12-05-12, 08:00 PM
Every day I watch the world news and thank whoever it is up there that I was born in Britain. Before you all want to rip this great country to pieces- fancy a day or two in Baghdad or Tel-Aviv? Fancy running a street market stall in downtown Kandahar?
I like the Monarchy- its pagentry that Britain is built on not politics- who gives a monkeys what DC signes his love texts to Rebecca Brooks and what Clegg thinks and as for the boy Millipede :lol - but when the Queen comes out of Buck house - the streets are lined with people wanting to get a glimpse- she came to our village during the last Jamboree ten years ago- a tiny village in mid Wales and I was stood no more that three feet away from her burly bodyguard.... and she is tiny!
The thing I saw on the news this week was tree huggers trying to get the Empire taken out of the OBE, CBE etc. If you have done good things and Queenie would like to give you a gong are you really worried that this countries wealth was built on oppression and empire several hundreds of years before you or the tree huggers were born and at a different time and circumstances
A few hundred years ago we all lived in mud huts and life was cheap- it is no good asking for an apology for what was done all that time ago to ancesters you never knew. If you must think back to say Queen Vickies time- think how under the empire things improved in the countries that were part of the empire and how quickly they reverted to tribalism and barbarism as soon as we left... think of most of the African countries for example- Rhodesia- now Mugabe land- I dont think our history is too bad as an influencing nation.
I say keep the monarchy - it does more good than harm- which is more than can be said for the current Government and the Lords
I like the Monarchy- its pagentry that Britain is built on not politics- who gives a monkeys what DC signes his love texts to Rebecca Brooks and what Clegg thinks and as for the boy Millipede :lol - but when the Queen comes out of Buck house - the streets are lined with people wanting to get a glimpse- she came to our village during the last Jamboree ten years ago- a tiny village in mid Wales and I was stood no more that three feet away from her burly bodyguard.... and she is tiny!
The thing I saw on the news this week was tree huggers trying to get the Empire taken out of the OBE, CBE etc. If you have done good things and Queenie would like to give you a gong are you really worried that this countries wealth was built on oppression and empire several hundreds of years before you or the tree huggers were born and at a different time and circumstances
A few hundred years ago we all lived in mud huts and life was cheap- it is no good asking for an apology for what was done all that time ago to ancesters you never knew. If you must think back to say Queen Vickies time- think how under the empire things improved in the countries that were part of the empire and how quickly they reverted to tribalism and barbarism as soon as we left... think of most of the African countries for example- Rhodesia- now Mugabe land- I dont think our history is too bad as an influencing nation.
I say keep the monarchy - it does more good than harm- which is more than can be said for the current Government and the Lords
Greybeard now