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ABC “SAFE FROM HARSH REALITIES”
Phillip Adams – lightly edited, admittedly – is harsh but fair:
The best arguments for the ABC don’t revolve around lofty issues of democracy. They concern compassion. For the ABC is a sheltered workshop to protect woeful journalists, amongst some of the most vacuous and vulnerable of our citizens.
Far from keeping the plebs out, the ABC’s high railings and security guards are there to keep them in, safe from the harsh realities that force similarly dysfunctional leftoids to live in cardboard boxes on Sydney’s streets, where any day or cold night of the week you’ll see old ladies as worthy as Liz Jackson wheeling their worldly goods around in supermarket trolleys.
Phil continues: “Have you ever heard one of them say anything interesting, let alone original or even mildly intelligent?” He’s on fire!
UPDATE. Adams writes of the royals: “Australia yearns to be rid of them.” Doesn’t he remember the referendum on the republic?
(Via Hal G.P. Colebatch)
UPDATE II. Imre Salusinszky writes: “Here’s an argument for constitutional monarchy. And here’s the republican case.”
Here’s some interesting facts which ol’Phil doesn’t know.
The Royal Family, in order to put on the civil list, give up their income from their own inheritence (ie, Crown Estate).
When The Queen came to the throne in 1952 she handed over the revenues from the Crown Estate to the government in return for an annual payment to meet the official costs of the monarchy.
What the Queen cost the Civil List: £36.2 million.
What the Revenues for the Crown Estate were: £170.8 million.
Yes, that’s right. The UK Government is making a profit off that deal. Funny, they never mention it to the public.
Anyway, can we say we are making the same profit out of Phillip Adams? If not, privatise the bugger!
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 04 09 at 03:00 AM • permalinkAnd to further hammer on my point: The Prince of Wales and his immediate family don’t receive any money from the Civil List, ie, the government.
Unlike Phil.
Who’s a parasite now?
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 04 09 at 03:02 AM • permalinkI wish he really was on fire. Then I’d could refuse to piss on him.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 04 09 at 03:09 AM • permalinkScuse my mistakes. I’s on the beer.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 04 09 at 03:11 AM • permalinkDreadful confession: I once thought PA was interesting and original. Mitigating circumstance: I was seventeen years old. And Catholic.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2005 04 09 at 03:57 AM • permalinkThe POW does own the Duchy of Cornwall though, and that’s a fairly large chunk of prime real estate.
The Mountbatten-Windsor’s ain’t hurting for dosh.
OTOH would *you* like a job where you can’t resign, are from birth constantly a paparazzi target, where every day of your working life you have to listen to yet another set of boring political gasbags while opening a bridge, or ferret farm, or spaghetti factory? And worse, you have to pretend that you like it?
I’m a Monarchist - but I admit that it’s real flaw is that it’s so dreadfully unfair to the Royal Family. No wonder some go off the deep end.
The POW does own the Duchy of Cornwall though, and that’s a fairly large chunk of prime real estate.
The Mountbatten-Windsor’s ain’t hurting for dosh.
Oh, I’m not saying they’re poorly off, I was just pointing out that revoking the deal whereby they get income from the Civil List, would actually meant a net LOSS for the taxpayer…unless, of course, government refused to return the Crown Estate.
Which in this day of big governmnent, is probably very likely…
;)
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 04 09 at 07:04 AM • permalinkSwinish Capitalist — The good news is, as a Catholic, you can always repent…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 09 at 10:55 AM • permalinkPrince Charles has, among other thigs:
1) Successfully commanded a “Ton”-Class Minesweeper for an extended period;
2) Completed SAS Parachute training;
3) Qualified as a military jet pilot;
4) Been proven right and ahead of his time on a whole swag of architecture, environment and lifestyle issues;
5) written some interesting and readable articles.
How many of these things has Phatty done? I can imagine him doing a parachute course ...
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 04 09 at 03:15 PM • permalinkWell y’know I am an American who is descended from Colonists who fought the tyrant King George so all I can say is viva la revolucion or something like that.
