Dr Gloom 21422 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 even staunch royalists would find it difficult to defend this suggestion in the current economic climate. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/15/queen-royal-yacht-diamond-jubilee-gove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 £60m is a small price to pay for making the Tories look like the utter cunts they really are imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 As long as the Italians build it/man it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21422 Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 As long as the Italians build it/man it. ooooh. bad taste but i like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 29594 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 They read out a text from a listener on 5 Live earlier suggesting that it's the least we could do for the Queen after all she has done for us. They were entirely serious too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4666 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Politicians, detached from reality in a way only people in power can be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41438 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I'd contribute to this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7065 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 A splendid idea! Prince Philip can come round and do me up the arse too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Politicians, detached from reality in a way only people in power can be Gove is a particular type though. You can tell he went to Oxford and is probably a sexual deviant with rubber dinghys in his basement. I think it's embarrassing that we still have a monarchy and I've yet to hear a compelling moral case for monarchy. This system means that when the Queen dies, a bloke who thinks Uri Gellar really has supernatural powers--he also talks to plants and would rather fuck horsey-face over Diana Spencer--will become head of the COE, head of the military and head of state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Fucking leeches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleeToonFan 1 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Politicians, detached from reality in a way only people in power can be Gove is a particular type though. You can tell he went to Oxford and is probably a sexual deviant with rubber dinghys in his basement. I think it's embarrassing that we still have a monarchy and I've yet to hear a compelling moral case for monarchy. This system means that when the Queen dies, a bloke who thinks Uri Gellar really has supernatural powers--he also talks to plants and would rather fuck horsey-face over Diana Spencer--will become head of the COE, head of the military and head of state. Don't give a shit one way or the other but I do like having a Queen/King as opposed to a President esque figure as the executive. Also I imagine the monarchy bring a fair bit in through tourism. You know the sorta Americans in shorts and a shirt tucked in with a different colour cap on taking pictures from his 1990s camera on a string around his neck actually expecting to meet the Queen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 If we got rid of the monarchy we'd end up with some ubercunt like Tony Blair as a life president á la what Putin is doing in Russia. I'd take an inbred oddball over a dangerous, weasely tosspot any day. Also, at least having a royal family provides some continuity with things. MPs just try and feather their nests as much as possible in the four short years they have, totally fucking the country over in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 42987 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 What's up with Gove's permanent pet lip. Looks like he's been kissing the iron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 42987 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Googled Michael Gove's lips to see if he had actually kissed a hot plate, and found this. MICHAEL Gove says it’s OK for music teacher to touch pupils. His advice forms part of the Education Secretary’s Keeping Children safe in Music Drive. He says: “Whether it’s adjusting the position of a violin or demonstrating how to handle drumsticks,showing how a trombone slide should work or introducing new subtleties in oboe playing, teachers should be trusted to touch children without feeling they are somehow transgressing the rules.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Politicians, detached from reality in a way only people in power can be Gove is a particular type though. You can tell he went to Oxford and is probably a sexual deviant with rubber dinghys in his basement. I think it's embarrassing that we still have a monarchy and I've yet to hear a compelling moral case for monarchy. This system means that when the Queen dies, a bloke who thinks Uri Gellar really has supernatural powers--he also talks to plants and would rather fuck horsey-face over Diana Spencer--will become head of the COE, head of the military and head of state. Don't give a shit one way or the other but I do like having a Queen/King as opposed to a President esque figure as the executive. Also I imagine the monarchy bring a fair bit in through tourism. You know the sorta Americans in shorts and a shirt tucked in with a different colour cap on taking pictures from his 1990s camera on a string around his neck actually expecting to meet the Queen. When the monarchy decides to marry off one of the Princes to an aristocrat or social-climber, there is a national holiday: Friday, normally a work day, is a national holiday, meaning a considerable output drop. How big? The Confederation of British Industry estimated in 2007 that each additional holiday costs the economy something like £6 billion. And that estimate might be low. The Kate-and-Wills special holiday happens to fall in between an official Easter holiday and the May bank holiday. The way the calendar works out, Britons can take an 11-day vacation using only three vacation days. And Pricewaterhouse Cooper estimates that as many as 6 million workers might do so. The result is an economy-wide productivity slowdown in the final two weeks of the month, cutting £5 billion or more from GDP this quarter—though the effect should quickly fade as Britons' bosses prod them to work harder once they get back. Still, the argument that the wedding will be a net loss for the economy seems convincing: The low estimate of productivity-related costs swamps the high estimate of consumer-spending gains. Broadly speaking, monarchists tend to justify the cost of the royal family by noting their positive impact on tourism—making the Windsor family the stuffy analog of, say, Australia's kangaroos or China's pandas. The British tourist authority estimates that the royals are responsible for £500 million of tourist spending per year. Granted, it gets to this figure through some squirrelly math. Culture and heritage sites, meaning everything "from theaters, galleries, to pubs, Premiership Football, castles and stately homes" generate about £4.6 billion in tourist spending per year and account for 100,000 jobs, the group says. It estimates that one in eight of those sites is "associated with monarchy," resulting in the £500 million or so of royally related spending. But this does not account for the fact that many of those sites have only a distant whiff of monarchy about them. People visit the Tower of London for Henry VIII's history, not fascination with the current royals. Still, surely the British monarchy does help make the country an enormously popular tourist destination—look at all the people heading to London just to celebrate Kate and Wills. And the most honest accounting may come from the Queen herself. Every year, the royal household releases a detailed list of its expenses to the taxpayers. Last year, it required £38.2 million in public spending, down from an inflation-adjusted £87.3 million in 1992. That means the Queen cost taxpayers just 62 pence per person. Sounds like value for money to me. Personally I want my 62p back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Googled Michael Gove's lips to see if he had actually kissed a hot plate, and found this. MICHAEL Gove says it's OK for music teacher to touch pupils. His advice forms part of the Education Secretary's Keeping Children safe in Music Drive. He says: "Whether it's adjusting the position of a violin or demonstrating how to handle drumsticks,showing how a trombone slide should work or introducing new subtleties in oboe playing, teachers should be trusted to touch children without feeling they are somehow transgressing the rules." I had a female guitar teacher up till I was 14 and I stopped formal lessons. She used to touch me, to display various finger techniques. Needless to say I got an erection during one of the lessons, but fortunately I was able to conceal it behind the guitar. I remember thinking, "oh well, she can't see it, may as well sit back and enjoy this." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 41438 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Fucking leeches. No, horse- faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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