I am trying to work out your logic here. Ukrainians in the service of the Nazis killed Belarussians and Poles. Russians in the service of the Stalinists killed Poles. Ergo, Russians killing Ukrainians is ok? Help us out here…
and the comment of the Polish minister is telling. It is a fundamental issue, but one that is part of their overall relationship, not a basis for wholesale slaughter of Ukrainians.
https://x.com/france_lou/status/1854129260518138159
This is awful. The monarchy are not looking good these days
It never did to be honest Maria.
The whole idea that one family is better than everyone else is ridiculous if you think about it.
You are talking to our resident ultra chauvinistic Black Shirt. I don’t have him on ignore, but I just try to ignore his existance, which is rather easy since he never says anything sensible other than to reinforce his Pro fascist positions now and then, so he never really a provokes a comment out of me. I suspect he was once a leftist before a Russian horseshoe got stuck in his brain.
Yes, i wasn’t pro or anti monarchy but now, they are taking the UK people for a ride. They should pay tax like the rest of us minions and not be above the law.
They’ve been taking us for a ride since Alfred the Great, at least.
The problem is, there some people in the UK who think that monarchy is part of who Britain is and “it makes us proud to be British”, the Royals promote the UK abroad for Business, (ok to line most of their pockets).
Somehow, they will still be around in this country. Maybe the countries who still have Charles as head of state become a Republic and show they are now irrelevant
I think I posted this before, but one of the government departments I worked in had the Duke of Kent as a trade envoy. As far as I can tell he did a lot of good work in promoting business. However, I can remember one of my colleagues sending me a picture of her posing for a photograph with his American counterpart, who was Neil Armstrong. Literally, the guy who first stepped on the moon which, with the best will in the world, is much cooler then the Queen’s cousin.
I would have thought recent political events around the world would have disabused you of this notion. He might be much cooler to you, but you just know there will be many who prefer to worship royalty instead.
Is he still around? I liked him and his wife. They used present Wimbledon trophies together.
The Royals have their own internal rifts. Charlie is trying to evict his brother. Maybe the Windsor firm will combust at some point.
I agree @Bekloppt , Royals need to be gone now.
In my family, especially the women, my mum’s generation. They loved watching programmes on the royals and they would watch all the royal weddings:sob:
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Yes, although I don’t think he has any official positions. He used to be president of the FA as well. I think I remember his wife presenting the trophies at Wimbledon.
She was lovely, very down to earth character.
They’re German anyway aren’t they?
Let them have them.
Thats the tip of their iceburg. The Duchy pull in rent and the like all over the place.
Gwynedd CC have started pushing back against costs for public access to a beach.
Stinks
He passed on a dozen years ago. Lived to a ripe old age.
They had a revolution in 1918 and got rid of them. UK’s problem now.
I think @Maria was referring to the Duke of Kent, not Neil Armstrong.
“They had a revolution in 1918 and got rid of them. UK’s problem now.”
Why are they on here moaning about them then?