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Duke of York

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roundtoit · 02/03/2011 19:22

I think its time Andrew was told that to hang around with dodgy " friends " and have a massage off a 17 yr old girl is not on. What a waste of space this man is.

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MrsSnow · 02/03/2011 19:54

It seems to have to got 'buried' by stories relating to Libya.

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roundtoit · 02/03/2011 20:06

I think its just been buried full stop. Cannot have us plebs thinking badly of the Duke of Pork or leaving nasty comments online .

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sue52 · 03/03/2011 17:12

There has been reporting of his dodgy financial arrangements and shady friends for a few years. If he was not called The Duke of York he would surely have faced a public enquirey by now.

Chil1234 · 04/03/2011 05:56

As pointed out on last night's Question Time, the Duke was acting on behalf of our politicans as a trade envoy. Tony Blair's entire administration was suckered into the offensive idea that Gadaffi was a reformed character and that Libya was a great trade opportunity. Even leaning on the Scots to release the Lockerbie bomber in their greed for Libyan cash!! If we're going to point fingers and demand a public inquiry, it should be at the former cabinet.

meditrina · 06/03/2011 16:23

The story has surfaced in the Sunday papers link to round up. The angle they are running isn't Libya, it's his suitability for the role given his links with a US businessman convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. It's hard to tell if this really is poor judgement (when did the Prince know what?) or if it is a smear.

scaryteacher · 07/03/2011 09:27

It was the comment in the DT that had me rofl; a Tory politician said of the Duke, that there was no discernible mental activity!

freshmint · 07/03/2011 09:34

Come on the man has been socialising with a bloke who has just got out of prison on under-age sex offences. Not only socialising, asking him to give money to his ex-wife. Several other underage women associated with the pedophile were asked under oath if they had sex with prince andrew and they took the 5th amendment. They could have said "No!" but they didn't.

He is even sleazier than Fergie is. He has no integrity (remember this is the man who sold his house to a kazazhstani associate for £3m above the asking price - the buyer has never visited it and it still stands empty. Corrupt, much?) and very few brains. I don't want him representing the UK at anything - do you?

Eurgh.

meditrina · 07/03/2011 09:37

Apparently he was appointed to the role in 2001. Presumably there are years of evidence about his performance in that role?

freshmint · 07/03/2011 09:38

Well meditrina they have added up how much he has cost in expenses since then - £4m on flights and hotels alone (NOT including security)

waste of space

meditrina · 07/03/2011 09:50

Cost is easy to add up - value less so. The Govt wouldn't have paid if someone hadn't thought him worth it, would they? They've ten years of evidence to look at.

freshmint · 07/03/2011 10:35

ooooh meditrina you are naive

they paid because nobody wanted to tell the queen that her son is a rapacious, thick waste of space

if he wasn't doing this what would he be doing? it would be very apparent that he was pointless. as is Edward.

and the queen is a nice old bean

JBellingham · 07/03/2011 11:27

Another in-bred free loader from an immigrant family, living on state benefits and the charity of others in social housing.

Time descendants of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family were means tested comrades!

ulyanka · 07/03/2011 11:33

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meditrina · 07/03/2011 11:36

Freshmint: I'm now imagining a scene in 2001 with him (and her) sidling up to the PM and hissing "gissa a job"!

Nancy66 · 07/03/2011 11:46

He's as thick as mince - but had no job. So this meaningless role was created for him.

He flies around the world (at tax payer's expense) with an entourage of 10...talking to rich arabs about investing in the UK.

His private life and the women he cavorts with is a massive can of worms just waiting to be spilt.

freshmint · 07/03/2011 12:37

he he he
it has been reported that the whole of the UKTI wanted him sacked but Gordon wouldn't do it as he thought it would be seen as a republican gesture and he really wanted the queen to like him

meditrina · 07/03/2011 12:46

Mr Cable's issue now, then.

My guess is that they won't want to look too jerked around by the press, but, if he really is that unwelcome, there will be a decent interval then a "scaling back" of the role.

It's a shame, really. In the past he held down a real job, as he did fly helos during the Falklands conflict.

< maybe he should retrain as a teacher? >

freshmint · 07/03/2011 12:58

scaling right back to windsor great park I hope

he can go and be patron of a load of golf courses that'll keep him in tartan trousers

grovel · 07/03/2011 14:50

I don't particularly want to defend the man but have been at a business gathering abroad where he was present doing his business ambassador stuff. One of the locals there was a government minister I'd been trying to get in front of for months. Prince Andrew marched me over to talk to him. 3 months later the company I work for had a multi million $ order. The order created 100 jobs in the UK. I don't think we would have won it if the minister had not wanted a chance to rub shoulders with our royalty.

Nataby · 07/03/2011 23:27

I was just going to start a thread on this and realised it's already been done. I dont agree with the statements that have been made about him needing to resign though.

He has not done anything wrong, apart from being friends with someone who has been found guilty of being a sexual predator. Sometimes even wives can't tell this about thier husbands, let alone business friends. From all accounts he is doing his job on behalf of the UK very well.

This is being blown way out of proportion. No grounds for resignation that I can see.

sue52 · 08/03/2011 22:03

Natby he stayed with his friend after he had served a prison term. I doubt that Prince Andrew could have been ignorant of that. I for one do not want him representing British business abroad.

BellaMagnificat · 11/03/2011 19:55

He's an arrogant, self-serving dullard with a massive sense of entitlement.

Yes have seen him in action and that still is my opinion.

meditrina · 12/03/2011 00:26

His forthcoming trip to Saudi Arabia has been called off.

This is on security grounds (which given the situation there is fair cause).

Animation · 12/03/2011 11:14

For years fergie got all the flack for both of them, and finally the spotlight's on him - fair and square. About time.

He doesn't have an honest or kind face to me.

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