to ask you what you think David Cameron means by "purring?"

[hugefatso]

I mean, it's not a very human noise.

Or does he just mean it metaphorically, like the Queen was very thankful and grateful for the news about the Scots?

[hugefatso]

Just realised this is already in feminism, but a slightly different question.

My curiosity is more just random and out of interest than political.

[Behoove]

He's a sexist arse and the Queen will wipe the floor with his bollocks next time they meet.

But in answer to your question, yes I'd agree she was probably making a pleased sound.

[SetPhasersTaeMalkie]

I did wonder. I hope she didn't actually purr.

Pathetic really.

[Flipflops7]

People are overthinking this (am half-watching the analysis on Sky). I think the Queen will be amused.

[wildfig]

It means that DC secretly thinks of himself as James Bond, saving the Union for Queen and Country, and the Queen as Honor Blackman or similar, making appreciative flirty noises down the phone at him.

Would love to be a fly on the wall at their next meeting. Although the temperature in the room will probably be glacial enough to kill any flies stone dead.

[SetPhasersTaeMalkie]

I thought you weren't supposed to repeat conversations with the monarch?

I'm not really up on royal protocol mind you.

[SetPhasersTaeMalkie]

Oh gag at her Maj and Dave flirting.

I won't sleep now.

[hugefatso]

wildfig hee her you're so right!

[FreudiansSlipper]

I doubt the Queen will be amused

I am though

Bang goes his knighthood

[Flingmoo]

I think it's a bit sexist sounding to me... implying she's like a cat O_o He wouldnt have used that phrase to refer to a man who sounds happy...

[KnackeredMuchly]

Link

m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29335028

[MrsTerryPratchett]

I'm not a Royalist and I'm pretty disgusted with him. He is talking out of school, sounds horribly sexist and fawning at the same time. Yuk

[LineRunner]

He's let the monarchy down, he's let the country down, and most of all he's let himself down. The shiney shiney knob.

[YonicScrewdriver]

[Chunkamatic]

I have it on good authority that she already detests him, so he won't have helped his cause with her at all.

What a nob.

[VeryStressedMum]

Chunkamatic who is the good authority??? How do you know that?????

[Greyhound]

I don't know, but he is creepy.

"Purring" has dodgy sexual connotations that irk me when applied to Her Maj.

He is smug.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Chunk are you Phillip? You can tell us

[abigamarone]

Purring, it's what my cat does when he lies on his back and I tickle his belly.
Lovely mental image I've got now...

[ShakesBootyFlabWobbles]

Did Queenie do her best Eartha Kitt impersonation?

And tonight Matthew, I'm going to be...

I hope it wasn't like George Galloway on CBB

[thecatfromjapan]

A sexist, fawning fool, with no sense of gravitas. Our leader - Fgs.
And, yes, a shiny, shiny knob.

(Thank you, Linerunner.)

How could he sound any less like an adult and a statesman? The ulcers shit was bad enough. But 'purring' ....

What a fool.

[WaywardOn3]

Well there are those people ego believe the royal family are all lizard people or some such nonsense, maybe he's one of them but believe she's part cat? :-/

[WaywardOn3]

*who not ego

[FindoGask]

I don't know, and I don't want to know. Horrible.