Royal Wedding

[bill]

So the royal wedding is set for Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011, which has been declared a bank holiday in celebration.

I wonder how many will go to work as a protest ?

[EMDEE]

" We need a party in Calais for all the good Republicans who can't stand the nauseating tosh that surrounds this event "

The Bishop of Willesden, the Rt Rev Pete Broadbent.

I see the bishop has been "asked ...to withdraw from public ministry until further notice". Looks like the C of E clergy are not allowed to express an opinion.

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx ... =155332413

Of course we have the bizarre situation that the monarch is the head of the Church of England and is therefore this bishop's boss. This is a position that Charles will inherit if he takes the throne, and what a wonderful theologian and paragon of virtue he is!

[ionnsaigh]

Charlie's paying for the do, but joe publics paying £20,000,000 for the security for 1 fkn
day, shite, pure shite!!!!!

What effect does a public holiday have on the economy ? Now don't get me wrong, I believe Workers should enjoy comparable holidays, at least with fellow Workers, in Europe ( although things will undoubtedly change, for the worse )
I would imagine if the Workers decided to have a national one day strike, we wouldn't have long to wait... before they screamed from the red tops and broadsheets, the cost....
£20 Million seems like a huge amount of money ( Scotland's SNP could not justify spending £7 Million ) Yet we are expected to pay a massive part of the public purse.. on security for a wedding. Why can't they continue to live in sin, as they claim to be Christians, one wonders what the Church of England's position is - when it comes to children being born out of wedlock - are we expected to have a bastard King - Of course from someone who doesn't hold religious views, I value every new born, regardless of the status of their parents. The Church are backing this Royal charade, regardless the hypocrisy and cost.. Perhaps on the day - and as a cost cutting measure - after all we live in a world of such measure Will and Kate should travel to Westminster Cathedral in an armoured Humvee. Save us all a couple of Bob.

[bill]

Looks like not every one will be rejoicing with an extra days holiday..............................

"Staff will only be entitled to take an extra day's paid annual leave on the day of the Royal wedding provided their contract is worded in the appropriate way, it has emerged.

Contracts that list specific bank holidays that staff are entitled to, such as Christmas Day or Good Friday, will not entitle staff to an extra day next year, according to Croner. Equally, staff whose contracts' state they are allowed 5.6 weeks' annual holiday "inclusive of bank holidays" are on dodgy ground

Only contracts which state the worker is entitled to four weeks' holiday a year "plus bank holidays" are likely to be safe, according to the company."

[Mr Plod]

[quote\]"He enacted salutory laws, sternly repressed robbery, caused the Sabbath to be observed". In his old age he went on a pilgrimage to Rome and died there.[/quote]

I'm all for that result. Send a few more on pilgrimage. In fact send the lot of them.

If they had a conscience (and they don't know the meaning of the word) they'd get married in a registry office, get an away day return to Blackpool, a bag of chips on the promenade and back home next day.

I mean even his faither, the "Great Carbuncle Decrier" himself, married his granny in a Guildhall and saved us from having to listen to the Archbishop Chocolate-Bottom of Canterbury lecture us all about stuff he thinks we're doing wrong or whatever tosh just drifted into his "Weird-Beard" skull that second from another space-time continiueum( Hmm dunno if I spelled that right - it looks a bit dodgy - feel free to spellcheck it lol).

I have a bit of a soft spot for big Phil the Greek pretender to the throne. He just shoots from the hip and damn the consequences. He think's he's still in the Raj the dozy old coffin-dodger. Let's make him King instead. At least we'd get a few laughs every now and then. And when he dies Charles can chuck him on his compost heap.

[EMDEE]

Mr Plod, your utterances are becoming more interesting and stimulating by the day. I am amazed at how much my views coincide with those of an ex-polisman. Great stuff.

[Govangirl]

EMDEE I totally agree, this one actually made me laugh out loud. Very stimulating indeed despite not agreeing with the views on education but that just makes it more interesting. Keep them coming Mr Plod!
And if you were in the polis too EMDEE, maybe you could have retired at 40 on a huge pension and devote all your time to writing! Only joking, only joking Mr Plod, I wouldn't have done your job for a million pounds and no joking.

[Mr Plod]

hahahahaha GG. Big pension? Did I miss something? My pension is sh*t. A senior officer's pension is big. But mines is sh*t. Hmmm.

Also I am in the catch 22 situation. Can't work cos retired due to injury, can't get gainful employment cos of said injury and strangely cannot get disability payments because although crushed vertibrae and severe deafnessin both ears due to injury ended my career, it's apparently not a disability according to the Patagonian (Witch)Doctor (Who picked up english by having conversations with Indian call centre workers over the phone) employed by the Benefits Agency.

Was an interesting interview. Me deaf as a post trying to read patagonian upside down in her report while she's taking notes in Patagonian and trying to speak to me in what she thought was english.

Got a "Dear Johnny" from the "Witchburner General" in Benefits Agency "Mind Control Central", Clydebank a few days later. There was a phone number you could phone or maybe the governor could phone for a last minute reprieve but in the end I was just totally pissed off that I had "died in the trenches" for those b*st*rds and went down there in person and gave them the "bent" back version of how to STICK THEIR BENEFITS IN AN ORIFICE OF THEIR CHOICE. So no Villa in Florida for me it would appear. Nice slippers though.

[Mr Plod]

Also I joined when I was 18 and retired with 31 years exemplary service, whatever that means................

[Govangirl]

severe deafness in both ears due to injury ended my career

Oh Lord, did you have to hold Ionns in a cell all night after catching him in the poll tax demo????

[bill]

So it seems Kate will be arriving at the abbey in an automobile.After the wedding service the wedding party will be returning to the palace for a buffet.

How common.

[gizmo]

Apparently Kate has asked Her Majesty for the secret to a long marriage. Her answer was to wear a seatbelt and dont piss off Prine Phillip.

[Mr Plod]

severe deafness in both ears due to injury ended my career

Oh Lord, did you have to hold Ionns in a cell all night after catching him in the poll tax demo????

No was a really nasty Mastoid infection that nearly killed me 20 years ago that caused it. Was lucky it was caught in time. There but for the grace of God go I. But I wore a hearing aid and got on with it. It was the back injury that finished me off.

Hahahahahaha I doubt Ionns would be daft enough to be caught in the first place. The Poll Tax Demos in Glasgow were actually well stewarded and actually I don't recall arresting anyone at the ones I performed duty at, and there were a lot of people at them. Sometimes the leaders would make a big scene for publicity and get lifted for disturbing the peace, but in general the mood was good natured. Maybe Scots just have a better sense of decorum on the subject of lawful protest.

And the only verbal interaction I ever got from a Socialist protester in the cells was from a really nice old lady from a protest group (which I think might have been called "Elderly Lesbians Against Trident" ) who on being presented with 2 rolls on Spam and a cup of tea in her cell promptly went "Tonto" because she was a "Vegan". This was in the days 25 years ago when a "Vegan" ( to a Glasgow cop ) was a Star Trek alien lifeform. Nowadays these sort of things never happen as all diets are properly provided for in modern policing. As it should be.

I think that a nice gesture would be for the Royal couple to invite every injured soldier and the families who have lost loved ones fighting for their country, and ditch the "A list celebs and politicos and hangers on" That would be the decent thing to do.