To be annoyed about the Jubilee

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I know I’m being miserable but I’m bloody pissed off about the sodding Jubilee! I went to sainsburys this morning, paid £1.68 a litre for petrol and then popped in to be confronted by bottles of champagne! The last thing I feel like doing is celebrating! I spent all morning cancelling non-essential DDs as things are really tight with the rise in energy prices and the increased NI contribution.
funny how this ‘magic money tree’ can be harvested to pay for this event when people are genuinely struggling and are told to ‘get a better paid job’! I have a bloody well paid job, thankyou, but am still feeling the pinch. I know people are going to say that the economy will benefit - but how? If people spend more then inflation will rise and the BOE will put up the mortgage rates! I despair!

9p a litre cheaper than where I am if it's petrol and 19p a litre cheaper if it's diesel

Hebephilia, in the company of an actual convicted paedophile who abused 12 year olds. Literally the scum of the earth, not forgetting the arms dealers.

His Royal Hebephile, look, it even fits the acronym.

He shags around and lives the high life on State time and money. Any funds PA gets come from his mother, who tells the government what percentage she wants from the Crown Estates and they give it to her so she can pay off his debts etc.

Out of her enormous family, he was the best she could find to pay public tribute to the dearly beloved.

No "embellishment" needed. She couldn't even be bothered pretending to care.

Any funds PA gets come from his mother, who tells the government what percentage she wants from the Crown Estates and they give it to her so she can pay off his debts etc

Do you have any evidence of this or is it more fantasy?

Yes, the evidence is in the 25,000 links below and on -25,000 identical-- other threads.

But you won't read them, so why ask? (please don't answer that).

Calm down and have a cucumber sandwich instead.

PA works for me on the acronym front too, although less elegant than HRH.

Those links show details of funding for the monarchy, of which I’m well aware. I’m asking for evidence that the alleged £12 million paid as compensation to Virginia Roberts Giuffre came from the public purse. Got that evidence?

You weren't asking me that question, I said nothing about VG in the post you quoted. I said any funds he gets. He sponges off his mother and always has done and that's a fact.

Other posters have linked to the 12m compensation thing, I'm not going to re-link just so you can ignore it again.

I'm not going to re-link just so you can ignore it again

Good.

I'm shocked at how easily people are being manipulated into doffing their caps to the 1% types that are screwing us all over by hoarding wealth and resources they inherited from their ancestors that screwed over our ancestors.

So...I guess it's safe to say I'm a republican!

That’s better. Well done.

100% same!! Why are we celebrating a family that doesn't do anything for us, they sit comfortably in their palaces and many many homes while we struggle to put food on our tables and fuel in our cars! I won't spoil anybody's fun but you won't find me out celebrating an out of date tradition that doesn't hold it's value in modern day (I will be at work earning my pittance to live off!)

Where do you live that you only paid 1.68 for petrol?! @thegreenlight

You’re not being unreasonable. I won’t celebrate a monarch who are still benefiting from colonialism and slavery, support their paedophile son, while the rest of us struggle.

Please stop calling that vile, disgusting sexual assailant a paedophile. It’s trivialising paedophilia.

I find it somewhat amusing when people say the Queen paid off VG out of her own money, not public funds. Now where do you think she got the money in the first place? It certainly wasn't from working down the mines.

It's not trivialising paedophilia; it's an accurate characterisation of how PA is widely regarded. And why it matters that his mother paid off his victim and gagged her with the settlement. Stop looking for escape routes. Both son and mother are contemptible.

Yes it's a bullshit argument CurlyCew. Clutching at straws.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's any transparency with the Queen's accounts, so we don't have a frigging clue which one of the many piles of money she has access to she's dipping into.

It's not trivialising paedophilia; it's an accurate characterisation of how PA is widely regarded

That’s as may be. It’s not an accurate definition of the crime he’s accused of. The offence was sexual assault of a trafficked woman. She was over the age of consent. I know facts are unfashionable these days but I happen to think they matter. And it’s trivialising an absolutely abhorrent crime.

Imagine spending two whole days defending a man who fucked a trafficked person. The mind boggles.

Imagine spending two whole days defending a man who fucked a trafficked person.

oh it's a LOT longer than that

j712adrian · 30/05/2022 13:50
Jubilee? Bag o'shite.

The chance of me arriving on Saturday morning without having signed up to an obscure Euro-Communist Party is nil.

hahaha! I’ll be joining you!

Where’s the defence? Did you read what I called him?

The reading comprehension of some of the posters on this thread is "interesting". No-one is defending Prince Andrew's behaviour as far as I can see.

The almost identical posting styles of others on the thread is equally interesting.