Well, the thing is, you Americans get taught a really warped version of George III in your school. He was actually one of the more popular kings. Hell, there were mass celebrations in New York when he ascended to the throne.
Even after the revolution, a third of the population of the US colonies still wanted to live in a constitutional monarchy, so left for Canada.
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 04 09 at 05:48 PM • permalinkEven after the revolution, a third of the population of the US colonies still wanted to live in a constitutional monarchy, so left for Canada.
Quentin, to sum up, for 225 years:
a) Canada has been collecting America’s useless riff-raff.
b) America has been collecting the world’s useful riff-raff.
As an American, I rather like that bargain.
Posted by David Crawford on 2005 04 09 at 07:20 PM • permalinkSusan Norton — he only qualfiied as a jet pilot so he could go AWOL… oh, wait, wrong guy.
And I can see Philco making one parachute jump…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 09 at 07:45 PM • permalinkUnfortunately, we now have useless riffraff as well, generated within the USA, as for example Mikey Moore and Noam Chomsky. Hey Canada, any chance you’ll take them off our hands?
George III was popular when he took over because everybody hated his Grand dad, George II (that included George III and his late father Frederick; bad blood between King and heir is a long, well-established tradition among the Windsors). He became much less popular by trying to inflict a progressive, modernizing government on both England and the Colonies. He recovered his popularity after he went mad and the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent, since Prinny was one of the most loathsome people of his time. I’ve always thought that, if the Monarchy could survive Prinny in the age of the French Revolution, it can survive Charles.
George III is said to have shown his madness by conversing with an oak tree under the impression he was talking to Frederick the Great. On the other hand, considering the probable intelligence level of his courtiers, that may have been the most intelligent and interesting conversation George had had in years, except for his discussions on Astronomy with William Herschel.
George saw a silver lining to the cloud of Americans becoming aliens to Britain, in that he thought us the most disgusting and ungrateful wretches in the world, and thus a separation was good for Blighty. It’s been long enough, we should forgive ol’ George. After all, we won. Magnanimity in victory and all that.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 04 09 at 08:06 PM • permalinkSlightly askew, but in that piece, Phatso recalls the late Diana telling him that the Queen’s favourite TV show was “Kojak”. Phil imparts this as a breathless confidence, but I can remember hearing this somewhere many years ago. Could Phil possibly be falling into the trap - common to those of advancing years and receding faculties - of recycyling tidbits gleaned from watching ‘Parkinson’, or whatever, into personal memories? Who loves ya, baby?
Cuckoo, I think you might be right.
A five minute search in Google around a few different terms finds this quote from an article about a month ago:
“Who loves ya, baby?” he used to say, with the lollipop in his mouth.
Well, Queen Elizabeth, for one. Once upon a time, the woman whom Bette Midler immortally described as “the whitest woman in the Western World” never shrank from telling a living soul that her favorite TV show was “Kojak.”
“Never shrank from telling a living soul….” - a little bit less than an exclusive for PA I think.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2005 04 10 at 08:32 PM • permalinkI’ll stop being a republican when Zara Phillips is offered the throne as Queen of Australia.
Posted by David Morgan on 2005 04 10 at 11:00 PM • permalinkHow many royals do we need to bypass before Zara can become queen:
Charles
William
Harry
Andrew
Beatrice
Eugenie
Edward
his little tacker
Anne
Zara’s brother
Zara!!!!!!!11th in line - nah, that’s too many disgraceful scandals to engineer, and for any IRA idiots out there, violence is OUT!
So Australia just has to go its own way and declare Zara Queen of Australia.
I can just see Zara handing out the Australia Day Honours every January 26 - in a bikini at the Yarralumla Australia Day Pool Party.
Posted by David Morgan on 2005 04 11 at 04:41 AM • permalink
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Very funny Tim…I THOUGHT it unlikely Adams would have made such insightful comments about woeful journalist, being one himself and all….