God NO.. A Royal Wedding

[ToneMonkey]

Getting sick of it on the telly too as I really couldn't give a toss one way or another.

Wonder how long it'll take them to bump this one off  PDT_038

[mikeluke]

Echo Tonemonkey - could not care less either way - just stop hogging all the TV and newspaper coverage

[Roobubba]

I'd rather this banal story (I'm really a royalist at heart) than some other banal story about some Britain's Got X-factor cretin humping some girly-mouthed boy band gimp or other.

[nfe]

I don't agree with the monarchy at all - send them all the way of Charles I.....

Nor, in a Republic, do you need a monarchical 'head of state' with powers to replace our relatively republican monarch (i.e. she wields less power than a modern president, or the stadhouder of the old Dutch republic or the old Doge of Venice)- Indeed, in reality we have a presidential head of state - the Prime Minister.  A second English Republic could  be achieved with a written constitution and a constitutional court to keep elected politicians in order.

In many regards the Prime Minister does act in the fashion a president would, yes. This is far more of a concern to the UK than the monarchy ever will be, and is a monstrous abuse of our Parliamentary system that people should be striving to change.

You do require a head of state, there's no two ways about it, and they should wherever possible be apolitical, which is why a Prime Minister should not act as it, and why an elected President is almost without exception a bad thing. We are in desperate need of a return to true "first among equals" Prime Ministers and genuine cabinet rule.

I'll note again that I'm not pro-monarchy in any fashion, but I know of no demonstrably better system.

[Ian Price]

I'd rather this banal story (I'm really a royalist at heart) than some other banal story about some Britain's Got X-factor cretin humping some girly-mouthed boy band gimp or other.

+1 lots of times.

Guitars we don't agree on but we do on this.

[Plexi Ken]

OK, that's two nfe posts in-a-row I agree with... what's going on  :?   :lol:

[nfe]

I know I'm a pretty pig-headed overt leftist, but surely everything I say can't be so contentious as to cause this much surprise folks agree with me  :P

[AndyR]

:lol:

I even have to admit to agreeing with Roo in this one... it's just that I can usually avoid the x-factor/etc bullsh1t - there was an hour or so last night when I couldn't get away from Wills and wotsername... (actually it was Piers and a bunch of other low-lifes, not Wills and his babe)...

I suppose I could've switched the TV off and practiced some mean and manly pickin' on me tele... but sadly, the wife was actually interested in it. She did agree though that they'd better not go this bonkers for the entire length of the engagement...

[Johnny Mac]

Good luck to them. The country could do with something like this to give us a lift.

[38thBeatle]

I was in W H Smith today and they had a magazine on sale called "Will & Kate"- how sad is that?

[Stevepage]

^ There's a book too I think. How the hell do they write them so quick...


Couldn't care less about the whole thing, I probably won't even get the day off because in the real world you don't get a day off work just because some one you don't know that has a lot of money is getting married.

[AndyR]

I was in W H Smith today and they had a magazine on sale called "Will & Kate"- how sad is that?

It's only sad cos you've still got your "Charles and Diana" magazines in the attic and your subconscious is putting two and two together :lol:

^ There's a book too I think. How the hell do they write them so quick...


Couldn't care less about the whole thing, I probably won't even get the day off because in the real world you don't get a day off work just because some one you don't know that has a lot of money is getting married.

When I watched the tv on the night it was announced, it looked to me as if a lot of savvy media types already had their books written and deals signed...

On the day off front - it's a bank holiday. So, unless you work in a job where you regularly have to work bank holidays, you should be ok.

However, the appearance of this extra bank holiday is creating havoc at our place. A load of people are suddenly thinking "I can get 11 days off work for only 3 days of my annual leave...", so there's an unusual rush for booking annual leave for that week. Which means, since this joyous anouncement, those of us who were originally planning Easter off anyway might not be allowed to take the one or two weeks we were planning...

Thanks a f***ing bunch Will & Kate... or whatever w@nker decided to declare a bank holiday! :lol:

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I was also going to take advantage of the extra bank holiday.

until i realised we cant book annual leave for the next tax year until 1st of April.

And i doubt ill get a chance unless i get in super early.

As we're only allowed 5 people off per team of 60 which is annoying

[ToneMonkey]

I was also going to take advantage of the extra bank holiday.

until i realised we cant book annual leave for the next tax year until 1st of April.

And i doubt ill get a chance unless i get in super early.

As we're only allowed 5 people off per team of 60 which is annoying

Typcially, I'd already booked this date off work before they announced it  :roll:

[JJretroTONEGOD]

^ There's a book too I think. How the hell do they write them so quick...


Couldn't care less about the whole thing, I probably won't even get the day off because in the real world you don't get a day off work just because some one you don't know that has a lot of money is getting married.

the royal family is just another business