Posted on 08/30/2025 3:39:31 AM PDT by Salman
Queen Elizabeth II had opinions on all sorts of subjects; it was just that she chose not to share them. Or, more accurately, she did sometimes share them, but those who heard were usually too discreet to repeat them. As George Osborne says, “I was constantly astonished by how candid she was and that none of this ever came out. She’d be very forthright in telling you what she thought of individuals, including members of her own family, and what she thought about things going on in the country.”
Another politician tells how the Queen once mentioned over drinks that she was due to see Pakistan’s General Musharraf, who would later be found guilty of violating the country’s constitution and sentenced to death in absentia. “Isn’t he just a crook?” she said. “Isn’t he just completely corrupt?” The group she was talking to were lost for words at this, so one of them turned the conversation to horse racing and asked whether she watched the Channel 4 preview programme The Morning Line. She said,“I really like the Channel 4 coverage in the afternoon, and I always like to watch it when my horses are running, but The Morning Line? I can’t watch it. I can’t stand that man John McCririck.”
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Their duties as a monarch now are to look important and try not be embarrassing. Oh and waste money. Royalty are an expensive hobby England should ditch.
Beheaded!
Tourists are money.
A king can’t even do that anymore.
Tourists aren’t nearly as much money as the Royals cost. Especially when you reduce it down to tourists that give a crap about the Royals.
They throw that abject lie out periodically. Don’t believe it for a second. The thing they constantly ignore is how much it costs to maintain all those palaces that the royals “own”. And yachts and cars and funerals and weddings. The Royal Family costs hundreds of millions of Pounds on a cheap year. Then when there’s a coronation they’re willing to admit cost 90 million Pounds forget it.
And there is no soft power. And the Commonwealth is completely pointless. And costs money because the Royals do their periodic “royal tours” of the Commonwealth.
The Royal Family is hellishly expensive, and is nothing but burnt money.
At this rate, Prince William is likely going to be the last reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom.
I doubt that the Muslims in the country would want to keep the institution
In the United Kingdom, theoretically the Royal Family should be able to advocate for their country.
Just imagine if Queen Elizabeth was still alive and she wanted the politicians to close the borders? I think they'll listen to her and it would force the government to collapse.
Someone should tell that to Johnny Rotten.
In America ANYBODY can advocate for their country. And not cost the tax payers millions.
If Queen Elizabeth were alive today nothing would change. Mass immigration into the UK started while she WAS alive.
The Royals are useless. They’ll never go against the Government strongly because they know they’re on a teetering edge and the Republican movement is always growing and eventually the Government will get sick of their crap kick them out their palaces and tell them to get real jobs.
Yes. Because we're America. We have the Constitution and all that jazz.
The UK is not America.
If Queen Elizabeth were alive today nothing would change. Mass immigration into the UK started while she WAS alive.
You're 💯 correct. So Queen Elizabeth did a bad job. I like her personally. But her legacy is not going to be good.
The Royals are useless.
Right now? Yes. I cannot disagree with you on that.
It is probably the time to dismantle the Royal Family.
That said, the Royal Family served them well for centuries. It is a British institution. Obviously, that is no longer working.
YOu are right. BUt not at the cost of traditional Brit8ish street food. EVerything is now curried.
Fish and Chips, bridies.....
No it is not as you say. This has happened over the last decade due to illegal immigration.
If anything is changed it’s that Britain has moved away from bland food. Something we did too. Nothing to do with immigration. They’ve just realized curried is better. Because it is.
It’s hundreds of years past time to dismantle them. Once the rebellion succeeded enough to make them figure heads they shouldn’t have done that. It should have ended. The Royal Family has NEVER served, only been served. For far far too long.
The UK should split up into England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland.
And of course, no EU.
It wasn’t all bad. King George VI was viewed as a national symbol during WWII and obviously we know all about the British determination to fight the Nazis.
All royalty is always bad. The concept of royalty is bad. Figureheads should only be on polls. If King George was that awesome he could have been just as awesome as a citizen, maybe a parliamentarian. But no one is awesome as the viral recipient of power. The very concept is evil.
It's in our blood despite us disliking it.
I, and probably most of the people reading this descend from the Plantagenets.
I've found no evidence of a connection with the Tudors (yet).
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