Best name suggestion I've seen for the newborn drain on the taxpayer...

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I popped into a pub this afternoon for a wee and a pint and they had a Royal Baby Name sweepstake board behind the bar.

Someone had suggested 'Dodi.'

Would he like to be head of state?theres an ambitious child,good job there!My friends son wants to be a power ranger,bless.

One more little share, some interested posters might not have already seen me share it elsewhere... :)

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Alis-bad taste because being royal had been compared to being disabled and having cancer?

Ok.

how mean

whats he done to you? sheesh

#BornEqual

Precisely. So if you would not walk up to a random new mother in the street and make derogatory remarks about her newborn baby being a burden on the state, then don't do it to the new royal baby.

Ok, I promise I wont walk up to the RMB on the street and call him a burden.

Saucyjack,this will turn into a debate about the royal family.Thats what this is for.goes around and around lol

See,straight away.

Awwww he is just a bubbah. :(

I've quaite enjoyed there being some relatively happy (if a tad gushing) news content over the last few days.

Thing is, William and Harry were born into what they were born into. Not their fault. They seem relatively normal and seem to be striving to be decent young men. Bit harsh to call a baby such names. The grandparents/great grandparents, maybe. But Wills works doesn't he? The inverse snobbery on MN astonishes me sometimes.

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Bad taste from start to finish, all comparisons included.

Because we're talking about a baby.

I bet this child could at least train to be a vet or whatever, maybe wouldn't get too far with protection officers pushing between him, the rubber glove and the cow's bum but actually go

Lol, indeed. I think it's really bloody seriously important to raise issues on societal inequality with a view to change. Humour can be used. Things can and NEED to be said. Some of them can be more difficult or challenging than others, but, yes, lol. It's all a bit too heavy isn't it? Inequality- who cares?! Let's have some cake!

Oops - going for a profession would go down really will with the public and great PR for the new modern monarchy.

Never claimed benefits, OP? Tax credits? JSA? Housing benefit? Income support?

Why is the new prince, whose father works & pays taxes, more of a drain on society than someone who claims any of the above benefits? (Disclaimer - I don't think claiming these makes someone a drain on society either.)

Yeah cakes solved bigger things than this is our house...and tea.

Poor little baby - 2 days old and despised and reviled already

Good lord, some people really seek out offence don't they?

Where has the baby been despised and reviled on this thread?

"This will turn into a debate about the royal family"

Sorry, I twisted "Precisely. So if you would not walk up to a random new mother in the street and make derogatory remarks about her newborn baby being a burden on the state, then don't do it to the new royal baby." And I made it about the royal family?

It is a bit heavy though,gone from a off comment about names and somehow to class inequality.

Anyway, being rude about a newborn may not be the kindest act in the work but to compared this being applied to a child being born into massive privilege to sneering at those who really are the most vulnerable in society is just ridiculous.

It was heading there imo,but if it wasnt i take that back regatding your good self,wasnt trying to madden you.But it will...

I would fucking SOB if I read such a mean thing about my baby, two days post-partum.

I am NOT suggesting that the Duchess reads MN before anyone says I was...

Op Yabu. PARP at the lot of you inverted snobs tbh. A baby 2 days old and how much poison and envy? Fgs.

Preserving the monarchy arguments always seem to end up in a "better to have an unelected head of state" position (though that would appear to be the very antithesis of democracy) but I don't see why if that is so important it has to be this child. Couldn't we just select a baby at random, have a big HoS prize draw? Bingo, no elected HoS and democratisation of privilege, job done.

None of the royal family have to do this, they're hardly going to get thrown into exile if they abducate (though it's almost guaranteed they'd move to the States and start a production company).