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In the odd Brit-Zimbabwe dynamic, this helps Mugabe's political situation. True. Yet I believe he relished the title, or why accept it in the first place. Irish cannot accept title. I understand that the centre of this 'dispute' is the money promised by the Brits at Lancaster House to buy off enough of the white farms to sort out the 'patriots'. The Brits insisted that they pay the whites directly, probable for very good reason. Mugabe insisted that he would. The up shot was that no money was paid! I would have though that as important a detail as that should have been in the peace agreement. The Brits had too much experience not to see the result coming. Yet Mugabe was no slouch and may have had his own motives for 'forgetting' to include this detail. Anyway, it's just plain Bobby Mugabe now. Mugabe building a palace with 30 bedrooms set in 44 acres of landscaped gardens. Jewels drip from crystal chandeliers amid marble columns and velvet drapes. The front of the building looks like the White House while the inside recalls the worst excesses of the Palace of VersaillesThis is just disgusting. He should have been impeached as soon as he did this for heaven's sake. I can't even look at the pictures. Irish cannot accept title.Why can't the Irish accept title? Republicans. All men are equal, remember. There have been 2 that have but they now live and work in England. Still it must be cleared by the IRISH government so that they retain their VERY valuable Irish citizenship. Others like Bono receive any handout in Ireland from the British ambassador and not from the Queen directly. There's a very good chance she'll be in the South next year. We're bring her over on behalf of her family to forgive her all their sins of the past. No, we're bring her to persuade her to hand over to Charles and retire to the West. