[MisterMuncher]

If you want to know how bad the discourse was consider this meme that was being shared.

Apparently she was responsible for the wars in Yugoslavia and the thousands of Icelandic fishermen who she ordered murdered.

And simultaneously, the fucking Times were reporting about double rainbows appearing above Windsor, and various clowns were talking about how their corgis were behaving differently. None of that was planted propaganda. It was real, organic, homegrown stupidity.


Call it a score draw.

[Rosvanian]

Just announced, Brenda's funeral cost the British taxpayer £160M. I advice anyone tempted to complain in public about this to refrain from doing so lest you're thrown in the slammer for half a day, no qurstions asked.

[Bones McCoy]

Just announced, Brenda's funeral cost the British taxpayer £160M. I advice anyone tempted to complain in public about this to refrain from doing so lest you're thrown in the slammer for half a day, no qurstions asked.

Makes Thatcher's seem a real bargain.
- With the added bonus of dead Thatcher.

[The Weeping Angel]

That's nothing Reagen's state funeral cost $400 million dollars.

[Yug]

Reagan's funeral didn't cost the British taxpayer a single penny.

[The Weeping Angel]

My point was when you compare and contrast with other state funerals, you'll find that others have costed more. Also let's break down the cost of the funeral department by department.

Department for Culture, Media & Sport - £57.42m
Department for Transport - £2.565m
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - £2.096m
Home Office - £73.68m
Ministry of Defence - £2.890m
Northern Ireland Office - £2.134m
Scottish Government - £18.756m
Welsh Government - £2.202m
Total - £161.743m

So what should those departments have spent their money on instead?

[Yug]

Are you really that stupid? Nobody is arguing that government Departments shouldn't spend money on the business of that Department. The argument is spending £260 million on a funeral and a coronation is £260 million wasted. And what foreign governments waste foreign taxpayers' money on is totally irrelevant.

Your arguments are getting more bizarre by the day.

[The Weeping Angel]

You do realise that the figures that I quoted are what each department spent on the funeral.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65636772

So what should those deparments have spent their money on instead?

My point about foreign governments spending money is this. If we were a Republic we'd still very likely spend public money on things like state funeral and other state occasions which other Republics do incidentally. Simply banging on about the cost of the Monarchy is on my view a weak arguement and reminds me of those who used to say let's spend all the money we give to the EU and spend it on whatever the person making that argument wanted it to be spent on instead.

[Snowdrop]

All the Brenda figures are for actual money spent, while Reagan's funeral costs include a national day of mourning which gave federal employees as well as the stock markets a day off.

[Youngian]

Reagan's funeral costs include a national day of mourning which gave federal employees as well as the stock markets a day off.

You can’t put a price on a knees up

[Watchman]

But amazingly, others can put a “value” on how much the RF brings in through tourism

[Bones McCoy]

But amazingly, others can put a “value” on how much the RF brings in through tourism

Always enumerated at the specifically royal "A lot".

[Crabcakes]

Reagan's funeral costs include a national day of mourning which gave federal employees as well as the stock markets a day off.

You can’t put a price on a knees up

Apparently you can, and it's $400 million

[Abernathy]

When Brenda was still alive, I seem to remember that there was much outrage and indignity abroad in the ranks of the gammon along the lines of “Camilla will NEVER be queen !”, “She’s NOT my queen !” etc, etc. I think Brenda even had to invent a special title for Camilla of “King’s Consort” or something just to keep the gammons happy.

Now she’s Queen Camilla,no bother, and all that outrage is forgotten.

A measure of how dim the monarchist/gammon tendency really is, I’d venture.

[The Weeping Angel]

I think it shows how people have just moved on from the whole Charles Diana saga.

[Oboogie]

When Brenda was still alive, I seem to remember that there was much outrage and indignity abroad in the ranks of the gammon along the lines of “Camilla will NEVER be queen !”, “She’s NOT my queen !” etc, etc. I think Brenda even had to invent a special title for Camilla of “King’s Consort” or something just to keep the gammons happy.

Now she’s Queen Camilla,no bother, and all that outrage is forgotten.

A measure of how dim the monarchist/gammon tendency really is, I’d venture.

This is it.
If you're a monarchist that means you accept Charles is the King and his wife is therefore the Queen and you have no say in the matter whatsoever because you're a fucking peasant.
And that's what you like.
Now, run along serf, don't you have some oxen to attend to?

[davidjay]

Sobering thought time - you'd have to be in your forties to remember Chas'n'Di being an item.

[Abernathy]

This is it.
If you're a monarchist that means you accept Charles is the King and his wife is therefore the Queen and you have no say in the matter whatsoever because you're a fucking peasant.
And that's what you like.
Now, run along serf, don't you have some oxen to attend to?

Indeed so. Wasn’t it Tony Benn who observed that the Duke & Duchess of Fuckpigg (or insert name of favoured aristo here) are only filthy rich titled landowners because some bloody ancestor of theirs grabbed (stole) it from someone else 450 years ago.

The so-called “divine right of Kings/Queens” - the ridiculous notion that someone is King or Queen because they’ve been personally appointed by God was also patently simply invented to deter anyone from questioning the right of a monarch to be such, and persists even until the present day, even though it is very obviously absurd bollocks.

So yer Queen Camilla, crowned thus on the same completely arbitrary basis, is the Queen without question, you idiotic, tabloid shite consuming fuckwits. If you don’t like it, stop calling yourselves monarchists.

[Abernathy]

Mind you, Prince Willie is going to end homelessness, and Camilla is going to stamp out domestic abuse - Brenda was never into that.

Who said they do nowt of any worth ?

[Youngian]

Camilla is going to stamp out domestic abuse

It’s what Diana would have wanted.

It’s it me or is William morphing into his ancestor Czar Nicholas II? Not a good omen.