School Leavers to swear oath to Queen!

efanZ said:
When you stop being a child and realise the whole world's purpose isn't to lie to you.
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i'm sorry, but all to often the people in power, or the people with the 'statistics' are proved time and again to miss out key parts that can change the whole balance, or are just bare faced liars, come out from under the rock and remove those rose tinted spectacles :rolleyes:
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Reminds me of the time I attended a fire in an Orange Lodge. It had only been a small fire in the kitchen and the lodge members had already put it out but we had been asked to attend to make sure everything was safe. In the middle of pulling out timber to check behind pipe chases I was asked to stand for the national anthem and the conversation went a bit like this -

"Stand for the national anthem"
"I'm a bit busy so you do what you like and I'll sort this"
"STAND for the NATIONAL ANTHEM'
"As I already said, I'm a bit busy ensuring this fire is actually out'
"STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM"
"Okay then, do you have a song sheet for Scotland The Brave as I'm not too sure about all the lyrics"
"OUT"
"Cheerio then'

I was within my rights to stay but the Orange Order lads where starting to get rather upset and I didn't want it to flare up. The Police where called for and the inspection went ahead with the occupants of the lodge glaring at me and more than a few times there where some choice adjectives being thrown my way. Still, I've got the skin of a rhino and that little meeting always makes me smile.

Vive la República de Escocia.
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Hehehe, quality man, fair play to ya. :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
I don't, that money goes towards Prince Philip and where else do you get so much entertainment for less than a fiver? Even going to the cinema now costs me about £7 and that is for 90-120 minutes of a film, with gaffes by Prince Philip I'm saving over £2 a year and he can be almost guaranteed to spread the amusement throughout the year.
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I don't know, he hasn't done anything good recently. I have a Prince Philip licence but I never really listen to him anymore.
 
Heil der queen

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KNiVES said:
My father would be absolutely raging at this. My family's come over from Ireland and I grew up here. If I was made to do this oath, it would be a slap in the face to my family and I would refuse. What would they do? Kick me out in a fit of authoritarian rage and be ridiculed by the rest of the civilised world? Don't make me laugh. To the Irish in the UK this is rather disgusting (and to a lot of others I'd imagine). Brown, you're a freaking idiot. Just let the others take your spot already. How you've managed to come from being the far more attractive alternative to Blair with tons more integrity to being the most unliked leader since WW2 is insane. Stop with these crackpot schemes already. You want to do something about this percieved 'identity crisis' when there are none, kick the illegal immigrants out and impose limits on future occurences.
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Lol not a chance of it being done over here.
 
bringerofdecay said:
only in recet years
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True, but at least they pay it. I just don't think it's right to call them "spongers" when they're employing other people and paying income tax at the same time. That's not my definition of a sponger.

Here's some interesting figures from Prince Charles' estate in 2006:


Clarence House's annual review shows Prince Charles paid nearly £3.3m in tax last year - the first time such a figure has been revealed.

Accounts also show his private income rose by 6% to more than £14m in 2005-06 on the back of commercial property rent reviews and higher investment returns.

Charles and Camilla were described as a "powerful force" for British interests. Along with his sons, they were said to cost every man, woman and child in the UK 3.5p, half a pence down on 2004-05.

[...]

* Official engagements: 642
* Private income: £14m
* Government grants: £2m
* Official expenditure: £8.6m
* Personal expenditure: £2.18m
* Total tax bill: £3.3m
* Charity turnover: £110m
* Letters received: 46,000
* Letters written: 2,567
* Office expenses: £135,000
* Gardening costs: £41,000
* Staff: 142
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Sauce. Full breakdown in .pdf format here.

So the bulk of his expenditure is official (ie. staff salaries, etc.) and he's paying tax at a rate of just over 40.6% - which seems fair enough to me.
 
Monkey Puzzle said:
I don't know, he hasn't done anything good recently. I have a Prince Philip licence but I never really listen to him anymore.
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Going on past history it is when he goes quiet for a while that he is really saving himself up for something monumentally crass - I've got high hopes for him if he takes the stand in the Diana enquiry as a rebuttal to Mr Al-Fayed and his "the World is scheming against me, them and the lizard people" or whatever he is ranting about this week.
 
semi-pro waster said:
I don't, that money goes towards Prince Philip and where else do you get so much entertainment for less than a fiver? Even going to the cinema now costs me about £7 and that is for 90-120 minutes of a film, with gaffes by Prince Philip I'm saving over £2 a year and he can be almost guaranteed to spread the amusement throughout the year.
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Damn straight! Phil the Greek is full of win!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWeLpiX_u0Y

:D
 
semi-pro waster said:
Going on past history it is when he goes quiet for a while that he is really saving himself up for something monumentally crass - I've got high hopes for him if he takes the stand in the Diana enquiry as a rebuttal to Mr Al-Fayed and his "the World is scheming against me, them and the lizard people" or whatever he is ranting about this week.
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Mohammed Al-Fayed: making David Icke look like the rational alternative.

:)
 
Evangelion said:
True, but at least they pay it. I just don't think it's right to call them "spongers" when they're employing other people and paying income tax at the same time. That's not my definition of a sponger.

Here's some interesting figures from Prince Charles' estate in 2006:


Clarence House's annual review shows Prince Charles paid nearly £3.3m in tax last year - the first time such a figure has been revealed.

Accounts also show his private income rose by 6% to more than £14m in 2005-06 on the back of commercial property rent reviews and higher investment returns.

Charles and Camilla were described as a "powerful force" for British interests. Along with his sons, they were said to cost every man, woman and child in the UK 3.5p, half a pence down on 2004-05.

[...]

* Official engagements: 642
* Private income: £14m
* Government grants: £2m
* Official expenditure: £8.6m
* Personal expenditure: £2.18m
* Total tax bill: £3.3m
* Charity turnover: £110m
* Letters received: 46,000
* Letters written: 2,567
* Office expenses: £135,000
* Gardening costs: £41,000
* Staff: 142
​

Sauce. Full breakdown in .pdf format here.

So the bulk of his expenditure is official (ie. staff salaries, etc.) and he's paying tax at a rate of just over 40.6% - which seems fair enough to me.
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Well I'm sure most people who aren't stupid or financially reckless could live off the money we give the royals, by employing savvy financial advisers and investing wisely. I wouldn't say that's really earning it though, just as a lottery winner who invests wisely isn't really working to earn it. I'd class that as sponging.
Also, Charles isn't a "powerful force". He's outspoken and often embarrassing, much like his father.
 
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