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

[SolidGoldBrass]

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.'

The thing is that this privileged prince will never need our money. His family is rich enough anyway (they don't qualify for many benefits, as their income is just a bit too high, although they will not reveal the exact figures, which we mere mortals couldn't do in relation to benefits, tax etc.) keeps on taking and expects to be bowed to and loved on top of that. So, completely different situation, really.

Doesn't matter that he will never need our money. He is just a baby. No need to be so foul about him. :(

You might be the richest person in the world but might also be the kindest/most philanthropic. You could be extremely poor but be a massive cunt. You can never help what you are born into, you can only help being the person you become as an adult and that is what we should judge on, with any person, surely?

I think that being so poisonous about ANY baby makes you a bit of a wanker, to be perfectly fucking honest.

Being called an inverted snob is pretty tame compared to some of the things posters who are not fawning all over the royals have been called today.

Terrorists anyone?

Go on fill your self righteous boots.

I like that they've named him after the pink hippo in Rainbow. That show was fucking massive in my childhood.

In other news:-

MAGIC ROYAL BABY CURES CANCER is probably a Daily Heil front page of the future.

You're right Marms, I'm poor and I'm the most atrocious cunt ever. :o

Yeah, that's me. A shameless baby insulter. Not.

Well, I'm not fawning. I'm just looking at it as a human being with a bit of compassion for other human beings and I don't think that being vile about a newborn is a nice thing to be doing.

But, you know, it's fair game because the baby who didn't even ask to get born got born into money.

You can't judge a baby. He might grow up and find the cure for cancer. He might grow up and fire darts at the proles outside Buckingham Palace for sport. Point is, we don't know. He's just a baby.

I will be the judge of Most Atrocious Cunt Ever, thanks Teakozy. :)

Too many arrogant Billy Bragg wannabes on this thread and on MN in general to be frank. What happened to judging on personal merit and not on income/background?

In 5 weeks the news will be "Royal Magic Baby Smiles! - Sunny weather forecast for the next 2 weeks, as all clouds disappear"

Hardly a drain on the tax payer judging by the amount of well wishers at Buckingham palace & St Mary's on Monday & Tuesday!! Lots from overseas too!!!

Bah humbug op

Out of interest, how old does the baby have to be before we can discuss him, or rather what he symbolises and means to our society? 18 years? Shall we put the revolution on hold?

Then blame the sycophantic press for their coverage, ToysRLuv. It IS vom-inducing. But again, something the family have no control over.

When he has become an adult, ToysRLuv.

Honestly, can you explain to me why this is OK? This level of horrible about a baby? Any baby? We are quick enough on MN to shout down people who are vile about families on benefits, and rightly so. Why does wealth make it OK to slag a baby off? A BABY.

I can't wait 18 Years. We need a revolution fairly soon.

I'm getting on a bit tbh.

I'd rather overthrow the ConDems than bother with the monarchy, if I'm being honest.

You can overthrow the ConDems.

Or at least try.

You may not be aware of this, but the total net profits from the Crown Estates goes straight to the treasury. The contribution for 2012/13 was £290 million pounds. that is in one year. Combine that with the revenue they bring in through tourism and the like, I hardly a drain!

I nearly had a one woman revolution when they took Emmerdale off to show a fucking hospital door.

I know. I'm just saying, they are the fuckers I'd concentrate my energies on. Not Queenie and her Corgis. The monarchy are pretty much ceremonial IIRC? It's not like the French overthrowing Marie Antoinette and Louis XV is it? They don't really rule us. Not really. That's all done by gammonface and his chums. They are the ones we need rid of. Sooner the better.

agree with marmalade, not judging on background etc. flies out the window for the billy bragg wannabes when it comes to a royal.

why don't we have a prize draw to randomly select a baby to be royal? Newsflash, that's what a royal baby IS! once upon a time they were randomers, and when they reproduce they produce another randomly selected bunch of genes. I don't see how running a prize draw would introduce anymore randomness?

I'm a little confused by the "judging on personal merit not income/background" comment up thread - am I mistaken about how this little boy ended up in the 'future king' role, was it something he did it merit it?