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.'

[PugStaffyCross]

James is a nice name for a future king. He looked a little sweety like all newborns.

[firesideskirt]

That's a really poor joke. Sorry you find it funny.

[SolidGoldBrass]

The Royal family don't 'earn the country far more than they cost', though. This is a myth. Heritage tourism generates some money, but you don't need live parasites to produce this revenue.

[MidniteScribbler]

Tasteless. Really tasteless.

[Monty27]

Aww I think Rufus is cute

Menzies? Oh no too Scottish in cases Scotland detatches...

I know! Just Prince! Prince Prince of Cambridge??? (Purple rain and all that is a royal colour). No?

[countingmyblessings]

Yes. The royal family are sort of on benefits. BUT 'baby Cambridge' is just that, an innocent baby. Get a grip fgs. Find something that deserves mocking. So distasteful

[Fecklessdizzy]

Dunno, both James' were a bit dodgy, don'tcha know ... One nearly got blown up and the other got booted out in favour of William of Orange.

I'm with the Tyler faction now, Tyler the First has a definite ring to it ...

[HeySoulSister]

So sgb what do you suggest? We send the baby back??

[BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability]

My fovourite name suggestion is kong.

[Fecklessdizzy]

Does anyone remember Class War? Are you riffing on their " Another fucking parasite " headline when William was born?

[MidniteScribbler]

BBC this morning said that the royal family were worth 50 billion pounds to British commerce and tourism. I'd say that's not a bad contribution.

[Primafacie]

DD(4) suggestions:
Shellen (apparently a boy's name), or
Fonk. I'm thinking they may want to go for the upper class spelling Phonque :o

[softlysoftly]

No SGB untrue there had been very specific affects of the "living heritage". 1 simple example is a small Scottish factory about to go belly up. Kate wore a scarf of theirs to the jubilee now they are prospering with orders from around the world an nd new job creations.

I might not buy into the hype around it but millions, billions, do and that effect would absolutely not be the same if our "heritage" were not too have a human news creating faces.

Will and Kate are a marketeers dream and nothing she does will be by accident. Each of these events brings money in, not something that would happen with static heritage.

[VixZenFenchell]

I have a very dear friend who serves in the forces. Are you suggesting that she and her children are also a drain on the taxpayer? Because I don't imagine William works in the RAF for nothing.

This child is far more likely to bring money into the UK than 3 generations of one family who haven't done a day's salaried work in their lives.

Note: am comparing this one child to one example. Unlike your sweeping generalisation that all royals are "living parasites". Which is a disgusting thing to call a day old baby and his proud parents.

[scottishmummy]

How obvious and woohoo trying to shock.bet you laughed drinking your free trade coffee

[Fecklessdizzy]

King Fonk.

Genius.

[softlysoftly]

To not too

Too tired for swype typing!

[HeySoulSister]

Trying to shock, yes, and failing

Op has made herself look stupid

[siiiiiiiiigh]

I saw this suggestion on twitter:

"call the baby, Morrissey. Just to really, really annoy Morrissey"

ha ha ha.

[SupermansBigRedPants]

That is just mean. I'd hate to think of my baby thought of like that by anyone whether I was anywhere from benefits to royal :(

now gets why MNers have shit lists

[countingmyblessings]

Why has this thread not been deleted?

[cheerfulweather]

I like that, Siiigh!

[IfNotNowThenWhen]

If they call him Mohammed I win a gazzillion pounds at William hill, and I will move in next door to the cambridges and start threads about how they let little Mohammed have fruit shoots and that.
(fingers crossed)