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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Anyone else fed up with it yet? Wall to wall coverage on every news network, media and newspapers.

In these times of people struggling with the cost of living crisis is it justified spending £1 billion on this event/occasion?.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There calling it "Happy platy jubes " on the radio

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By *bzboy66Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

I was caught sleeping. If I'd any brains I'd have set up a burger van in an appropriate busy meeting spot thereby helping to redistribute some of that one billion into my pocket. ...just need to learn to cook an egg, fry a sausage and we're sorted....could even had had the Andrew guy flipping burgers as he was never getting the invite..

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By *oanne_MacTV/TS
over a year ago

Perth

Im back up in Scotland this weekend, and glad of it.

Over the border 1 in 5 houses is covered in union jack flags and bunting, every 2nd car it seems has a flag...

Its actually giving me the heave.

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By *oanne_MacTV/TS
over a year ago

Perth

"I was caught sleeping. If I'd any brains I'd have set up a burger van in an appropriate busy meeting spot thereby helping to redistribute some of that one billion into my pocket. ...just need to learn to cook an egg, fry a sausage and we're sorted....could even had had the Andrew guy flipping burgers as he was never getting the invite..

Im waiting till next week when its over and gonna buy up loads of cheap bunting.

Then when its funeral time i'll flog it all at a mark up.

Im no daft

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By *scobar67Man
over a year ago

glasgow

Celebrate a monarchy that live off our taxes??? ... Pay sexual abuse victims so her nonce son doesnt get jailed.... I could go on but I'll not

Have a good weekend but don't celebrate that nonsense

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By *bzboy66Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Im waiting till next week when its over and gonna buy up loads of cheap bunting.

Then when its funeral time i'll flog it all at a mark up.

Im no daft

Good business plan. Needs to be a sunny day so the window extends to late August, otherwise next year. In that case you'll need somewhere to store it...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the celebrations on tv. The Queen has been an amazing asset for this country, although I admit some of her family have not!

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By *mooth Operator 07Man
over a year ago

in the deep mist of the valleys

"Celebrate a monarchy that live off our taxes??? ... Pay sexual abuse victims so her nonce son doesnt get jailed.... I could go on but I'll not

Have a good weekend but don't celebrate that nonsense

100%

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im waiting till next week when its over and gonna buy up loads of cheap bunting.

Then when its funeral time i'll flog it all at a mark up.

Im no daft

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a waste of money.

At her age I'm sure she'd be happy with the afternoon off for a wee nap and Radio 4 in the background.

All the Union Jack wavers could still have a party in their garden to celebrate with a carry out. The pomp and ceremony is a lot of pish.

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By *iving for todayMan
over a year ago

stirling

"It's a waste of money.

At her age I'm sure she'd be happy with the afternoon off for a wee nap and Radio 4 in the background.

All the Union Jack wavers could still have a party in their garden to celebrate with a carry out. The pomp and ceremony is a lot of pish."

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By *ellinever70Woman
over a year ago

Ayrshire

Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch "

How do you reach that conclusion? I've no issue with people celebrating what they like and in any way they choose. But in light of the endless press coverage about ordinary people struggling with the cost of living, the money spent on this is completely unjustified and distasteful.

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By *p for anything 123Man
over a year ago

Coatbridge

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By *p for anything 123Man
over a year ago

Coatbridge

"Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch

Totally 100% ...Money being spent is a disgrace

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By *ellinever70Woman
over a year ago

Ayrshire

"Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch

It's estimated to bring in more than it costs p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Plus the fact auld lizzy only showed up twice on a balcony yesterday to justify the amount of coverage and cost is a joke!.

Wee changing of her bearskin guards a wave on her balcony would have done the same same job.

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By *he feckersCouple
over a year ago

rosyth

Aye it's all a load of jingoistic bollocks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We spend money other useless things like drug abuse and alcoholism but it's a one off we will never see another one it b all over by Mon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We spend money other useless things like drug abuse and alcoholism but it's a one off we will never see another one it b all over by Mon "

How is money spent on helping people overcome addictions with the aim of becoming functioning members of society wasted?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch

It's estimated to bring in more than it costs p"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch

It's estimated to bring in more than it costs p"

You go put up your bunting then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch

It's estimated to bring in more than it costs p"

By who?

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By *ellinever70Woman
over a year ago

Ayrshire

"Christ, but you're a begrudging joyless bunch

It's estimated to bring in more than it costs p

By who?"

