Good thing this got bumped back up. I see nothing has changed with Northern Ireland. Shocking. Where is our soothsayer?

India is demanding the Kohinoor diamond back LOL.

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Wouldn’t it be possible to have a * £0 coronation?

*Security would be the only absolutely necessary item. That could cost a lot. I’m not denying the need or saying that it is very little.

But for everything else, couldn’t it cost 0?

What line items cost something?
Refurbishing coats and crowns
Banquets
Invitations
Decoration such as wreaths and flowers
Carpet cleaning

If you bring those costs down (digital invitations, no banquet).. couldn’t it be done?

Liz Truss has been an absolute mess and will drive apart the Union

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Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

A week? Your predictions are hysterical. Yeah, let's check back next week.

What part ofIreland are they talking about? Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland.

Tour a couple of years ago and was told the population of NI is highly employed (65%) by the British government. I think NI is happy to be part of NI ad Republic of Ireland is happy to be left alone.

Hate to break it to you, but you are wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

A week? Your predictions are hysterical. Yeah, let's check back next week.

What part ofIreland are they talking about? Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland.

Tour a couple of years ago and was told the population of NI is highly employed (65%) by the British government. I think NI is happy to be part of NI ad Republic of Ireland is happy to be left alone.

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Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

A week? Your predictions are hysterical. Yeah, let's check back next week.

Oh wow you've started to see reality. You used to declare the U.K. would never dissolve. Now its...just a matter of time. Long live the King.

You mean the King that would never be according to you? You made the prediction of a week. Be prepared to eat your words. Must be hard for you to call him King Charles, something you couldn't fathom even happening. How many other times have you been wrong?

Never be? He's been heir since he was 13. Of course he was going to be King. I mean...there was a 50/50 chance he would die before his mother but that happens.

Now the question is will Charles manage to burn it all down? If you believe the rumors...quite possibly. And no I don't mind calling him King because I don't pay taxes for him.

Hmmm... I recall a lot of predictions that it would all end after the Queen died. This thread reads like a comedy of misinformation and fantasy. No wonder it's in the Entertainment forum.

The best thing about the British Royal family is that they know how to handle pesky Americans.

You mean their time-old tradition of coming over here and begging us for cash? Looking forward to the Wales shaking their cup for a new denied trade deal in the dead of winter. It'll be funny.

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Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

A week? Your predictions are hysterical. Yeah, let's check back next week.

Oh wow you've started to see reality. You used to declare the U.K. would never dissolve. Now its...just a matter of time. Long live the King.

You mean the King that would never be according to you? You made the prediction of a week. Be prepared to eat your words. Must be hard for you to call him King Charles, something you couldn't fathom even happening. How many other times have you been wrong?

Never be? He's been heir since he was 13. Of course he was going to be King. I mean...there was a 50/50 chance he would die before his mother but that happens.

Now the question is will Charles manage to burn it all down? If you believe the rumors...quite possibly. And no I don't mind calling him King because I don't pay taxes for him.

Hmmm... I recall a lot of predictions that it would all end after the Queen died. This thread reads like a comedy of misinformation and fantasy. No wonder it's in the Entertainment forum.

I mean it already started. Or have you not noticed a string of disruptions and much more virulent disrespect by the public towards the royals since the Queen passed?

Camilla was booed. Kate was confronted. Andrew was heckled. This all in the last three weeks or so.

I'm sure the senior courtiers are shocked.

It wasn't going to all fall in 24 hours. Even the French Revolution took 5 years.

This is what happens when you're only source of news is Twitter.

You haven't heard? Twitter is the source of social revolutions these days. Its no longer broadsheets though I'm sure you wished we could go back to the 1920s when the commoners knew their place.

If only knew the people you claim to care so much about. You live in your little Twitterverse yet have no connection to any of these people and claim to know what they think and feel.

One might say the poster is -- common.

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Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

A week? Your predictions are hysterical. Yeah, let's check back next week.

Oh wow you've started to see reality. You used to declare the U.K. would never dissolve. Now its...just a matter of time. Long live the King.

You mean the King that would never be according to you? You made the prediction of a week. Be prepared to eat your words. Must be hard for you to call him King Charles, something you couldn't fathom even happening. How many other times have you been wrong?

Never be? He's been heir since he was 13. Of course he was going to be King. I mean...there was a 50/50 chance he would die before his mother but that happens.

Now the question is will Charles manage to burn it all down? If you believe the rumors...quite possibly. And no I don't mind calling him King because I don't pay taxes for him.

Hmmm... I recall a lot of predictions that it would all end after the Queen died. This thread reads like a comedy of misinformation and fantasy. No wonder it's in the Entertainment forum.

The best thing about the British Royal family is that they know how to handle pesky Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will be fast, but I don't think young people view the monarchy with the kind of reverence that older generations do. Does anyone see William inspiring that kind of devotion? At some point a minor scandal may just be enough for parliament to wonder why they are supporting these people

They absolutely don't. And honestly Andrew was a major scandal but reverence for his mother allowed that to be ignored. Now with the cost of living crisis and winter literally coming...

I'll give the UK papers credit though, they have stood in formation. Somehow not one story on the largest transfer of wealth in nearly 75 years in that country, tax-free, and not a peep.

The dominance of conservatives in UK papers makes sinclair's dominance of US local media look like nothing

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Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

A week? Your predictions are hysterical. Yeah, let's check back next week.

What part ofIreland are they talking about? Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland.

I think the Belgian Queen abruptly taking the title’s away from her youngest son’s kids in an attempt to modernize might have the opposite effect. It’s just such a stark reminder of how archaic and the monarchy is and reminding people of primogeniture and capricious monarchs doesn’t seem like a good way to “future proof” the monarchy!

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Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

A week? Your predictions are hysterical. Yeah, let's check back next week.

What part ofIreland are they talking about? Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland?

Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will be fast, but I don't think young people view the monarchy with the kind of reverence that older generations do. Does anyone see William inspiring that kind of devotion? At some point a minor scandal may just be enough for parliament to wonder why they are supporting these people

They absolutely don't. And honestly Andrew was a major scandal but reverence for his mother allowed that to be ignored. Now with the cost of living crisis and winter literally coming...

I'll give the UK papers credit though, they have stood in formation. Somehow not one story on the largest transfer of wealth in nearly 75 years in that country, tax-free, and not a peep.

Anonymous wrote:How long before Northern Ireland declares independence? I give it a week...

Sinn Féin is already the majority party. If Truss starts cutting the way she promises, we may get a referendum (unlike Scotland where London can refuse, the Good Friday Agreement guarantees the right to one)