So am I mate. In fact I would gladly pay say an extra couple of p in the pound to help fund it if it was going to be managed better. The left wing don't have a monopoly of caring for our fellow man. Similarly focussing on the royal family won't cure the country's ills. Don't know the p&l is with them but they do bring in a lot of tourist pounds. I don't know about you but I wouldn't like to live in the goldfish bowl they do.

I am a republican, but the issue of the royal family is way down my list of priorities. I don't buy the tourist argument; sure a few yanks dream of meeting Liz in the Queen Vic but I do think most would come to Blighty with or without them. As you say, I wouldn't want their life. I would like to snot Prince Andrew though.

The Royal family are corrupt to the core. Princess Di was going to marry a Muslim. She was killed in a car crash in Paris after been chased by the " media"

Jill Dando about to expose paedophiles at the BBC , shot dead on her doorstep . An innocent man framed for her murder , her husband is the queens gynacologist and also delivered the royal babies .

Henri Paul was inebriated whilst driving the car at high speed that the [iQueen of Hearts[/i was travelling in.
Jill Dando didn't have a husband.

Tin foil hat time again I see.

Indeed.

It's an interesting phenomenon - didn't we used to have a mod on here who was into all that stuff?

Mugwump?

Either that or Flat Stanley is back.

Yes, and yes - the whole flat earth thing that ran for bloody ages!

Don't wake up Ferocious Aardvark for fecks sake.

I'm surprised we got through the moon landing anniversary week without a series of posts with links to crackpot YouTube videos demonstrating why the earth is flat, and being told to "wake up sheeple!"

Fortunately not many of the 20% of young AMericans who believe the landings were faked are on here; they are all on Total RL.