I'm intrigued, your profile picture is of a character who is of the ruling class..... no ifs no buts, a true civil servant of the Oxbridge brigade..... bit confused are you?!

The only possible way GSTQ could be any worse is if Jonathan Davies sang it in his awful nasal whine.

Thats great, really.
How many years has it been or will it be, before he actually attends a game or, presents the Challenge Cup or SL Trophy ?

How long has he been patron of the RFL? Less than 11 months. The SL trophy is presented by the sponsor and this years challenge cup took place a couple of days before the 20 year anniversary of Princess Diana's death so I'm pretty certain he had other stuff scheduled around that time.

This always makes me smile....
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I’m not sure that either attending oxford or working in the civil service have any relevance to a commitment to republicanism. Self-esteem, on the other hand, is very relevant!

Don’t particularly care for the republican/monarchy debate (it’s not broken), but if North Korea had our national anthem we’d be taking the out of them.

God save our gracious leader, long live our noble leader, god save our leader

What’s that got to do with the country?

I'd never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely spot on.

So, the question now is how do we get it changed?

Land of Hope & Glory

I'm not sure about that. Any other family would be labelled as completely dysfunctional.

The Queen pays 20% on her personal income, voluntarily, after years of paying no tax what so ever. Her legitimacy as a monarch is only down to the arcane rules by which we live. There is no reason what so ever that the people of this country should not be given the choice, by referendum, to keep the monarchy or not, just as there is no reason for the government not to rewrite the statute book to make the personal income, of the monarch, or any benefit in kind, taxable. In this day and age we need to slim down the cost of monarchy and to stop pretending that they are the chosen ones of God. At the very least we need to hold our ruling class to account for what we provide for them.