Harry suing the home office

[TooEarlyForMe]

Does he realise where the money they would have to pay him if he was successful in suing, would come from?

The British public

Thanks Harry.

Hear! Hear @theemperorhasnoclothes

I mean I have no doubt he'll fail. I doubt a court will find that Harry, with no experience, has a better ability to assess security risk than the actual security services. But it will cost public money to fight the case. Money that could have been spent elsewhere. Maybe helping refugees fleeing from much greater risks that Harry's.

Just don't visit the UK, Harry, if you're that worried. That'll save even more public money. It'd be the right thing to do.

To use that pitiful reasoning, we should strip the funding from the Queen and all the royal family to fund trafficking and refugees.

I think Harry is hugely classist and he's not interested in the 'little people'.

He's willing to try and sue for taxpayers money from a country where normal people are suffering just so he can live a jet set lifestyle.

I mean, he comes from the same family as Prince Andrew so I don't know why I'm surprised, perhaps I slightly bought the lies about him caring about 'charity'. Well this action makes it pretty clear that he really doesn't care about the suffering of many parts of society in the UK. Real, hard, suffering (not the inability to visit one of many foreign holiday destinations).

Thé most recent YouGov survey showed

• Positive opinion of Prince Harry has seen a decrease of 9pts, from 43% in April to 34% now. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has also seen a further decline in her public rating, with positive opinion falling from 31% in March, to 29% in April and to 26% now. Prince Harry will make himself even more unpopular if he pursues this action against the Home Office

@Migrainesbythedozen

To use that pitiful reasoning, we should strip the funding from the Queen and all the royal family to fund trafficking and refugees.

I would be totally in favour of that.

But the rest of the Monarchy are not deliberately suing the Home Office for extra cash beyond what they've already been given just so they can go on holiday. I'll give them that.

Prince Harry will make himself even more unpopular if he pursues this action against the Home Office

I don’t suppose he gives a stuff about his popularity here as long as he gets his own way.

@theemperorhasnoclothes

I mean I have no doubt he'll fail. I doubt a court will find that Harry, with no experience, has a better ability to assess security risk than the actual security services. But it will cost public money to fight the case. Money that could have been spent elsewhere. Maybe helping refugees fleeing from much greater risks that Harry's.

Just don't visit the UK, Harry, if you're that worried. That'll save even more public money. It'd be the right thing to do.

Give it a rest love, costs follow the cause. If he loses he picks up the government's lawyers' bill.

The Queen, Charles, Anne, Edward, etc are also all classist and don't care about the little people either, they'd rather take money from the public who are suffering instead of getting independent jobs and living on their own.

@theemperorhasnoclothes He isn't suing for extra cash. He's suing for the right to spend his own cash.

@theemperorhasnoclothes

It's misogynistic to sue the Home Office for money that could be spent trying to stop human trafficking (the majority of trafficked individuals are female).

I'm fully in favour of abolishing the Monarchy. I really think it makes sense.

If Harry loses and picks up the government's lawyers bills will he pay for all the policing costs that will have been required so he could generate publicity for himself in court?

I actually agree... It is akin to slavery / child abuse. If anyone else here described detailed plans for their child's adult life MN would be up in arms. Why is George any different?

I agree with Harry - he didn't ask to be high profile and a lifelong target.

Actually, I think I've hit the nail on the head there - it's MOSTLY about generating publicity for himself and keeping himself in the headlines. At the UK taxpayers expense.

Pathetic.

But Harry could quite easily fade into obscurity now if he wanted to but instead he does headline grabbing stuff like this which in itself no doubt increases his risk.

Now why on earth would he do that if his fears were genuine? The easiest thing would just be not to visit the UK.

@theemperorhasnoclothes

Actually, I think I've hit the nail on the head there - it's MOSTLY about generating publicity for himself and keeping himself in the headlines. At the UK taxpayers expense.

Pathetic.

It does indeed seem more and more like a blow to the head has been involved

Argh the reply button doesn't work. I agree with TheHoptomist re George being born into modern slavery.

he didn't ask to be high profile and a lifelong target

He wouldn’t be if he’d just shut the fuck up. A man who’d actually been the King managed to live a life of relative privacy for 35 years without kicking up a stink about his security.

Whether or not it's fair that Harry was born into a family that was high profile is one issue, although that argument definitely supports the abolition of the Monarchy to prevent more children being born into that situation.

But if it's true, it's not a good reason for suing the Home Office.

He can quite easily just avoid the UK if he thinks it's high risk, he lives in the US now. It would also be sensible to stop attracting attention to himself if he's really seeking lower risks.

@Blossomtoes

he didn't ask to be high profile and a lifelong target

He wouldn’t be if he’d just shut the fuck up. A man who’d actually been the King managed to live a life of relative privacy for 35 years without kicking up a stink about his security.

Yes, this.

The only one increasing Harry's security risk now is Harry himself.

Is there a thread on a 'we don't understand the RF; UK history or anything to do with the Royals but have a very vocal opinion on it' website sending posters here because the comments on this thread are hilariously ignorant about everything to do with the UK.

I can completely understand why posters who don't care about the UK and are quite happy to blame the UK for the work of Russian bots, want us to pay for two multi-millionaires' security for life.

The US has always equated wealth and celebrity with being 'better' and more 'worthy'. That doesn't fly in the UK. We're the country that invented the NHS. We'd rather try to give money from the public purse to those who are most in need not to people who are part of the fifth richest royal family in the world.

@Blossomtoes

he didn't ask to be high profile and a lifelong target

He wouldn’t be if he’d just shut the fuck up. A man who’d actually been the King managed to live a life of relative privacy for 35 years without kicking up a stink about his security.

He became a target the minute he married a WOC.

What about MPs? They play a very important role in our government. In fact, they are at the heart of our democracy and as a group much more important than the Royal Family.

Two have been killed in recent years. Many experience alarming threats. However unless they are independently wealthy they certainly can't afford security on an MPs salary. There would be a much better case to offer armed protection to MPs that wanted it than Prince Harry. I would rather see the money spent on that.