Off Topic Trevor Sinclair

Can you just **** off you

 

Bloody spoilsport

 

There's the alternate shield being deployed......

 

Lads used to use the 'too much to drink your honour' excuse ...

... these days the default is mental health issues.

 

If he's got mental health issues he should know not to post something massively inflammatory that would inevitably bring negative attention on himself and therefore exacerbate his problems. Public figures can't just say whatever the hell they like then say "mental health, leave me alone".

"It's not how many times you get knocked down" you knocked yourself down mate. Full K.O most likely.

 

That pisses me off more than his comments to be honest. It does such a disservice to people actually suffering from mental health issues. PR company trying to save his job no doubt.

 

Since when was being a ****er a mental health issue

 

If you do it during therapy?

 

Damn. Better stop that then

 

I was going to say similar, but you said it better than I could.
Blokes an absolute arsehole.

 

It's not at all mate. I've recovered from my mental health issues, but I'm still a ****er which proves they're not linked.

 

Not from the republic. From a university lecturer. People need to read this if they want to have a rational not emotional view of what the Royal Family are and do and how much they care about their subjects and our wealth. Read this then tell me who should pay for the coronation . The taxpayer ? The British economy ? Or TheCrown.com https://novaramedia.com/2022/09/09/the-royals-are-at-the-heart-of-british-capitalism/

 

Like Republic, Novara Media can't be considered to be a balanced source. An organisation that advocates 'fully automated luxury communism' clearly has an agenda. Of course the Royal family has commercial interests and investments but this source is going to spin it to make it sound as bad as possible. This is only one side of the argument.

 

Ok what about this ? Do you have a source not tainted by government, royal influence and support for global capitalism? Tell me which bits of this you think aren’t true https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/04/royal-family-monarchy-prince-andrew-queen-finances-capitalism

 

Found this article. Seems impartial as it's a fact checking website

https://fullfact.org/economy/royal-family-what-are-costs-and-benefits/

 

I often think people get their idea of how much the Royal family costs the country from series 3 of Blackadder.

 

I’ve met laura clancy at Manchester university, and whilst she’s obviously bright, she has an agenda. There will be articles by academics denying her views, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I personally think there’s a time for promoting anti royalist sentiments, and now’s not it.

 

I've no idea about the true costs and benefits, I doubt if anyone has tbh.

However, if they bring in such huge amounts of money why do we all have to pay for them at all. It's interesting how support for the Royal Family fluctuates depending on what they're up to. I'd imagine there are people who were sure the Queen, and her family, were involved in Diana's 'accident' who are now grieving over her passing.

I'm not fussed about the Royals, either way, it's just another soap opera imo and pretty harmless.

 

My two pennies worth...

If you have lots of companies trying to provide goods and services, those with the best quality and price will thrive...capitalism if you like, working.

If you have natural monopolies, such as water, power, rail etc. Handing them over to a private company will usually result in poor service, high prices and the owners reaping high dividends.

A case in point, is water, I have read, since privatisation £72bn has been distributed as dividends and cash buy-backs. I believe no new reservoirs have been built, leakage is still about the same and siht and pollution is put into rivers and seas.

Rail privatisation has lurched from one crisis to another, with the Govt having to take over.

As for power..it certainly doesn't seem to have been managed for the benefit of its customers.