I take it that as someone that is so against feudal dynasties i.e. Monarchies, that you will be renouncing y our Canadian citizenship shortly and be moving to the USA or elsewhere similar. You would not want to leave yourself open to thoughts of hypocrisy I am quite sure.

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I've seen where you've made this kind of post before. Poor. Very poor.

:-[

What you are doing here of course is to side track it off on a tangent to highlight the plight of young people trying to make their way in the world today. The majority of young people do go on to achieve what I outlined, but yes there are a faction that don't and can't, that is sad and true.

It is sad but understandable that you have such a bitter view of the world at such a young age, I sincerely hope that changes for you.

Sirius is partly correct in that the UK will never become a Republic in the lifetimes of anyone on these boards, however much they might wish it or dream it. A Regional State of the EU? Well some think that we are partly that now, but we have a large number of opt-outs that other Members do not have, and it is still possible that we may get more, or even leave after a referendum.

But it has been useful I feel to see the general responses received which have highlighted that people feel strongly regarding a number of interwoven issues.

The British Monarchy Covered by this thread
Practicality of Republics open for discussion
The future of the EU covered by the EU threads
Young peoples futures Covered by the 5 year future of the UK

Each topic deserves a thread in it's own right. Who wants to start them?

The UK will be nothing but a regional state within the "grand" US of E.

The UK will be nothing but a regional state within the "grand" US of E.

Which may well be why the parents are so peeved at the photos. They already know the Queen is the last monarch. Then there will be the US of E. That kid will have to go work for the man to earn his food.

God save the Brussels!

I take it that as someone that is so against feudal dynasties i.e. Monarchies, that you will be renouncing y our Canadian citizenship shortly and be moving to the USA or elsewhere similar. You would not want to leave yourself open to thoughts of hypocrisy I am quite sure.

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I've seen where you've made this kind of post before. Poor. Very poor.

:-[

Don't worry, personal attacks are usually a sign that the person has no real argument to make.

I take it that as someone that is so against feudal dynasties i.e. Monarchies, that you will be renouncing y our Canadian citizenship shortly and be moving to the USA or elsewhere similar. You would not want to leave yourself open to thoughts of hypocrisy I am quite sure.

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I've seen where you've made this kind of post before. Poor. Very poor.

:-[

Don't worry, personal attacks are usually a sign that the person has no real argument to make.

I highly doubt you wanted your two sons hounded at the age of 2. No child of that age deserves that, royal or not.

You know that, but you jumped on the bandwagon of questioning the UK continuance of royalty. That should be for another thread.

I highly doubt you wanted your two sons hounded at the age of 2. No child of that age deserves that, royal or not.

People here seem to enjoy bringing my personal life into this discussion.]/quote]

However, my children did not have any of the privileges that the royal children do, they will however have to subsidise these people. Fortunately not so much here in Canada.

You know that, but you jumped on the bandwagon of questioning the UK continuance of royalty. That should be for another thread.

Incorrect. There was no bandwagon. What I did see was a sinister and quite fascist demand that these photographers be arrested and deported. Such a horrible and offensive post needed to be put in perspective.

The royal family are parasites. They have no place in modern Britain or Canada. As such I have very little sympathy for them. Certainly not enough to start behaving like a police-state towards people trying to photograph them. If the paparazzi are breaking any laws such as assault or trespass, they should be dealt with as if they were harassing any other citizen.

There is no enjoyment.

Perhaps unlikely, but there could be a time when you become a person the media pays attention to, starts to hound you and then hound your children. (Now, to further point out the lack of enjoyment, this could happen, no matter how unlikely it is not impossible, to any poster or reader no matter the gender or amount of their younglings.
If that happens to you or anyone else, your children should not be dragged into the media's new and sudden obsession with you.

Incorrect. There was no bandwagon. What I did see was a sinister and quite fascist demand that these photographers be arrested and deported. Such a horrible and offensive post needed to be put in perspective.

The royal family are parasites. They have no place in modern Britain or Canada. As such I have very little sympathy for them. Certainly not enough to start behaving like a police-state towards people trying to photograph them. If the paparazzi are breaking any laws such as assault or trespass, they should be dealt with as if they were harassing any other citizen.

Most or all of this sounds like something for another thread.

I suspect a lot of it is anger at the Paparazzi and the role they had in Diana's death.

People here seem to enjoy bringing my personal life into this discussion. However, my children did not have any of the privileges that the royal children do, they will however have to subsidise these people. Fortunately not so much here in Canada.

The royal family are parasites. They have no place in modern Britain or Canada.

