I originally thought of FSM which would be good to see.

Damned sight less embarrassing to contribute money to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and hope It will help you when you're punted from a notorious Scottish football forum  

[Mark Connolly]

4 minutes ago, coprolite said:

FSU took me a minute, I originally thought of FSM which would be good to see.

Or the FSB...

[Boo Khaki]

33 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

There’s a coming together of Jeremy Corbyn, David Davis and The FSU to campaign for all those arrested to be discharged on the grounds of freedom of speech.

Just shows that all sides of the political spectrum can come together when required.

I suspect the PF will just bin the case against the young lad who was nicked for being assaulted in the Canongate, but then PF is an apparatus of State, so who knows.

Edited September 14, 2022 by Boo Khaki

[welshbairn]

Quote

Charles III (839 – 13 January 888), also known as Charles the Fat, was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 888. Usually considered lethargic and inept, Charles twice purchased peace with Viking raiders, including at the infamous Siege of Paris which led to his downfall. During a coup led by his nephew Arnulf of Carinthia in November 887, Charles was deposed in East Francia, Lotharingia, and the Kingdom of Italy. Forced into quiet retirement, he died of natural causes in January 888, just a few weeks after his deposition. The Empire quickly fell apart after his death, splintering into five separate successor kingdoms; the territory it had occupied was not entirely reunited under one ruler until the conquests of Napoleon.

Charles the Fat.

[Boghead ranter]

This procession has the best big drum since last time an orange walk passed a chapel.

[Salt n Vinegar]

Just wondering - if the Australian grandfather who claims to be Charlie and Cam's son gets his dna test and it proves his royal lineage, will the adoring royalists have to accept King Simon instead of Billy? Is "illegitimacy" still a thing these days? 

 

[Dunfermline Don]

5 hours ago, williemillersmoustache said:

This made me chortle.

Other than wave and go on holiday, using a fountain pen is pretty much the only thing he has had to actually learn to do his "job." Doesn't bode terribly well does it. 

 

 

It must be pretty s**** though, you wait years to get the job you have been promised all your life only to find out they don’t give you any compassionate leave for a close family bereavement!

[supermik]

Just waiting for someone to superglue themselves to that big candlestick next to her coffin.

[Florentine_Pogen]

2 minutes ago, supermik said:

Just waiting for someone to superglue themselves to that big candlestick next to her coffin.

Prince Wullie will be eyeing that jealously.............................

[Clown Job]

5 hours ago, renton said:

While the Darien fiasco ended up with a lot of private debt (as opposed to national debt) it's not why the Act of Union happened, rather it was the threatened English economic blockade of Scotland that pushed the Scots to the negotiating table. Paying off Darien was just a sop that the Scots aristocrats managed to get levered in.

The Aliens Act

The Alien Act was a law passed by the Parliament of England in February 1705, as a response to the Parliament of Scotland's Act of Security of 1704, which in turn was partially a response to the English Act of Settlement 1701. Lord Godolphin, the Lord High Treasurer, was instrumental in the Union of 1707 and all the Acts leading up to it. The Alien Act was passed to prevent the inconveniences that would occur hastily if these two Kingdoms were not to become one Union.[1]

The Alien Act provided that Scottish nationals in England were to be treated as aliens (foreign nationals), and estates held by Scots would be treated as alien property,[2] making inheritancemuch less certain. It also included an embargo on the import of Scottish products into England and English colonies – about half of Scotland's trade, covering goods such as linen, cattle and coal.[3]There was also an embargo on the export of arms, ammunition, and horses to Scotland so that they could not raise an army and invade England.[4]Faced with the economic pressure the Scots decided to unionize, something that certain interests in England had wanted for over a century. With the Union in 1707 free trade was established along with a single parliament.

The Act contained a provision that it would be suspended if the Scots entered into negotiations regarding a proposed union of the parliaments of Scotland and England. The Act demanded that a settlement of succession or authorize union negotiation by December 25, 1705.[5] The Scots insisted that the Alien Act be repealed before entering into treaty negotiations.[6] In late December, news that both the Commons and the Lords had agreed to repeal the act reached the north.[7] Combined with English financial offers to refund Scottish losses on the Darien scheme, the Act achieved its aim, leading to the Acts of Union 1707uniting the two countries as the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

 

 

[BFTD]

King Chuck's clearly going to get it tight, judging by the meme generation output during the period when folk are surely going easy on him.

He'll probably hang on to the end of the season, but by Christmas folk will be talking about moving him up to Director of Football, and bringing in the hot young bumhole enthusiast from Chazza's old job.

[Antlion]

1 hour ago, BFTD said:

King Chuck's clearly going to get it tight, judging by the meme generation output during the period when folk are surely going easy on him.

He'll probably hang on to the end of the season, but by Christmas folk will be talking about moving him up to Director of Football, and bringing in the hot young bumhole enthusiast from Chazza's old job.

 

[KirkieRR]

Get it On is great. Bryan 'Always Talks Over the End of Long Instrumental Playouts' Burnett is the problem.

 

Over to you, Chazza the King.

[Florentine_Pogen]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/15/king-charles-billionaire-inheritance-tax-heating-eating

"During that soggy afternoon when the Queen was still said to be only ill, the BBC’s Clive Myrie was filling time. Only hours before, he noted, Liz Truss had been making “a rather important statement” on just how families would pay their heating bills this winter. All was now “insignificant”. It was, the usually excellent presenter later admitted, “a poor choice of word”.

Except it wasn’t. If anything, it was painfully on the nose. The man on the TV unwittingly but precisely anticipated how the financial crisis engulfing millions of Britons would be treated in the coming days: as a matter of no consequence. In Tuesday’s Daily Mail, it took until page 28 to crop up. In that day’s Sun, page 20. The Times and the Telegraph yawned it off altogether.

Our MPs have been worse. Last Thursday, the new prime minister set out a plan to cap energy costs. Tagged at £150bn, it’s easily the single biggest fiscal intervention by any government since the second world war – a vast sum that these Tory tailenders seem determined to spend as badly and unfairly as possible. To take one example: the 4.5 million people on pre-pay meters will get zero extra help from Truss. And another: the churches and community centres hosting the food banks that will be a lifeline to millions this winter will only get a few months’ help.

Rather than scrutinise these measures, MPs spent two long days delivering tributes to the monarchy, such as this from the former minister Tracey Crouch: “Our six-year-old took my hand in his and said, ‘Don’t worry, Mummy: the King will look after us now.’ He is right. God save the King.” Thus were you served by your representatives – and now parliament is shut for 10 days, and the next month will be dominated by party conferences."