I'm certainly no monarchist and I think you're being a bit cruel here. Your views on the m

onarchy are known and not far out of sync with my own, except I don't hate them personally. The system needs a shakeup, yes, I don't care if they exist as an institution, just as long as they earn their own keep and reduce the size of their estates (and give these to the people, don't let developers build on them either).

With regard to Phil, he strikes me as a bored old man, bemused at the world. Killing animals for for is crap, but again a wider issue that needs tackling, many people are brought up to think it's normal.

Aside from that, I have been unemployed and I reckon,

" "Everyone was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

is genuinely funny, a joke, not a jeer. In fact I think many of his gaffes are just badly worded jokes, it's like he has a really posh version of Turrets Syndrome.

"Stay much longer and you'll go home slitty eyed."

Sorry, I like the Chinese, but I laughed.

Posted By: Ralf Scrampton, Jun 10, 15:12:38