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Re: Police to investigate Prince Charles' charity over honours
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Bloody hell, ianch, when we’re you ever get suppressed by the Royal Family?
You talk nonsense. The monarchy is benign as far as the general population is concerned, but it is very beneficial to us all in smoothing relations with countries who may have issues with the government of the day and is constitutionally responsible for our Armed Forces, who can be ordered to bring the government to heel if it exceeds its authority.
It is a delicate balance and we interfere with it at our peril.
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Every society has its upper, privileged tier. It was ever thus, even with Soviet Russia. It is the same with Communist China. It’s there because it works.
It tends to be those who fail to achieve who tend to revolt against the system. They would do better if they just tried harder. This is not Victorian times. Everyone has opportunity. At least in this country.
Be careful what you wish for.
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Yes, why can’t they do as well as someone whose parents could send them to private schools, then used connections to get them into Oxbridge/Durham/Exeter/Russell Group Unis, then the same connections/influence to launch/progress their careers - if only if they had tried harder, they could have had these parents… 
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