My God, have I rattled M the GM's cage! All I said was that the prospect of another royal wedding makes me want to throw up. That is perfectly true, but not half as much as the sycophantic ramblings of some of the monachy's supporters do.

The sad part of all this is that I have yet to find anybody anywhere on the planet who can give me a single sensible reason for retaining such an irrational institution. And I'm not counting arguments along the lines of "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Actually it's the rest of us who are broke, partly through the policies of her majesty's loyal government, but partly also through having to finance the monarchy.

Oh sorry I forgot. There is one valid reason for the monarchy's continued existence. It keeps the plebs in their place. And as long as the plebs are kept in place, they are denied the ability to question the monarchy.

BTW 1. This afternoon, on my way back from the carolling in the Royal Hotel in Dungworth (no, the irony of that one was not lost on me either), I listened to Radio 4's File on Four. It was about declining standards in care homes, and the miserable condition that some of our old folk are kept in, because the government is so strapped for cash that they can no longer afford a proper system of social care inspection. Grand ennit. These are people, most of whom came through the privations and hardships of the second world war, thereby saving us from fascism, and we cannot afford to keep them in decent comfortable living conditions. Yet we can spend millions on such an outdated useless institution.

BTW 2. I sang a couple of anti-monarchist songs at my local folk club the other night, and quoted that bit about "piss off U Big Booby". I don't think the audience has stopped laughing yet.