Anyway we can pay your King to keep him. We don’t want him back. 😀

Wish they would accommodate his housing at the Tower of London. 😎

2 minutes ago, Wake Up1 said:

Anyway we can pay your King to keep him. We don’t want him back. 😀

Do not panic we will return him ASAP

Are the Sussex duo invited too. Perhaps they could fly in with DT of AF1?

 

Will Don and Melania have separate bedrooms in the castle?

 

 

 

6 hours ago, JAG said:

Perhaps we need to differentiate between "soft diplomacy" and "soggy diplomacy".

 

There is little if any public appetite for this visit, it was a pretty egregious example of our Prime Minister manipulating the monarchy to suit his own political purposes ( principally poll ratings I suspect).

 

Heaven knows what crass statements will emerge!

 

I wonder if he will get to chat about mutual friends with The Duke of York?

 

It really would be very funny if escorts to any carriage processions were to be provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police!

Why

2 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Are the Sussex duo invited too. Perhaps they could fly in with DT of AF1?

 

Will Don and Melania have separate bedrooms in the castle?

 

 

 

That is not public information!

1 hour ago, CallumWK said:

 

And the source is?????????????

You know how to use Google.

57 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

It makes perfect sense that Trump stays at the castle. I'm sure it will present an excellent opportunity for him and the pedo prince to catch up on things.

After all it's highly likely they have shared much more than a few laughs together.

 

Nasty,

5 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

You know how to use Google.

 

So no credible source, as usual, from you. Thanks.

Just now, nauseus said:

 

Nasty,

Yes, they are. I'd even use the word vile.

Charles the first, executed as a convicted traitor, Charles the second, drunken womaniser, Charles the third woke traitor and appeaser for Islam. 🫢

3 hours ago, Old Croc said:

It is noticable that the noise, bluster and childish insults have slowed down considerably on this forum. Some have gone very quiet.

 

Maybe your ears work uni-directionally?

And for all those admittedly nice and sophisticated character traits in the OP, both Britain and Europe are sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss as we speak.

So the stiff upper lip and the British humour isn't really working now is it? And hey, I love the UK and the brits (well I used to...).

 

So for now, I will stick with orange man bad, warts and all.

 

And yes, the Epstein saga is deeply disappointing and worrying, unfortunately there was way to much overpromising and underdelivering, and now blatant lying. Sad.

I fear that this case is so big and so ugly that it will not ever be released officially (but parts may be leaked). Is Trump himself compromised? Possibly, but I hope not.

 

I hope this case will not derail all the good things started and still much more yet to come, and reverting back to the "normal" we have seen over that last few years.

8 hours ago, JAG said:

Perhaps we need to differentiate between "soft diplomacy" and "soggy diplomacy".

 

There is little if any public appetite for this visit, it was a pretty egregious example of our Prime Minister manipulating the monarchy to suit his own political purposes ( principally poll ratings I suspect).

 

Heaven knows what crass statements will emerge!

 

I wonder if he will get to chat about mutual friends with The Duke of York?

 

It really would be very funny if escorts to any carriage processions were to be provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police!

Another classic case of <removed>. POTUS Trump will be welcomed to the UK far more than that Little Napoleon who insulted the whole nation last week in front of our King telling us we were wrong to vote for Brexit - that comment alone confirmed we were 100% correct to vote for Brexit to be rid of the whole rotten European Union of Socialist Republics and the fact that our political leaders didn’t drag his sorry ar$e straight back to Northolt shows the utter contempt they hold us to.

1 hour ago, proton said:

Charles the first, executed as a convicted traitor, Charles the second, drunken womaniser, Charles the third woke traitor and appeaser for Islam. 🫢

Load of B.S!

Kink Charles was NOT a traitor;

Charles was found guilty of attempting to "uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people"!

In other words he was accused of being an "absolute Monarch" or in modern terms a dictator but NOT  a traitor.

As for the rest of your crap it is just that!

9 hours ago, Zaphod Priest said:

So, they choose to make a pretty feeble excuse for not housing him in Buckingham Palace and shunt him off to Windsor.  And the dates are such that Parliament is closed, so he won't be able to address it.  Is it possible that the authorities are not so keen on his visit - particularly after his disgraceful behaviour on his last state visit.

 

There's nothing wrong with the grandeur of Windsor Castle; the State Rooms are as magnificent or even more grand than those at Buckingham Palace.

 

 

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

As I've always said people with decent intellects can always come up with 100 ways to justify any position. You certainly win the trophy today. Have you completely forgotten about his first administration?

 

This man could not even spell the word loyalty. 

 

The only loyalty he respects demands is towards him. It's a one way street.

 

 

5 hours ago, pegman said:

I hope not for much longer. Can't remember the last time a Canadian Prime Minister received this honour. Trudeau only had a state dinner hosted by Liz as part of a group. I guess the largest country outside the UK in her realm did not rate compared to the Yank felon. Time to vote on a republic it seems.

 

Prime Ministers are not accorded State Visits, (as in the case of Canada, King Charles III is Head of State, and of 14 other realms, including New Zealand and Australia). It is only fitting that Trudeau would be given a dinner hosted by the then Prime Minister; it wasn't a State Dinner, which is only for heads of state.