The same folk anticipating the cost

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That doesn’t make sense

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We spend money other useless things like drug abuse and alcoholism but it's a one off we will never see another one it b all over by Mon "

Not sure helping people with substance abuse issues is wasting money but £700 million on an Edinburgh tram system and we still have poor public transport links to our major airports is my biggest gripe when it comes to wasting money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I actually quite like it but I’ve hardly seen anything about it other than when I watched the news this morning while eating my breakfast.

Something I don’t understand is why people go out their way to get upset. Watch something else on tv, there’s more channels not showing it than there is showing it. Scroll past it on your news feed if it’s online news you read. Don’t buy a newspaper if it upsets you.

I spent the whole day at loch goil and not once did I hear or see anything about it since I left the house.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

?????? love the Queen and will and Kate. As for Andrew he should be taken to task. Anti royalists just immediately say they cost us money. They've gotten with the times and stripped the free loaders back. But what about the 18 billion they bring into the country no one wants to mention that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A 96 year old woman still working in a job she never asked for, 70 years serving her country with dignity and decorum, respected and revered the world over. 70 years of being at the beck and call of various governments, of not being able to voice a personal opinion in public, of being under a media spotlight 24/7 . 70 years of being accused by communists, socialists, republicans and nationalists of being a burden to the tax payers due to the millions received from the state when in fact Forbes estimate the House of Windsor contributes 19 BILLION to the British economy annually. So at the end of the day whether you celebrate this platinum jubilee or not it is your choice, no one is forcing you, especially not Her Majesty. The divine right of monarchs ended a long time ago ( you can thank King William III)

I for one will be

God bless you ma,am

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd like to know how everyone on the Mall could afford to travel to be there tonight, what with the cost of living sky rocketing. I'm sure not all of them are from London x

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By *6travellerMan
over a year ago

Tayside, Midlands and Chester

She is NOT Queen Elizabeth II, who does she think she is changing history? She is QEII in England but in Scotland she is just QE, there has not been an Elizabeth on the throne of Scotland before. If it was hood enough for James VI of Scotland to be James I of England and so on, Queenie should respect historical facts. The who monarchy thing is outdated and time for the scroungers to hand every penny they have stashed away from the taxpayers back to the country.

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By *6travellerMan
over a year ago

Tayside, Midlands and Chester

What nonsense.

https://www.republic.org.uk/the_true_cost_of_the_royals

Tourist would still visit the castles, tower of London, etc if we got rid of the so called royals.

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By *ew couple4youCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

We had a great couple of days off and a great street party. Everyone is entitled to there opinion but hope everybody enjoyed there weekend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We had a great couple of days off and a great street party. Everyone is entitled to there opinion but hope everybody enjoyed there weekend "

Speak for yourself you showoff. I was working back shift till 11pm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We had a great couple of days off and a great street party. Everyone is entitled to there opinion but hope everybody enjoyed there weekend

Speak for yourself you showoff. I was working back shift till 11pm

Atleast it wasn't nightshift

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We had a great couple of days off and a great street party. Everyone is entitled to there opinion but hope everybody enjoyed there weekend

Speak for yourself you showoff. I was working back shift till 11pm

Atleast it wasn't nightshift"

That was Thursdays shift. 2 days off now thankfully

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm the same last night off for 4 looking forward to a fun couple of days.

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By *ontrosebicoupMan
over a year ago

MONTROSE

All these folk celebrating a family that paid to keep a beast out the jail need heads looked at

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm the same last night off for 4 looking forward to a fun couple of days."

Enjoy mate. You deserve it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All these folk celebrating a family that paid to keep a beast out the jail need heads looked at "

Totally agree. I do believe he is a total wrong one. But I'm going to be totally facetious here. The case centres around his meeting with her in London. Am i correct? She was 17 at the time so technically not done anything wrong so long as she consented which as far as I am aware she did.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Personal I don't believe a German family should rule over Britain but I bare the queen no ill will

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By *ontrosebicoupMan
over a year ago

MONTROSE

Nope they wanted to charge him in states where she is well under age plus look who his friends were

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By *ane DTV/TS
over a year ago

Glasgow ish

"Personal I don't believe a German family should rule over Britain but I bare the queen no ill will"

Just out of curiosity and in general terms, when does an immigrant family actually become "British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish"?

Because if we all look back in our family trees I'm sure 99.995+% of us will find "immigrant" blood somewhere.

Or is this a special case?

Would you be happy if someone with an African or heritage became prime minister or first minister?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1billion cost maybe we will get those ferry's finished for the same price

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Nope they wanted to charge him in states where she is well under age plus look who his friends were"

I don't disagree that he is a predator and should be held accountable.

But this case was centered around Tramp nightclub in London. She was of legal age in uk at the time.

