Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace

oldironside

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Fri Sep-24-10 03:29 AM
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Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace

"The Queen asked ministers for a poverty handout to help heat her palaces but was rebuffed because they feared it would be a public relations disaster, documents disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-tried-to-use-state-poverty-fund-to-heat-buckingham-palace-2088179.html

Poverty? She wouldn't know poverty if it bit her on the arse.

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LeftishBrit

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Fri Sep-24-10 06:14 AM
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1. Sounds like a right royal benefit scrounger

When will George Osborne be on to her?

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non sociopath skin

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Fri Sep-24-10 06:27 AM
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2. About time some of those kids of hers got bloody jobs!

Edited on Fri Sep-24-10 06:29 AM by non sociopath skin

Go get 'em, Iain Duncan Smith and Frank Field!

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TalkingDog

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Fri Sep-24-10 09:23 AM
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3. What do the poor need with all that heat?

If they'd just get off their lazy asses and get a job, moving around would keep them warm.

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Fri Sep-24-10 09:24 AM
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4. I'm posting in GD....deserving of populist outrage. n/t

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Hopeless Romantic

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Fri Sep-24-10 01:04 PM
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5. silly old cow

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oldironside

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Fri Sep-24-10 03:15 PM
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6. At last!

Something we can all agree on. Here's a clip that's vaguelly appropriate.

"You know he wanted to shoot the Royal Family, abolish marriage and put everyone who'd been to public school in a chain gang. Yeah, he wuz a idealist, your dad was."
This is what comes from watching Caroline Flint on Question Time. The hormones start swirling and I'm a teenage Trot again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNEWimL7-vw

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