Wings Over Scotland

Rev Stue…. as  Dick Emery would say….
Ooh, you are awful … but I like you!
Luv the cartoon

I always thought that they would hold off on the baby until 2014. now I suspect that Francis Maude is working really hard to try to find a marriage partner for Harry, or one of the ugly sisters, so that that can be arranged at an appropriate moment.
 
Wall to wall union flag waving is assured by the celebrations commemorating the start of the First World War, due to  take place between the end of the Games and the referendum, but it is possible that, with some, this will backfire (on the basis that it will be seen for what it is: you don’t celebrate the beginning of a war), so a back up wedding would be a good plan.
 
Failing that, I suspect that Kate will have to do it all again. Still, serves her right. She wanted to be queen.
 

I said to friends before the pregnancy was announced that there would be a “Royal” baby in 2014.  They thought I was a mad conspiracy theorist (maybe I am) I think that the “Royals” have peaked too early, poor Kate shouldn’t have to lie back and think of England again so soon.

I assume that’s meant to be Kate’s speech bubble? Not the Queen’s, that would be too gross to think about…

That’s okay though, an odd bomb here, a national crisis there, they’ll be sure to figure something out.

After last nights, remember the Olympics, I wouldn’t put anything past the establishment.
Are we seriously going to celebrate 2012 every year now
Its like the Peter Kay sketch, this time last week we were sitting by the pool, this time last month we were still on hols…
Last year we had the Olympics.. Next year it will be baby “Dod’s” first birthday
 
D’you think anybody told them George up here is Dod, which is affa close to Dodi?

37% eh? Wasn’t it just last week that the unionists were claiming that the Yes vote was stuck at 30%?
 
What will be really interesting is when the polls start putting the Yes vote goes above the 40% mark. Am thinking that might be a tipping point.
 

I am very proud of myself that I have managed to avoid most of the crap regarding the royal brat. I don’t even know its name. Now I am worried that someone has mentioned it in the comments and I will find out. 🙁

@JPJ2 To get round the constitutional difficulties of naming Elizabeth as the Second in Scotland, Churchill suggested in Parliament that the highest regnal number from Scottish and English monarchs should always be used:
link to tinyurl.com
If then the Royal Family do follow this as a precedent I think it unlikely that Alexander would be used, as the new King would be styled Alexander IV. I imagine this would upset a fair few English royalists.
Of course, Elizabeth II of Scotland, riles quite a few Scottish royalists too. But since the tail doesn’t wag the dog, I doubt much notice was taken of Scotland’s wishes.

Best cartoon yet, Chris.
 
Now if James Hewitt’s boy can do his royal duty next year..

@The Man In The Jar … It’s all part of Operation Union Jackery. The BBC is full of it: ‘The Great British this’; ‘Britain’s best that’; and we’ll see more and more of it with repeats ad nauseam over the next 12 months. No doubt the supermarkets will play their part with special ‘British’ promotions popping up everywhere, the great ‘British’ deal. The butcher’s apron will become more and more visible in people’s everyday life. I would think that Labour-run councils will start flying the flag over town halls permanently at some point over the coming months.

Great cartoon Chris! The Unionist media will now give over-the-top coverage to Lady Zara’s impending sprog no doubt.

I noticed a trailer on the BBC last night for a new program starting next Saturday. I believe it is called. “I Love My Country” That should be “interesting”.

Brilliant, Chris!
 
It’s one of the travesties of a monarchy that the happiness of a young couple, their wedding, the birth of their baby, is hijacked for political purposes, the unionjackery.
 
William, of course, is über-establishment, the centre of the establishment, whether he likes it or not. Kate is “a commoner” (what an anachronistic designation) but from a wealthy Home Counties family. She’s probably a perfectly nice person, and I’m happy she’s had a healthy baby, but I think she’s had a complete personality bypass. She doesn’t seem an interesting person at all. The greatest achievements of this graduate of St Andrews University are 1) being pretty 2) marrying a Prince 3) having a baby. And she’s held up as a role model!
 
As to the baby prince… To my Finnish ears the name George is just plain ugly. G-o-o-o-o-rg. The Finnish version of the name, Yrjö, is a slang word for vomit. Alexander is great, also very popular in Finland nowadays, Aleksanteri or Aleksi. I doubt the royal baby will be called Alex, though. And Louis reminds the rest of the world of that ultimate autocrat, Louis XIV, the Sun King. I suppose the name was included for Saxe-Coburgh-Gotha/Battenberg family reasons but it sort of highlights the absurdity of hereditary head-of-stateness.
 
Plenty of Finns are interested in the Nordic and UK royals. The pomp and circumstance, the soap opeara is entertaining, especially because we don’t have to pay for it. 😀

As broadcast by BBC Radio Scotland news, at approx 1.03 pm –
 
“…the new royal baby will never be king…”
 
Seriously.
 
On the fucking ‘national news’?!?
 
Of course, you’d need to see the context (which involves Canavan/Yes Scotland/disagreement with Scottish Govt etc etc etc) but that’s the killer line which will be casually picked-up by listeners.
 
Who rubber-stamps this shite? We need someone in Pacific Quay to do the decent thing and give us the names of these people. 
 
Who are they?

Lumi – I just told my dad that his name (and my middle name) means “vomit” in Finnish. He said “oh well, could be worse – I could have a name that sounds like Loony.”
 
😉

This may be of interest for those of you on fb, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=619152334784424&set=a.476557665710559.116346.465022403530752&type=1 it’s an article about the impact of the royal birth from a republican point of view sorry I should really find out how to make them clickable 

So George means Willy in Finnish…?