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Old 19-11-2016, 00:36   #30
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Re: Buckingham Palace to get £369million modernisation works

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Yeah, great idea. Move the entire legislature and everything required to support it to ... where, exactly? An abandoned office in Milton Keynes? And at what cost?

And while we're busy showing the world how much contempt we have for our own legislature and head of state, while we're putting up visiting Kings and Presidents in random hotels and introducing ambassadors to the Queen over curly sandwiches at the Queen Vic, will we spare a thought for the other nations of the world, and perhaps wonder what conclusions they'll reach about us, if we hold ourselves in such contempt?

Some people in this world know the price of everything and the value of nothing
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... yes and some folks were just born idiots.
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