Prince (not) Andrew arrested.

[Happyjoe]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t

Nice to see nobody is above the law, what an embarrassment!

And what a b'day surprise that must've been for him...

Oh god, here we go.
Ducking Full.

Not a 'daysgo' by without you going on about immigrants and Labour eh?

I don’t mind the Royals, they are my favourite soap opera.
Mandelson will be next if there is any justice.

I can't say how much this news brightened my day. It's given me great pleasure to think of that awful man sitting alone in a cell on his birthday 🎉😆

@PeachOctopus if there is any justice there will be a hell of a lot more people. All the talk about Andrew and Mandelson is helping other people hide behind all the publicity about them

Bet he’ll be home by tonight!

Was she on her way to the chip shop with Elvis? :-)

don’t mind the Royals, they are my favourite soap opera.

I think a lot see them like this hence why the infighting and drama gets more comments & interest vs the actual charitable work they do.

But I don’t get it when we have so many things to stream! Having said that I’ve never liked soaps

Apparently princess anne is visiting a prison today 😂😂😂

But this morning I'm 90% she was in front of me in Greggs on services M4, she bought the bacon bap meal deal and a cup of tea (she actually asked for a pot of tea but they do not offer this)

It can’t be her if she paid!

Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion; this feels similar.

The crimes AMW has been arrested for are easy to prove (relatively speaking). They’re a matter of facts, dates, emails, paperwork etc. And they give the police a way into pulling his life apart in enough depth that they could find evidence for any illegal sex stuff. You arrest on the easy charges first, to put you in a position to move onto other potential charges.

This is clearly Epstein related though; the files did say he shared info he shouldn’t have.

You could easily imagine a good lawyer getting him off sex charges by presenting him as an arrogant albeit unsavoury moron who genuinely believed every young woman wanted him because he was a prince, and that these very very clever bad men made up stories about him to set him up as a patsy/smokescreen/fall guy in case of need.

I should say that I don’t believe that, or only partially, but it’s a POV I’ve heard a few times.

Did she have Shergar tied up in the car park?

Let's hope ignorance is not a defence in this instance, esp as it seemed to happen more than once..

Imagine his pompous outrage! Now for Peter Mandleson. Apparently it's very hard to prove the offence of Misconduct in Public Office though.

I hope all these new Andrew threads are moved to the RF then I can avoid them....too much already!!

I'm trying not to let it because she reigned for 70 plus years and to be honest, although of course I don't know for sure, I always felt she was a really lovely lady who felt a lot of pain and shame and did her best.

But what we are left with now is just a joke. She'd be horrified.

Some of the comments are amusing though. And don't worry, be tomorrows fish and chip paper soon.

Plus, its rare that I've seen a thread where pretty much everyone agrees that this is a good thing or amusing!

He has used his privilege to do dreadful things and it’s good he is brought to justice. He must be suffering terribly as his past comes back to bite him.

I actually saw some poor bastard who was the dead spit of Andrew in my local park during a different flurry of Andrew scandals.

The poor bloke looked ground down by life.

(My dad is the dead spit of a former Archbishop of Canterbury and I recognised the look of weary resignation when I did a double take)

I'll be shocked if this goes much further. Call me cynical but I think this is just for appearances , that it's being made to look like something is being done. I think any concrete evidence will either be long gone and or would have been covered up. I definitely think he's guilty but I doubt he'll end up in court.

The thing about all the scandals is that they are so inextricably linked to Andrew being Royal.

English *

Scarily I tend to agree. I do not like, or trust, or in fact have any time whatsoever for Charles. I think he's shady, out of touch, nasty, and all about himself. Therefore, although I can't swear to it, I believe he has made sure the spotlight is shone on Andrew to make himself look good and be more popular, because he knows he isn't a popular king. Not saying Andrew isn't guilty, he is, but there is more to this than JUST Andrew being guilty.

Agree. Sadly 😔

She raised them all. It’s not just Andrew. The King was buddies with Jimmy Saville and they all loved Lord Mountbatten.
They are a dysfunctional family who live off benefits.