Babies are wonderful things - another one, anywhere, and hope springs up even in my old, beleaguered psyche. I believe birth is nature cocking a snook at death. Wonderful.
Catherine Middleton and William are having another baby. I am glad for them. No doubt William will donate the entire privy purse coming to that baby, to Centrepoint.
However, when I see the obligatory simpering of the newscaster announcing this news, I feel like throwing something at the TV screen. Lots of women have babies all over the world, many have extreme 'sickness'. Haven't they noticed?
Recently we have had royal overload on TV. Diana and the princes and ... What is brewing? I wonder.
The numbers of the homeless in this whole happy realm of ours climbs by the minute all over the cities, and now the smaller towns up north as well.
As an old woman, I having a sneaking admiration for the queen. Her persistence and obstinate ideas about duty and loyalty. But I keep hoping that soon, when her reign comes to an end, the country will give the Royals a pension for two generations or so, and quietly forget them. It worked in India - all those Maharajas and ranis have disappeared into politics, Hospitality business (all those big palaces are useful after all.) or simply faded away.
We cannot feed our people:
The food banks are doing brisk work, filling up the hampers. Mothers eat less to keep the children fed. School-meals are threatened by the Conservative government.
All the tax-payers' resources should go towards housing and feeding our folks, not propping up the monarchy.
And then - there is not enough money for the police, the NHS, schools, prisons. I don't need to spell this out.
I am a republican and don't believe in monarchy anyway. But when things are so dire for many in this country, for Heavan's Sake!
Catherine Middleton and William are having another baby. I am glad for them. No doubt William will donate the entire privy purse coming to that baby, to Centrepoint.
However, when I see the obligatory simpering of the newscaster announcing this news, I feel like throwing something at the TV screen. Lots of women have babies all over the world, many have extreme 'sickness'. Haven't they noticed?
Recently we have had royal overload on TV. Diana and the princes and ... What is brewing? I wonder.
The numbers of the homeless in this whole happy realm of ours climbs by the minute all over the cities, and now the smaller towns up north as well.
As an old woman, I having a sneaking admiration for the queen. Her persistence and obstinate ideas about duty and loyalty. But I keep hoping that soon, when her reign comes to an end, the country will give the Royals a pension for two generations or so, and quietly forget them. It worked in India - all those Maharajas and ranis have disappeared into politics, Hospitality business (all those big palaces are useful after all.) or simply faded away.
We cannot feed our people:
The food banks are doing brisk work, filling up the hampers. Mothers eat less to keep the children fed. School-meals are threatened by the Conservative government.
All the tax-payers' resources should go towards housing and feeding our folks, not propping up the monarchy.
And then - there is not enough money for the police, the NHS, schools, prisons. I don't need to spell this out.
I am a republican and don't believe in monarchy anyway. But when things are so dire for many in this country, for Heavan's Sake!
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