Trying to charge him in states where she was under age is like. U meet an American student scotland who is 17. You have sex with her. She returns to new York where age of consent is 18. She tries to press changes against you for sex with a minor and have u extradited to face that charge.

What Is your thoughts on this scenario?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Personal I don't believe a German family should rule over Britain but I bare the queen no ill will

Just out of curiosity and in general terms, when does an immigrant family actually become "British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish"?

Because if we all look back in our family trees I'm sure 99.995+% of us will find "immigrant" blood somewhere.

Or is this a special case?

Would you be happy if someone with an African or heritage became prime minister or first minister?

Gotta love our nationalist English patriots who hate Muslims. Yet fly the st George Cross not realising st George was a Syrian immigrant.

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By *ane DTV/TS
over a year ago

Glasgow ish

"Personal I don't believe a German family should rule over Britain but I bare the queen no ill will

Just out of curiosity and in general terms, when does an immigrant family actually become "British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish"?

Because if we all look back in our family trees I'm sure 99.995+% of us will find "immigrant" blood somewhere.

Or is this a special case?

Would you be happy if someone with an African or heritage became prime minister or first minister?

Gotta love our nationalist English patriots who hate Muslims. Yet fly the st George Cross not realising st George was a Syrian immigrant. "

Or Robert D'Bruce was an Anglo Norman.

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By *scobar67Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"A 96 year old woman still working in a job she never asked for, 70 years serving her country with dignity and decorum, respected and revered the world over. 70 years of being at the beck and call of various governments, of not being able to voice a personal opinion in public, of being under a media spotlight 24/7 . 70 years of being accused by communists, socialists, republicans and nationalists of being a burden to the tax payers due to the millions received from the state when in fact Forbes estimate the House of Windsor contributes 19 BILLION to the British economy annually. So at the end of the day whether you celebrate this platinum jubilee or not it is your choice, no one is forcing you, especially not Her Majesty. The divine right of monarchs ended a long time ago ( you can thank King William III)

I for one will be

God bless you ma,am"

I'm no sure where you got that 19 million figure from mate but I doubt very much they bring in that amount

Oh and her sons a nonce

She used 12 million to keep him out of court!!!!

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By *8guyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Can't dispute that Andrew is perceived as a 'nonce' as you say...but the Queen didn't pay the £12m. The vast majority came from the sale of his own property he had overseas, primarily a skiing chalet somewhere in Europe.

Personally, if he had nothing to fear he should have gone to court to challenge the individual and defend himself.

However, there's no excuse for either a family or an organisation denying or hiding that they had a "nonce or more" living or working in their midst.

It'll come back to bite them on the arse and cost them big-time in the end when the dirty washing is finally brought into the public gaze during a court case.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I for one will be

God bless you ma,am

I'm no sure where you got that 19 million figure from mate but I doubt very much they bring in that amount

Oh and her sons a nonce

She used 12 million to keep him out of court!!!! "

It says in the statement that figure was researched be forbes media

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By *illi3736Woman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Funny isn't it how they go on a forum named Jubilee to tell us they dont care about the Jubilee lol.

In these hard dull times it has brought some colour and pleasure to many. The begrudgers are just malcontents and party poopers.

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By *ewbies1994Couple
over a year ago

Renfrewshire

I personally consider the union jack as a English thing. I have no problems with English, nice people and that. But I can't forget what that Bast#&rd Thatcher done to Scotland back in the 80s/90s. That women hated us, without a doubt. She shut everything she could, ... Anyway no harm to the queen, she's done nothing to harm me. But she's done nothing to help me either. I just celebrate anything with that flag in it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All these folk celebrating a family that paid to keep a beast out the jail need heads looked at "

Same could be said for religions that hide members in different countries, sports teams that turn a blind eye etc there’s evil everywhere but you can’t tar everyone with the same brush.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Personal I don't believe a German family should rule over Britain but I bare the queen no ill will

Just out of curiosity and in general terms, when does an immigrant family actually become "British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish"?

Because if we all look back in our family trees I'm sure 99.995+% of us will find "immigrant" blood somewhere.

Or is this a special case?

Would you be happy if someone with an African or heritage became prime minister or first minister?

Gotta love our nationalist English patriots who hate Muslims. Yet fly the st George Cross not realising st George was a Syrian immigrant.

Or Robert D'Bruce was an Anglo Norman."
I wouldn't know I'm 100% Scottish/Irish/pikey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Growing up a jubilee was always a frozen drink it a wee platic container

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Growing up a jubilee was always a frozen drink it a wee platic container

The best kind

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