$deity wept

[Tongs ya bas]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/millions-benefits-frozen-tories-confirm-11596715

 

probably should be filed under 'those nice tories', but they've slipped it down the blindside whilst people have been slavering over Harry Mountbatten.

 

 

[Saintslass]

6 hours ago, ckn said:

While I'm on it, I'm no fan of the Queen, she intrudes into politics far too much for my liking, the recent "leaks" from Buck Palace, about how she's been unhappy about certain things our democratically elected Prime Minister has been doing and how the democratically elected Leader of the Opposition has used a Parliamentary procedure that invokes her name, are out of order.

On your second point, about the procedure, according to the BBC at the time Labour invoked it, she is actually entitled to comment upon it.  It's probably about the only bit of parliamentary business she is allowed to comment upon.

[Robin Evans]

I've already booked to go to France in May...... here's hoping I've booked the corresponding week!

[Shadow]

Just now, Robin Evans said:

I've already booked to go to France in May...... here's hoping I've booked the corresponding week!

It'll be empty, they don't have a royal family.

[Robin Evans]

On the day of the diamond jubilee it was lagging down in London.

I was with the memsahib and best mates enjoying a fabulous lunch in Amboise..... in the yard of the royal chateau. Such memories stick.

Vive la république ?

[bazzzz65]

5 hours ago, Martyn Sadler said:

If and when it does, that's when you had better learn how to be sycophantic.

After all, you can say what you like about the British royal family and you need never feel in any danger.

Do the same thing in some Republics that I assume you might approve of, for example Cuba, and you would soon find that the state would be breathing down your neck.

Of the 52 Commonwealth countries, there are 16 that still have the Queen as Head of State.

My bet, as a broad generalisation, is that you would much rather live in the majority of those 16 countries than in most of those that don't have her as Head of State.

Malaysia is a reasonably democratic country and doesn't t have the Queen as head of state. It s not perfect but where is?

[bazzzz65]

2 hours ago, Bleep1673 said:

Look at it this way, it's less than 100 years since a King had to abdicate because he wanted to marry an American divorcee.

When did the law change saying that a senior member of the royal family could not marry a divorced person? Also she went to a catholic school. Years ago the same ban applied to Catholics? When did this ban be abolished?

[Stevo]

1 hour ago, bazzzz65 said:

When did the law change saying that a senior member of the royal family could not marry a divorced person? Also she went to a catholic school. Years ago the same ban applied to Catholics? When did this ban be abolished?

The divorce thing is not really law, and more CofE theology and practice - and they removed the restriction on divorcees remarrying in a CofE church a few years ago.

I believe that Catholics can still not legally be monarch, but the spouse of a monarch (or spouse of another member of the royal family) can be Catholic. Happily and just in case, the BBC have today unearthed the news that Harry's intended is in fact Protestant (we await, all agog, to discover whether she is of the Calvanist, Baptist or Lutheran persausion) and will be baptised/ confirmed as such before the big day.

[Phil]

1 hour ago, bazzzz65 said:

When did the law change saying that a senior member of the royal family could not marry a divorced person? Also she went to a catholic school. Years ago the same ban applied to Catholics? When did this ban be abolished?

The Church of England was created to allow a monarch to divorce 

[Kayakman]

1 hour ago, bazzzz65 said:

When did the law change saying that a senior member of the royal family could not marry a divorced person? Also she went to a catholic school. Years ago the same ban applied to Catholics? When did this ban be abolished?

 

3 minutes ago, Stevo said:

The divorce thing is not really law, and more CofE theology and practice - and they removed the restriction on divorcees remarrying in a CofE church a few years ago.

I believe that Catholics can still not legally be monarch, but the spouse of a monarch (or spouse of another member of the royal family) can be Catholic. Happily and just in case, the BBC have today unearthed the news that Harry's intended is in fact Protestant (we await, all agog, to discover whether she is of the Calvanist, Baptist or Lutheran persausion) and will be baptised/ confirmed as such before the big day.

