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Charles is King of 15 countries - but for how much longer?
RuamRudy replied to onthedarkside's topic in World News
To add to your very reasonable comments, I think there is also a growing disquiet about the cost of the monarchy, their incessant demands for special exemptions (inheritance tax, for example) and the totally undemocratic nature of an unelected head is state who uses their position to further bolster their own affairs. -
I think now we are getting to the nub of the issue - are you talking about a piece of artistic effort, or easily digestible fodder for those more literal viewers. Do you want an historical re-enactment or something more artistically challenging? The world is surely big enough to allow both to exist without having to deride one or the other? (I am not sure why that sentence in the middle is in bold font - not intentional)
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Commented as in responded to a question posed of him.
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Utter racist drivel - he is as Scottish as anyone else who was born there. His affiliations clearly lie in Scotland, otherwise he would not be working to lead our country and his fellow Scots to independence.
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More to the point, our country's leader is not obliged to meet every overseas visitor, even a one-term president.
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Fair enough, although two points - it was scripted and filmed as a farce so the mannerisms were intended, and it was made pre-2007, the year we all (apparently) became infected with wokism.
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Then your memory of it's history is as unreliable as your memory of it's name. It successfully completed 9 seasons, coming to a natural conclusion without any controversy. Since then it has been celebrated on the BBC in 2007. To say it was taken off the air because of its format is factually incorrect.
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You are really getting yourself in a tangle here. On the one hand, you are criticising those who object to actors playing characters who's ethnicity or sexuality doesn't match their own, but on the other hand you are criticising the practice of... giving acting roles to people who's ethnicity or sexuality is different to the character they play. I think even Schroedinger would be confused about where you stand on that one.
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Hello? Hello??? Did you mean 'Allo, 'Allo, the successful BBC comedy which ran for 9 series between 1982 and 1992 with a revival in 2007?
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Good god, JonnyF, you are protesting against cultural appropriation. I would have never thought you would go woke. Robert Powell playing Jesus - outrageous!
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Is there over-representation of any minority? Can you offer empirical evidence to back up that suggestion, or is it merely a gut feel?
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I am not sure to whom you are referring, but I presume that they would play the character appropriately? Is there a particular gay actor who camps up a straight figure from history?
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Because the gays and the coloured people don't exist in the real world?
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Sunak was in Glasgow yesterday at the northern branch of of the Tory party conference (as an aside, the photos showing the hall at no more than 20% filled are a joy to see} and refused to answer journalists' questions on the matter. I guess what you would expect from a weak, spineless man who's ideology is nothing more profound than accumulation and self-aggrandisement.
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Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died
RuamRudy replied to Scott's topic in World News
In mourning? -
Are you serious? Actually, I think you might be - it would explain so much.
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Hello Transam - do you really want an echo chamber?
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If only they were Tories, they could cheat, lie, steal and offend with total impunity.
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Again, not all Christians stand with the Westboro Baptist church and not all Muslims advocate for death to homosexuals. The Ugandan parliament is currently pushing through a bill that is advocating for life imprisonment for homosexuals - a bill promoted and endorsed but Christians. Either all Christians are to be tarred by that aberration or you must accept that not all Muslims conform to your prejudice.
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There are extreme forms of every religion - the labels you threw out there can be applied to strains of Christianity and Judaism too. Likewise there are very modern Muslims who are fully integrated with Western values and eschew the negative traits you mentioned. You are a bigot if you refuse to recognise that.
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Labour and anti-Semitism or Tories and anti Islam - it seems that both parties have a sizeable section of bigots within them. Good to see Labour continuing to take a strong position against such people.
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How should those who vocally express opposition to Harry be treated? I presume you would expect similar treatment to those who object to his father? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/11/republican-protesters-arrested-king-charles-proclamation-events
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His association with the royal family? He is literally a member of the royal family! To a person, none of his relatives have anything to offer but that. He is no different to the rest of them in trying to maintain his relevance in a society that is increasingly realising that they are an undemocratic anachronism.
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I think you missed the point
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But most of us are not meant to be some moral figurehead, head of the church of England, about to be anointed by holy snake oil from the church of the sepulchre at great public expense etc.
