If some of you want a campaign to belong to, try getting our MPs to pay something towards their retirement; at the moment, they are the only group, in this nation, that pay nothing towards a pension.

Apart from the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh who need only one house to live in – not four or five – let the rest of the Royals get proper jobs not made up ones, opening bridges and other construction projects and heading up charities, then, perhaps, they will merit our proper respect.

Obviously your loathing is too deeply entrenched for that to happen; if you feel that fighting alongside others in the Falklands and Afghanistan, or flying a rescue helicopter in foul weather to save the lives of lost climbers isn’t a “proper job,” then I lose all respect for you.

With the amount of land that the German…errr English royal family controls in this country Edgar I hardly think that the old girl would really find it necessary to fiddle any accounts.

I suspect you’ve made yourself a target for every Scottish, Welsh and Irish royalist supporter of the British royal family; not generally known, too, is that the returns from Crown land all go to the government, and more than cover (about four times) the “free handouts” she gets, and on which she pays income tax.

Maybe the people with out flags dont believe that one person / family should be considered more important than any other just because they claim some imaginary deity gives them the right.

Or maybe they feel that ostentatious displays are vulgar, and would rather sit quietly at home, thankful for a head of state who puts her people first, and isn’t thinking up ways to fiddle her expenses to fund her retirement.

One report that I read said the aircraft were to have attacked the Panama Canal (lock gates, presumably?)

A change of diet can work wonders.

by extention of your argument would it would be ok if I helped ISI in the assasination of one of the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in UK? .

If he was planning to kill thousands of innocent people, I couldn’t care less.

Or perhaps all my arguments are meaningless because these people were not wanted by a western govt and we all know only other countries are expected to conform to international laws and norms

I think “He started it” serves that argument rather well; go outside international law, and don’t expect much sympathy if somebody else steps outside the law, to put a stop to it.

If you help a foreign intelligence agency, without informing your govt, than you are a foreign agent. No ifs and no buts

He was convicted of conspiring against the state, not of being a foreign agent; how do you “conspire against the state,” when the person involved is (supposedly) an illegal immigrant, and of whom the authorities deny all knowledge? For that charge to stick, he has to have been there with their connivance, and Phantom II has hit the nail right on the head.