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Author: | HeatherKay [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:20 am ] | |||||||||
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/1 ... CMP=twt_gu
Words fail me. |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:00 am ] | |||||||||
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They don't fail me. [LIFTED] off. |
Author: | HeatherKay [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:05 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Give the Queen a new yacht? |
Here's the answer... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-16562289 |
Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:52 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Give the Queen a new yacht? |
This idea needs to be killed off, very quickly. Otherwise, some pillock will commission a feasibility study that will cost us more than the bloody boat. |
Author: | lumbthelesser [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:48 pm ] | |||||||||
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Looking hopeful.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16578231 |
Author: | paulzolo [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:51 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Give the Queen a new yacht? |
If the Royals want a new boat for jollies and tarting about the place on, then they can put their hands in their own [LIFTED] pockets and pay for it all themselves. ![]() |
Author: | HeatherKay [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:17 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Give the Queen a new yacht? |
It seems Downing Street has now squashed the idea. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16578231 It looks like Govey will have to wait a bit longer for his damehood. |
Author: | Spreadie [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:21 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jolly good.
Well said! |
Author: | rustybucket [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:40 pm ] |
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£60m? That's a lot of fake outrage for less than a pound each. |
Author: | jonlumb [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:46 pm ] | |||||||||
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I wasn't aware from any of the articles that the royals actually wanted a new yacht; it just seemed to be Gove acting like a gimp. |
Author: | bobbdobbs [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:55 pm ] | |||||||||
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You do realise they (the royals) were not asking for a yacht. Your reply does suggest that they have. Though Im also of the opinion that if they did want a royal yacht they can get one built themselves, out of their own money. |
Author: | paulzolo [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:31 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I am well aware of this. They seem to be doing well without a boat. If they needed one, they would have asked for one by now. |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:37 pm ] | |||||||||
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An opinion on the radio discussion I heard this morning was that Gove is rather unlikely to have just come off with his own bat. It's not really the place of the Education secretary to get involved in. But Gove is known to be very sympathetic to the Royal family. There was some kerfuffle not so long ago about some members of the royal household - particularly Prince Charles - having an awful lot of 'private briefings' which weren't being publicised at all. Some of the minutes of those briefings brought into some question who was briefing who. Given this and given the yacht would take several years to build and outfit, which probably means Charles would get much more use out of it than his mother would because as sprightly as she may be, Liz isn't going to be up to long foreign trips for much longer, well you follow the dots... Jon |
Author: | bobbdobbs [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:05 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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and you end up with a massive tinfoilhat. ![]() |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:10 pm ] | |||||||||
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A fair trade, sustainable, responsibly mined tinfoil hat which costs about four times as much as a normal supermarket brand tinfoil hat without in fact being any better ![]() |
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