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Nice cartoon, Marf!
Unsuccessful royal heirs? George I was 81st in line to the throne when he became king, so there were a few there.
Princess Charlotte of Wales was the only daughter of George IV, but died before he came to the throne.
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The other 80 were excluded by the Act of Succession so do not count and Princess Charlotte was only ever second in line heir presumptive.
Clue to jog us along :
Of the four first in line heirs presumptives not to succeed two are connected as one was supplanted by the other who was then themself supplanted very shortly afterwards.
LOL!
They've had their 'collectors edition' pullout sections ready to print for days and they're going to go hard on them while they can because after the initial frenzy dies down they will be getting a few officially sanctioned photos and info and nothing else.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2013/jul/17/fifth-estate-trailer-benedict-cumberbatch-julian-assange-wikileaks
Going out for a walk because I can't take it anymore. It's a baby.
I think William died in infancy and young Henry was a bit of a rebel.
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http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/07/miliband-announces-special-conference-approve-labour-trade-union-reforms
"A One Nation Labour Party for all the people of Britain, not just a few at the top. We’re going to build a new way of doing politics. We want to open up our policy-making, clean up the lobbying industry and take the big money out of politics. And we want to let people back in. So I want all Labour party members, supporters, trade union members involved in this dialogue, leading up the Special Conference this spring to agree change."
It's being strongly hinted on R4 that the NannyCam posturing on the internet could encompass violence and gambling as well in it's net.
It happens already. Vodafone adult content filter blocks you from checking what the lottery numbers were. PB is a definite no-no.
I loved this bit:
All of our country’s history shows that change does not come just from a few people at the top. Change comes when individual people come together to demand it.
.. says Ed Milband, one person at the top coming together with himself to impose change on the party.
Maybe that's part of the plan.
If only they didn't rebel in 1776?!
Well that's a bit of an anti-climax!
By covering this with a blanket the media have shrewdly made themselves the story. All have items on 'everybody else goes bonkers ' (whilst we do it ourselves)..
I think the Tudors might have ended up ruling, bar stewardry or not. If you remember, Henry VII left the last Plantagenet buried under a car park.
All I get is a repetitive "It's classed as a gambling site"
Have you noticed that it only ever seems to trigger after 8pm when customer services is closed?
Multiculturalism?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10192578/Religion-told-to-halt-weddings-over-gay-rights.html
Bet365 cut NO from 2/9 to 1/7. Best price now 1/6 (PP & SJ).
The arrangement was so spectacularly unsuccessful, it seems not to have been tried again.
Edit - Chris Mason tweets: "Ed Miliband acknowledges the changes were 'provoked by some of the problems we had.'
However I have to advise PBers that having had a pregnant pause the list has not contracted but has borne further candidates !!
Here's another :
Edward of Westminster Prince of Wales, son of Henry VI, died at the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.
Bows gracefully....but as I don't quite understand how the political levy translates into funding I'm steering well clear of that argument. Will be interesting to see what Miliband proposes...it will certainly be positive, but if only he had taken the inititaive on his own volition, not seen to be reacting.
Now I haven't asked you this before...and putting our various wagers aside...what do you currently believe the 2015 election result will be?
Like everyone who isn't a journalist I agree the saturation coverage is ridiculous.
However, I wonder if this is just part of the 24 hour news culture (I use the term loosely). They cut away from interviewing a victim of torture to see the English football team coach arrive in Berlin, they bring us 'breaking news' often of an entirely trivial nature, they seem to confuse activity with achievement (as Sir Humphrey once almost said of politicians). News is dumbed down as well, ironic given they could actually fill the time with more intelligent and detailed reports.
I'm not that keen on the 'banter' between newsreaders either. Maybe I'd be a chirpy bugger if I got paid a six figure salary for sitting on a chair reading an autocue, though.
Let's sort the double out.
When Queen Victoria succeeded in 1837 the heir presumptive was her uncle the Duke of Cumberland. He was supplanted when Princess Victoria was born in 1840 and she was supplanted when her brother Prince Edward was born the following year.
I can access PB on Vodafone, no problem.
Still fully expecting an Ed Miliband Gov't though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202
Henry the Young King is definitely an anomaly, he was crowned in his lifetime but appears not to be recognised as we don't generally do co-monarchs. Philip of Spain was recognised as King at the time but no-one thinks of him now as our only Hapsburg monarch.
The effect of the arrival of Prince Edward I can understand.
Mind, as a an egalitarian and a republican (ignore the pseudonym, it's jealousy) ) it all seems a something or other mess to me.
In the first minute Davey amused me. "The vast majority of climate change scientists agree climate change is happening."
Fascinating. I suppose most homeopaths believe in homeopathy too, and astrologers in astrology.
The consensus argument gets on my wick. It's science, not democracy. Popularity of a theory is irrelevant to whether it's correct (or close to being correct) or not.
Is this filter constantly on? With no opt-in or opt-out or box to untick somewhere? An unstoppable part of the contract? If so, why don't people vote with their feet (and wallets?)
Edit: *To be pedantic I did many years ago when at University in the UK but back then mobiles were bricks.
"Am in the US and the coverage is jaw-droppingly enthusiastic. They are bubbling over with excitement (watching NBC's Today).
Going out for a walk because I can't take it anymore. It's a baby. "
Charles: Silly people are just as thick on the ground in the US as in the UK. But they can allow
full scope to their silliness, for they don't carry any responsibility for the "Royal Family" , legal
or financial. If it's any consolation, it probably implies affection for Brits and their funny ways.
Personally, I think it's wicked what we do to these poor kids. They ought to have the same rights as the rest of us to find their level.
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Yes, you can opt out. However this can only be done by a human in customer services.
Sometimes it has a brain fart and defaults to back on. This only seems to happen to me once customer services has closed at 8pm.
The free O2 wifi in my local also has the same problem but it only happens occasionally.
This is no longer the thin end of the wedge. We've already had woman "marrying" a bridge so the fox is running for this fun jaunt on the imposed-equality bandwagon.
Level pegging?
Had to share this with you!
Mum just shouted at me for reading PB.com defending the monarchy at the dinner table!
I paraphrase here, as she was shouting at me in the vernacular, but roughly translated, she told me to go and ask HMQ to give me a job wiping her ARSE! LOL!!!
Sunil is 37!
Hence the present Queen succeeded her father rather than George VI's next in line brother the late Duke of Gloucester.
Anyone is free to try to challenge or overturn aspects of any statute but the fact is the protections for religions in the Marriage (SAme Sex Couples) Act are iron-clad and they should do us all a favour by giving the moaning about it a rest.
Thank you. Understand and accept.
When can I next vote for the head of state?
Good cartoon, but not as funny as reading Neil, Nick P, Tim and others taking flailing in the dark PB Tories by the hand and walking them gently through Labour / union issues on the last thread...
The only thing about it that matters (and then not much) is whether it shifts or reinforces the narrative on Miliband - and on that, what really matters is the internal response to his announcement today...
Meanwhile, it's still hot & the royal baby is due....
Have a think why the theory that, say, the Earth is flat is not particularly "popular" in the science community.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/lets-do-a-thing/
Some of you may even want to contribute!
It takes one person or fact to prove a scientific theory wrong. It used to be the majority view that the Earth was at the centre of the universe.
As for flat Earth - that's a rather cheap insult. Besides which, the Ancient Greeks, clever chaps that they were, reasoned the Earth was not flat (you see a ship's sails before its hull on the horizon).