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.'

[LimitedEditionLady]

Its not the name,its the title of the thread.

[YellowJug]

You don't know what that child will do or what he will achieve. It's like saying a baby born on a council estate will amount to nothing, it's not fair to put that on him before he's even speaking!

And the Dodi joke is just vile. Really vile.

[IfNotNowThenWhen]

Jayden?

[LimitedEditionLady]

Im referring to the title of the thread as the other person was

[Wheresmycaffeinedrip]

Yes please re edit the title someone. Not funny or clever just spiteful.

[Fecklessdizzy]

My gang's money are on ...

Edward / Arthur ( DP )

Adolf / Grimbeard ( DS1 )

Rufus ( DS2 )

Tyson / Benedict / Voldemort ( me )

[LegoAcupuncture]

Bypassing the "joke" about his name, the title is awful. There is no need for it.

[SaucyJack]

I don't agree with the monarchy, nor it's funding either YoutheCat.

But still, no need to take it out on the baby. Just not cricket in my book.

[usualsuspect]

If this title gets edited I'm off.

[Wbdn28]

[Monty27]

Rufus?

[coralanne]

My initial comment was directed at the title of the thread.

It's a bit sad that a persons initial reaction to a cuddly newborn is that, but hey, let's forget about it and enjoy the warm and fuzzy feeling a newborn generates.

It's like Kate said, everyone who is a parent will know how they are feeling at the moment.

[cheerfulweather]

"It's like Kate said, everyone who is a parent will know how they are feeling at the moment."

I agree wholeheartedly with Kate's sentiment.

[HeySoulSister]

Doesn't William work? Earns a wage etc? Pays tax?

[Fecklessdizzy]

I don't know where Rufus came from either, Monty, I think there was a King Rufus in the lego knights you could get a few years ago and DS2 is an utter fiend for lego so maybe it sort of lodged in his subconcious somehow!

I rather like it ...

[cheerfulweather]

William Rufus (i.e. William the second)! Tsk.

[fruitpastille]

My four year old DDs suggestions:
Sunhat
Flag
Stinky bum bum
She found these hysterically funny as you can imagine!

[Fecklessdizzy]

Wasn't he terribly bad tempered and died in a suspicious hunting accident?

[cheerfulweather]

Yes.

[McNewPants2013]

An awful title.

[CointreauVersial]

Oh boooo, SGB.

[softlysoftly]

For starters the "newborn drain" will as Kate so far has earn this country far more than he costs. Just watched a review on the likely income/interest from home and abroad in all things royal Baby branded. It's billions.

Secondly William is in the forces, he works, yet unlike other serving men gets no respect for that?

I actually couldn't stand Diana and am not a massive royalist but truly hate the vitriol saved for them which is "ok" because they are privileged.

The only name suggested for the baby I find amusing is Tyler. Just so Katie Hopkins could have it shoved in her face.

[Fecklessdizzy]

OK, perhaps not Rufus, then. Pity though as the lego one was a good egg!

[SolidGoldBrass]

You can enjoy vicarious warm-fuzzy-newborn thrills every minute of every day. Babies are literally born every minute and hopefully most are born healthy to mothers who survive the birth, and are lovingly welcomed into the world. All that is very nice.

But in a climate of crippling 'austerity' and increasing cuts to public services added to some deeply unpleasant propaganda about poor people, it's a bit worrying that everyone's being told to rejoice about the birth of one particular baby who is supposedly more important than the rest but who the rest are going to be paying for, like it or not.

[Lorialet]

"I don't consider babies born to parents on benefits to be anything like as much of a drain on the taxpayer. They're statistically more likely than this one (who is, I'm sure, no more or less lovely than any newborn) to end up working for a living."

Where do you get that utter bullshit from? Prince William & Prince Harry both serve in the Armed Forces.