You people have got to remove yourselves from the Dark Ages...like talk about backwards thinking...its currently 2017

[Bob8]

15 minutes ago, Kayakman said:

 

You people have got to remove yourselves from the Dark Ages...like talk about backwards thinking...its currently 2017

How do you decide your Head of State?

 

[terrywebbisgod]

It reminds me of the line in Blazing Saddles;

"To tell a family secret,my grandmother was Dutch"

[JonM]

1 hour ago, Kayakman said:

You people have got to remove yourselves from the Dark Ages...like talk about backwards thinking...its currently 2017

Indeed. We left the dark ages in 2013 when Nick Clegg got the "Succession to the Crown Act" through parliament, which meant that those in line to the throne could marry Catholics (and no longer needed the monarch's permission to marry.) The monarch still has to be a protestant obvs.

This didn't take effect until 2015 because some countries (step forward the Aussies) took a bit longer to get the relevant legislation passed.

[Tongs ya bas]

1 hour ago, Phil said:

The Church of England was created to allow a monarch to divorce 

And trouser, or should it be doublet and hose? A load of dosh.

[Tongs ya bas]

2 hours ago, bazzzz65 said:

When did the law change saying that a senior member of the royal family could not marry a divorced person? Also she went to a catholic school. Years ago the same ban applied to Catholics? When did this ban be abolished?

You don't have to be a Catholic to go to a Catholic school

[Padge]

4 hours ago, Tongs ya bas said:

You don't have to be a Catholic to go to a Catholic school

Only if the Catholic School takes government dosh, if they don't they can please themselves, if they do then they have a "quota" that must be "other".

 

[Kayakman]

6 hours ago, Bob8 said:

How do you decide your Head of State?

 

Okay...you've got a point there...I'll concede it...but it don't make it right!

[Kayakman]

5 hours ago, JonM said:

Indeed. We left the dark ages in 2013 when Nick Clegg got the "Succession to the Crown Act" through parliament, which meant that those in line to the throne could marry Catholics (and no longer needed the monarch's permission to marry.) The monarch still has to be a protestant obvs.

This didn't take effect until 2015 because some countries (step forward the Aussies) took a bit longer to get the relevant legislation passed.

Alright..alright...I've already been clipped by Bob8..I've got ya...got ya!

[Kayakman]

1 hour ago, Padge said:

Only if the Catholic School takes government dosh, if they don't they can please themselves, if they do then they have a "quota" that must be "other".

 

You people have got to remove yourselves from the Dark Ages...like talk about backwards thinking...its currently 2017

LOOK AT WHAT YOU"RE DOIN TO ME FELLAS:  I'm back where I started!

I'm caught in an endless loop...got to get out...like Tonga did in the last 7 minutes?!

[Old Frightful]

I wonder what Harry's dad thinks of it all.

Has anybody asked him?

[Robin Evans]

5 minutes ago, Old Frightful said:

I wonder what Harry's dad thinks of it all.

Has anybody asked him?

Errrrr........ let me think what my considered response should be....

Forums rules etc

[Old Frightful]

4 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

Errrrr........ let me think what my considered response should be....

Forums rules etc

It could have started with "No, but Prince Charles, etc, etc...".

 

[Tongs ya bas]

8 hours ago, Padge said:

Only if the Catholic School takes government dosh, if they don't they can please themselves, if they do then they have a "quota" that must be "other".

 

Aye

 

[Spidey]

15 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

On the day of the diamond jubilee it was lagging down in London.

I was with the memsahib and best mates enjoying a fabulous lunch in Amboise..... in the yard of the royal chateau. Such memories stick.

Vive la république ?

Everybody got a an extra day off work didn’t they?. I chose to work and on William’s wedding. That was my peaceful protest 

[Robin Evans]

10 minutes ago, Spidey said:

Everybody got a an extra day off work didn’t they?. I chose to work and on William’s wedding. That was my peaceful protest 

I wasn't allowed access to the building.

I went away and 'lost' a day annual leave that year..... a day I neither asked for or wanted.

I'm a daft ar se. I should have just taken it like every bug ger else.