Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace

[oldironside]

"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.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Sounds like a right royal benefit scrounger

When will George Osborne be on to her?

[non sociopath skin]

2. About time some of those kids of hers got bloody jobs!

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

The Skin

[TalkingDog]

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.

[TalkingDog]

4. I'm posting in GD....deserving of populist outrage. n/t

[Hopeless Romantic]

5. silly old cow

[oldironside]

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