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...

Didn't Harry complain about some details in Lownie's book?

So an average solicitor and your average jury in the UK then.

I love this. I also have a friend who is very pro monarchy and won't read anything to the contrary but has also never and flatly refuses to watch The Crown on Netflix. She wasn't very impressed with me of an evening when she asked me what I thought of the job the new king was doing and I told her I thought he was a dickhead.

I wonder if this is the first time (over whole Epstein affair, not just today) that he's been told 'no'?

Good, just a shame that it is related to misconduct in public office and not the sexual abuse of young trafficked women.

Also while you are at it, Police officers, why not ask him about the murder of Alisa Dmitrieva, the young woman who's body was found on the Sandringham estate in 2012.

Chucklehead was also a very close friend of paedophile bishop Peter Ball, who eventually ended up in prison.

Friendship with Prince Charles made paedophile bishop Peter Ball 'impregnable'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/friendship-with-prince-charles-made-paedophile-bishop-peter-ball-impregnable

Oh and PS the Lownie book is brilliant. In hindsight it's like reading the Bible.

I heard he thought the female police officer was a birthday strippergram.

Meanwhile Boris Johnson, Paula Vennels and other criminals who need locking up hope that we forget about them.

They are scum
you can see it how the government come down so hard on people claiming UC
but the royal family are the biggest scammers there are

And actually Re Charlie.......He gave him £1.5million of the £12 million payout to Virginia.
He tried to bury this. Wasn't so keen for "the law to take its course then" was he.

I really hope the royals are finished now.

Surely that’s just the tip of the iceberg? It’s inevitable I would imagine that other stuff is likely to come out

Wonder if he’s had his mugshot done.

Would have been fun. “We are just going to be taking your photograph Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how that’s done.”

Unfortunately I suspect he's safely ensconced in the chief constable's office with a scotch.

Yes, it's taken far too long to actually start asking the hard questions.

My personal opinion is that he's guilty as sin, as are an awful lot of his associates. We have to be realistic though - a conviction for a sex offence is, at this stage, extremely unlikely.

Sweaty Nonce has been above the law for years. He should’ve been investigated for alleged sexual misconduct years ago and he still hasn’t been investigated for that.
Royal family are cynically scrambling to distance themselves from him after years of turning a blind eye to what must’ve been plain for them to see. They all need holding to account - Royals, police protection, staff…. he has been thrown under a bus to save the rest of them.
it is not justice until they get rid of the corrupt lot of them.

It’s awful. I worry about the whole thing that money buys you happiness. It clearly doesn’t.

Agree!

I’m delighted Andrew has been arrested but the RF cost far less than 1% of the benefits bill, plus they produce revenue. They’re incomparable situations and one doesn’t negate the other.

I think it has taken a while for them to catch up to the idea that any of his behaviour was wrong.

Mountbatten was their great advisor and there are still unresolved allegations against him.

Louis on the money as usual

This X 1000

I keep tossing this around too!

They always seem to get them on the money - Al Capone is the example always used.

They can find the chain - get the documentary evidence.

With rape and abuse they are always able to muddy the water. That is not uncommon either - the tobacco companies muddied the science on caner links for decades and the climate crisis deniers also muddy the waters.

At this point, I will take a win. As long as the men start to pay in some way for something, I will take it.

And it needs to be more than losing a job.

Mandy should be really scared now.

Will Keir survive?

Because of lack of transparency about their finances there is no way to do a cost/beneift analysis.

They have only recently started paying income tax and the The Duchy of Cornwall for instance does not have to pay corporation tax.

The French tourist trade doesn't seem to do too badly.

There are 7m people on benefits compared to 8 Royals. We pay £135m to 8 people, two of whom are double billionnaires.