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In reply to the discussion: The "NO's" have it...MPs debate refusing Donald Trump a state visit to Britain [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)51. Hell, they ought to let him meet Prince Phillip....
I can hear him now.....
"You Caaaaahn't Be President....you're MUCH TOO FET!!!!"
When Phillip delivers a gaffe, he does it using the Queen's English, at least.....
Samples: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-philip/9883276/Duke-of-Edinburghs-best-gaffes.html
1967
When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union: "I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family."
1969
The Duke said to Tom Jones after his Royal Variety Performance: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?".
He later added: "It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs."
On the Royal Family's finances: "We go into the red next year. I shall probably have to give up polo."
1976
On a tour of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
1981
During the recession he mused: Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
1984
When accepting a figurine from a woman during a visit to Kenya he asked: "You are a woman aren't you?"
.....
1993
To a British tourist in Hungary in he quipped: "You can't have been here that long you haven't got a pot belly."
To survivors of the Lockerbie bombing he told them: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still drying out Windsor Castle."
1994
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?", he asked an islander in the Cayman Islands.
To a Caribbean rabbit breeder in Anguilla, he said: "Don't feed your rabbits pawpaw fruit it acts as a contraceptive. Then again, it might not work on rabbits."
.....
1999
In Cardiff he told children from the British Deaf Association, who were standing by a Caribbean steel band: "If you're near that music it's no wonder you're deaf".
2000
To guests at the opening reception of a new £18million British Embassy in Berlin: "It's a vast waste of space."
At a Buckingham Palace drinks party, he told group of female Labour MPs: "Ah, so this is feminist corner then."
On being offered fine Italian wines by Giuliano Amato, the former Prime Minister, at a dinner in Rome, he is said to have uttered: "Get me a beer. I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer!"
"People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans."
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The "NO's" have it...MPs debate refusing Donald Trump a state visit to Britain [View all]
Miles Archer
Feb 2017
OP
If he visits, it will be downgraded, not a State Visit, and he won't get to meet the Queen..
HipChick
Feb 2017
#4
They mentioned in the video that State Visit requests originate from a Committee not from Parliament
Miles Archer
Feb 2017
#23
One MP mentioned that Prince Charles probably couldn't be involved in a state visit with Trump
dflprincess
Feb 2017
#115
If/when he visits, Parliament will NOT be in session--thus, he'll be the first leader to NOT address
MADem
Feb 2017
#129
I heard the vote with my own ears on the livestream of the debate.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2017
#14
I believe it was sort of commitee vote -not the entire Parliament. confusing for sure
riversedge
Feb 2017
#79
That's my go to as well ... I have been "nonchalantly" checking my phone during a meeting
etherealtruth
Feb 2017
#35
This isn't dis-inviting him from the U.K. but from addressing Parliament, right?
randome
Feb 2017
#39
"The power of the presidency is enormous but the intellect of the presidency is protozoan"
Maraya1969
Feb 2017
#120
Thank you!!! It is so hard to track info down while working, I appreciate you posting this
etherealtruth
Feb 2017
#48
Many references were made today to the "Greek Chorus" of protesters outside.
Miles Archer
Feb 2017
#57
Thank you. It was clearly just a committee and not all of Parliament,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2017
#101
OK, but it looked like not all of Commons was there, so can they have debates
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2017
#103
and that is why the bbc.com or any other major news outlet is NOT reporting it
still_one
Feb 2017
#95