9 hours ago, Zaphod Priest said:

Is it possible that the authorities are not so keen on his visit - particularly after his disgraceful behaviour on his last state visit.

As the authorities officially invited him and there was no "disgraceful behaviour" on his part last time, that's not even remotely likely.

1 hour ago, DezLez said:

Load of B.S!

Kink Charles was NOT a traitor;

Charles was found guilty of attempting to "uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people"!

In other words he was accused of being an "absolute Monarch" or in modern terms a dictator but NOT  a traitor.

As for the rest of your crap it is just that!

 

anyone can copy and paste, even you

 

On 30 January 1649, this resulted in the execution of King Charles I for ‘levying war against the said Parliament and People’ 

 

If waging war against the country and people is not being a traitor i'd like to know what is

1 hour ago, samtam said:

There's nothing wrong with the grandeur of Windsor Castle; the State Rooms are as magnificent or even more grand than those at Buckingham Palace.

Also, it has got a really good fire alarm!

2 hours ago, samtam said:

There's nothing wrong with the grandeur of Windsor Castle; the State Rooms are as magnificent or even more grand than those at Buckingham Palace.

 

It's still a snub.

11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

A meeting of two kings. One is real, the other imagined. So sad for British people to host this brute. 

 

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

"A few things spring to mind. 

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

 

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

 

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. 

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. 

 

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

 

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of bull<deleted>. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

 

 

Nail, hammer, head, are the words that come to my mind.

 

Lawrence O'Donnel's 'The Last Word' on You Tube is similarly if more acerbically dead on target.

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

As the authorities officially invited him and there was no "disgraceful behaviour" on his part last time, that's not even remotely likely.

 

You clearly missed it when I posted some of his disgraceful behaviours:
 

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Arriving late for his meeting with the Queen

Walking in front of the Queen

Looking over the Queen's shoulder

Touching the Queen's body

Dressing like a slob in an ill-fitting suit

Making political comments during a State visit, including tweets about the Mayor of London

 

 

 

29 minutes ago, Zaphod Priest said:

 

You clearly missed it when I posted some of his disgraceful behaviours:
 

 

 

None of that was "disgraceful" behaviour                      .

8 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

None of that was "disgraceful" behaviour                      .

 

I'm sorry that you think that.  Maybe standards of etiquette are lower in Liverpool.

9 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

As I've always said people with decent intellects can always come up with 100 ways to justify any position. You certainly win the trophy today. Have you completely forgotten about his first administration?

 

This man could not even spell the word loyalty. 

Yes, I am aware of the 1st administration mistakes. You don't see him repeating them do you?

As I wrote, the man is old school. When it works, the results are fantastic and when it does not, the negative results are fast and destructive. I worked at a large US multinational that had this type of leadership and culture. Loyalty and office political  alliances  defined the workplace. It was typical of the  1990's and early 2000's. Overall, it was a miserable work experience, high stress, unfulfilling  and unhealthy, and yet the company's  value increased by billions, and I made a large income, received stock options,  a decent pension and healthcare plan that most  workers never see.  This is life in the large US real estate and financial services sector. You eat what you kill. The more ruthless and savage you are in pursuit of the target, the  greater the likelihood of success and  receiving the reward. Unfortunately, some people leave a lot of collateral damage along the way. It's been like this since Philip of Macedonia marched his way across Asia, and the Roman Empire came and went.

 

10 hours ago, Jonnapat said:

Absolutely disgusted by this.

I hope the British public give him the welcome deserving of a narcissistic felon.

Unlikely the public will get close. That's why Windsor with its ample space that can act as a buffer was selected as the  meeting place

And what exactly, would protestors achieve?  They would be better served to invest the time in helping their own families or in community service like a riverbank clean up. Instead, the protestors will come and leave an environmental mess, litter and human waste left everywhere, natural plant life destroyed, animal life disrupted, all for the sake of saying they carried an anti Trump placard.

6 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

So no credible source, as usual, from you. Thanks.

It was an AI Google search result, based on previous articles, it was actually from a 'left leaning' website... but you wont believe anything i say because you are a no believer batty boys

8 hours ago, samtam said:

There's nothing wrong with the grandeur of Windsor Castle; the State Rooms are as magnificent or even more grand than those at Buckingham Palace.

 

I've never taken an interest in this stuff, then I saw the first two seasons of "The Crown" (Claire Foy was great, also the actress who played the hot version of her sister).  There was a scene where the queen was bothered by the remarks of a certain US first lady so the queen invited her back to entertain her at Windsor Castle and had her witness a martial display with full regalia, portrayed as subtly aggressive.  Maybe that's the idea this time too, something to do with the bs about annexing Canada?

 

11 hours ago, Wake Up1 said:

Wish they would accommodate his housing at the Tower of London. 😎

 

Great idea!  Give him the "all seasons" treatment, with the same send-off.

 

 

10 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

None of that was "disgraceful" behaviour                      .

The standards of disgraceful and highly undiplomatic behavior have been reduced by having a hateful, vindictive, lowlife clown in the white house. 

10 hours ago, frank83628 said:

It was an AI Google search result, based on previous articles, it was actually from a 'left leaning' website... but you wont believe anything i say because you are a no believer batty boys

 

So an opinion, not actually a source. Thanks for confirming it was just something pulled out of your hat