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queen's birthday party at school

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prepschoolinsanity · 30/05/2016 13:47

my son's school is having a party for the queen's birthday. The children have to make bunting with a picture they have drawn themselves of something to do with the queen - a corgi say, or a crown.

I'm debating whether our picture should feature a flea or a hookworm...

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skinofthericepudding · 30/05/2016 19:50

For Seneca and KurriKurri

Flowers Flowers

KurriKurri · 30/05/2016 20:04

:)

Witchinghours · 30/05/2016 20:18

63 years of public service; still carrying out 340 public engagements a year at 90.

Whether you agree with the monarchy or not, the Queen's hardly a parasite.

SpringSpringSpring · 30/05/2016 21:59

Depends if you value those activities I suppose. I have nothing against her as a person but the institution she represents is totally parasitical and no amount of allowing the plebs to catch a glimpse of her matching coat and hat changes that.

cupidsgame · 30/05/2016 22:05

More like 63 years of scrounging. Her "public service" duties are hardly taxing. We give her millions, she has to do something in return. The whole lot of them are parasites. She even applied for a heating grant from a fund set up for hard up pensioners. The government had to remind her it was meant for pensioners struggling to pay their winter fuel bills.

Witchinghours · 30/05/2016 23:15

YOU don't pay for the monarchy.

George III surrendered the Crown Estates (hereditary lands belonging to the monarch) to Parliament in return for the monarch's expenses being paid under the Civil List. The money paid out under the Civil List is less than the revenue generated by the Crown Estates.

As for her duties being taxing, don't most people retire by 65? How many other 90 year olds hold down a full time job?

I couldn't deal with all the briefings, travel, weekly meetings with PM, meetings with heads of state, repetitive events, constant criticism... and I'm in my 30s.

Egosumquisum · 30/05/2016 23:19

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purplebud · 30/05/2016 23:31

Most schools will have had a Queen's party or similar this past week. I'm not all that comfortable with it, just as saying the Lord's Prayer in assembly makes me feel restless. It's all rather too antiquated and unquestioning.

ExitPursuedByBear · 30/05/2016 23:32

Norman land grab. Grin

How far back do we need to dig?

Egosumquisum · 30/05/2016 23:36

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DumbDailyMail · 30/05/2016 23:54

If you go further back in time I doubt the 'inherited' lands owned by the monarchy weren't exactly democratically divvied up in the first place.

Just because the monarchy has exsisted for a long time it doesn't make it right. Times change.

cupidsgame · 30/05/2016 23:55

witchinghours we do pay for the monarchy.The money from the crown estates (which weren't gotten legally) would revert back to us if there was no monarchy. Apart from that the monarchy cost us far far more than they'd have us believe.......I don't know any 90 year olds who hold down a full time job, they're usually too worn out after a lifetimes toil. If what she did was in any way hard I'm sure she'd have stepped down.The queen has never worked in her life. She has an army of servants doing practically everything for her, plus her own private physician tending to every need. She's never had to worry about money, like most women of her generation had to. She might be strong and robust for a 90 year old, buts that's only because of her massively privileged lifestyle. She couldn't hold a candle to most women of her age and have been able to do what they had to.

cupidsgame · 30/05/2016 23:57

I also refute what the queen does as a job

DumbDailyMail · 30/05/2016 23:59

Lol at my very late cross post. Grin. The point I was trying to make was much better made by Egosumquisum and other.

MrHannahSnell · 31/05/2016 00:05

Whatever.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 31/05/2016 00:29

I'll let the DC do the party stuff. And we'll discuss it with the oldest. Youngest won't give a hoot about the ethics as long as he's having fun.
My lefty, republican, atheist views will leech into their souls no matter what. Mind you, several of their teachers and possibly the head are of a sound mind too which may explain the lack of frenzy Grin

Brexit · 31/05/2016 07:05

William was French wasn't he?

I rest my case on Brexit.

RhiWrites · 31/05/2016 08:22

"If what she did was in any way hard I'm sure she'd have stepped down.The queen has never worked in her life. "

That's not correct. The Queen comes from an earlier time and was brought up to believe in public service. That's how she sees her role. She has scaled back her appearances because of her age.

I'm not a royalist and would happily see the UK as a republic but there's more to the royal family than a caricature of greedy aristos.

Think of them as old style uber patriots. That's why so many of them serve in the armed forces. It's not my thing but it is how they were taught to view their duty towards the nation.

Jenijena · 31/05/2016 08:26

DS -3- was sad that the queen didn't come to the birthday party his nursery held for her. I'm a republican and also wouldn't be able to resist something slightly subversive

Julia2016 · 31/05/2016 09:11

I think little girls in particular love the idea of queens and princesses from their fairy tale books and tv shows. I fully intend telling dd it's a load of codswallop! 😊

Fairuza · 31/05/2016 10:11

'Public service' is being a nurse on £22k working in an overstretched A&E department.

It isn't turning up to open a leisure centre, making polite noises at some officials and then being chauffeured back to one of your palaces.

mrgrouper · 31/05/2016 10:16

I have strong republican views and was disappointed that my son's school were also having a Queen's birthday party event. All kids had to be sent in wearing red, white and blue. I was tempted to buy a t shirt of eBay that said republican on it, however it would have singled my son out and at the age of 4 he is too young to form his own opinion on this. He was just happy to go in wearing a red and blue Spiderman t shirt.