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Full marks to Danny Baker for his f*ck up.

Muppet

What a twunt!

I'm not a royalist, far from it and I'm really not interested in the baby.

But I have to admit this photo gave me a warm glow.

Monty wrote:
I'm not a royalist, far from it and I'm really not interested in the baby.

But I have to admit this photo gave me a warm glow.

Why ?
It is yet another burden on the taxpayer , that child will live a life of opulence and luxury never wanting for anything while there are people in true need on the streets , I find the whole thing disgusting .

I would guess Monty is looking at the multicultural aspect of it.

That photo would have been unheard of even 20 years ago.

Yep

He's been fired by the Beeb.

Are people who rely on media coverage for their income really that stupid? On what level does posting that publically make any sense?

He can't cry ignorance when he's been going on for decades about racism in football.

Just heard about this on the news.
I don't understand what he means when he says it was just a joke & not racist..?
I realise I probably don't have the most developed sense of humour, but in what way could that be* ?

( *Genuine question )

I've no idea what he was thinking. Maybe he thought he was being edgy. Perhaps he thought he could get away with it. But he's been on twitter long enough to know that everything tweeted soon spreads and that tweets get saved faster than they can be deleted.

He's a Millwall fan. They're forever getting into trouble for being racist, which includes monkey actions, monkey chants and throwing bananas.

He deserves the sack - for his own stupidity if nothing else.

Jack wrote:

Monty wrote:
I'm not a royalist, far from it and I'm really not interested in the baby.

But I have to admit this photo gave me a warm glow.

Why ?
It is yet another burden on the taxpayer , that child will live a life of opulence and luxury never wanting for anything while there are people in true need on the streets , I find the whole thing disgusting .

So essentially, people who can afford to have children, should stop having them, until the homeless problem has been solved??
I'm sure there's a logic to that, but I'm not seeing it.

Good looking baby, BTW....takes after his mom.

Jack wrote:.....It is yet another burden on the taxpayer , that child will live a life of opulence and luxury never wanting for anything while there are people in true need on the streets , I find the whole thing disgusting .

However, in balance, that's not the child's fault is it Jack.?
All of the Royals have the unearned trappings of their legacy, but in many ways their payoff is more than most of us would wish to pay.?
Buckingham Palace has plenty of empty bedrooms (except whenever Trump is visiting, when they'll be being re-decorated) & London has a lot of rough sleepers. There is plenty of potential for levelling out such inequalities. Isn't the blame more ours (democratically) than those born into the Royal family themselves.?

D41 the thing I object to and find disgusting is that the child is born into one of the wealthiest families on the planet and we the taxpayers will be funding its existence for the entirety of its life not only that but it will have a myriad of opportunities that are just not available to most people and it will be exempt from all sorts of taxes an duties that we are not .

It's a two-way street though....the royal family generates WAY more wealth for the British economy than they receive from it.

And as for opportunities? - Sure, to an extent....if you call every-aspect-of-your-life-under-a-microscope "opportunity".

D41 wrote:It's a two-way street though....the royal family generates WAY more wealth for the British economy than they receive from it.

Prove it

I don’t think it’s the Royal family that generates the wealth, it’s more so the history and buildings that are behind it.

That said, if we had a President instead, no doubt the cost to the taxpayer would be huge as well.

That's a pretty fair statement....the "royal institution", as-it-were is responsible as much as anything.

we don't need a president we have 650 mp's and the house of lords . It is the trappings of royalty that people come to see , the castles and palaces and ceremony like the changing of the Guard etc , no tourist ever comes to see the Queen or are sorely deluded if they do .

Yep. And plenty of people go to the White House without ever seeing the President, to Rome without ever seeing the Pope, and probably to Graceland without ever seeing Elvis. Doesn't mean they shouldn't go.