Prince accuses supermarkets of putting squeeze on farmers

[Classic Jorge]

Meanwhile tenants on his Duchy of Cornwall Estate, which regularly makes £150m profits and gifts Charles dividends of close to £15m a year, have to cope with regular double figure rent increases.

[The Tony]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

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[Darren's Dodgy Denim]

[Mack]

[Classic Jorge]

The hilarious thing about this is that they are insisting that the Duchy isn't even a company and should be treated like a charity.

Abolishing the monarchy and selling off their landholdings could make this country billions for the 'strivers'. This bunch of shirking benefit cheats have had it too good for too long.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

If they stay and continue to pay it's because what he's charging is what the market will bear.

[Mack]

[Classic Jorge]

I mean personally I wouldnt give the f**ker a penny, let alone anything else with his mum on it. But the idea that it's the big nasty supermarkets who are putting the screws on his local serfs is a bit strong. Or, for that matter, that he's standing up for them.

That said, he's the single greatest aid to the republican cause.

[Rich]

[Berni]

Any business that operates on a tenancy is subject to the same potential problem imo. Who the landlord is is - frankly - irrelevant.

I think the man's a bit of a tit, but you surely wouldn't deny that he's right about the supermarkets and their suppliers? Not that I actually care about the suppliers as long as my goods are nice and cheap.

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

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[Classic Jorge]

I also read with interest that the royals have managed to con their way into being able to veto any legislation that affects their business interests. Given their business interests are pretty far ranging - Duchys of Lancaster and Cornwall, pretty much all of Scotland - it's a pretty serious constitutional oversight.

[Classic Jorge]

Mind you, I met young Owen a few years back and he's a charming bloke.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

He's a smug, unthinking fifth form ****.

[Berni]

politics to seek hypocrisy everywhere.

We're all hypocrites, j. Doesn't invalidate the essential truth of any good points we may make, though.

[Classic Jorge]

It's horrible when people surprise you like that though, I too thought he was going to be a whiny little gob****e and I share a few standpoints with him.

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3775 050&rid=5863&S=210e389036cd2ee00d05da5626d91ddb (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3775050&rid=5863&S=210e389036cd2ee00d05da5626d91ddb)

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

Otherwise the mouthbreathers lap this **** up

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

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[Berni]

obsession with the personal. This is how we've ended up with the short-termist, arse-covering excuse for a political culture we now have. I hope it makes you happy.

The Rev. Martin Luther King used to like banging hookers several at a time. Does that reduce or invalidate the moral weight of what he said or did? If that had been known at the time, would anyone have listened to him?

The point is that hypocrisy is the rule rather than the exception. Only if we learn to overlook it (within reason) can we hope to move on.

[Snin]

and sir C to defend it is ridiculous..the fecker also produces high fat / unhealthy overpriced ****e so for him to moan about supermarkets whislt competing from an unfair tax position whilst producing ****e means of course....




HANGINGS TOO GOOD FOR THE CNUT!

He will of course be agaisnt my wall come the revolution..I will get Rich to suck the princes cock on his knees and go for the one shot one death / one blown off cock scenario to start the ball rolling so to speak

[Snin]

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[Classic Jorge]

Personally, if someone is saying something I'm far more comfortable with it if they actually believe it, rather than them just paying lip service to it.

[Classic Jorge]

Though he thinks people parking in the disabled bays is BANG OUT OF ORDER

[Berni]

that people feel the need to point it out these days.

And do you really believe it's impossible sincerely to believe in something whilst not necessarily living up to that belief? Are you that unacquainted with human nature and its failings?

Show me someone who is not a hypocrite and I'll show you a small-minded, inhuman, bigoted zealot.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, j.

[Classic Jorge]

It's almost like you yourself arent being very consistent with your argument.

I'm with Ingersol on this; 'we need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.'

[Berni]

People just realised we needed someone unattractively single-minded to sort out the mess.

And are you trying to tell me Mrs T wasn't a hypocrite? :hehe: I can point to a number of reasons why she was without having to try. The point is that her hypocrisies weren't germane to the larger point.

And the last thing anyone needs is tedious dullards laying down their lives all over the place. We actually need broad minded, non-dogmatic, clever people who are prepared to be flexible of mind and compromise their ideals for the greater good.

[Classic Jorge]

I dont so much mind people being inconsistent, I just think they should be made to explain their inconsistencies more. If someone is able to admit they were wrong and why they dont believe that anymore then I'm happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[Berni]

Her minor inconsistencies did not matter in the larger context.

The message matters more than the person it's coming from, so why get bogged down in the personality? It's how things get dumbed down.

[Classic Jorge]

Or possibly iteration, but without consistency iteration would be impossible.

[Bergkamp's Brain]