Not at all. What you saw was something that you, on your own, personally disagreed with. Yet you have worded it as if it is also everybody else's opinion. So, lets have a poll shall we? Hands up all those that agree with ES99, that Chris's post was "horrible, offensive, sinister, and quite fascist".

I also find it ironic when people demand that certain groups be arrested and deported, forgetting that the Royal Family are German immigrants and former Nazi sympathisers.

It seems to me that I missed out an intended letter"r". Probably a Freudian slip thinking about the anti monarchy brigade whilst posting.

There are subtle differences between empathy, sympathy, compassion, and commiseration. Go look them up.

PS I actually believe the Royal Family is good for the UK, as it is a big tourist attraction and brings in more than it costs us. It serves no other purpose.

The royal family are parasites. They have no place in modern Britain or Canada.

I can't believe a Brit wrote the emboldened above. If you believe that 100%, can you write to Cameron & tell him to get the hell out of Northern Ireland & hand the 6 counties back to Ireland as they were took by force.

Or even better, all Irishmen the world over return home in time for Easter 2016 & take up arms & kill every last Brit on Irish soil.

Nasty attitude to have? After what you have written, I have the right to say that about Brits on foreign soil.

For every action there is a reaction.

BTW, who would you have replace them? President Blair? President Cameron?

I'm a Johnny Foreigner & I'd much prefer this country to remain a monarchy rather than a republic.

There is no enjoyment.

Then why do it?

Perhaps unlikely, but there could be a time when you become a person the media pays attention to, starts to hound you and then hound your children. (Now, to further point out the lack of enjoyment, this could happen, no matter how unlikely it is not impossible, to any poster or reader no matter the gender or amount of their younglings.
If that happens to you or anyone else, your children should not be dragged into the media's new and sudden obsession with you.

Agreed, however, when my children have access to the things that the royal children have at the public's expense, the public will no doubt want their pound of flesh. If not for the public entertainment, what are they actually for?

Incorrect. There was no bandwagon. What I did see was a sinister and quite fascist demand that these photographers be arrested and deported. Such a horrible and offensive post needed to be put in perspective.

The royal family are parasites. They have no place in modern Britain or Canada. As such I have very little sympathy for them.

Certainly not enough to start behaving like a police-state towards people trying to photograph them. If the paparazzi are breaking any laws such as assault or trespass, they should be dealt with as if they were harassing any other citizen.

Most or all of this sounds like something for another thread.

As far as I can tell this thread is about the Paparazzi. What did you think it was about?

There is no enjoyment.

Then why do it?

See the bolded below.

Perhaps unlikely, but there could be a time when you become a person the media pays attention to, starts to hound you and then hound your children. (Now, to further point out the lack of enjoyment, this could happen, no matter how unlikely it is not impossible, to any poster or reader no matter the gender or amount of their younglings.
If that happens to you or anyone else, your children should not be dragged into the media's new and sudden obsession with you.

Clearly, "you" and "your" were like "Sie" in Deutsch, rather than "du" and "dein"

Agreed, however, when my children have access to the things that the royal children have at the public's expense, the public will no doubt want their pound of flesh. If not for the public entertainment, what are they actually for?

So, your solution to bread and circuses is to replace it with a different type of bread and different circuses? Spoiler alert: Katniss shoots Coin, not Snow. Why?

Incorrect. There was no bandwagon. What I did see was a sinister and quite fascist demand that these photographers be arrested and deported. Such a horrible and offensive post needed to be put in perspective.

The royal family are parasites. They have no place in modern Britain or Canada. As such I have very little sympathy for them.

No, correct. This is off topic, so discuss the need or lack of need for royals in the new thread.

Also note that dehumanizing those on welfare is the same as dehumanizing royals. Dehumanizing is dehumanizing no matter who it is about and how it is worded. We all suffer for it.

Certainly not enough to start behaving like a police-state towards people trying to photograph them. If the paparazzi are breaking any laws such as assault or trespass, they should be dealt with as if they were harassing any other citizen.

Most or all of this sounds like something for another thread.

As far as I can tell this thread is about the Paparazzi. What did you think it was about?

By separating your quotes, we can finally see the only spot where you discussed paparrazi. What did you and others try to turn the thread's topic to be?

Last, I think it was Bernie who said and said it well enough about someone's recent posting behavior. The only thing to add was about separating out the points into different threads, which has now been done (though not assisted by the mods in the movement of particular posts into the appropriate thread(s)).

So, your solution to bread and circuses is to replace it with a different type of bread and different circuses? Spoiler alert: Katniss shoots Coin, not Snow. Why?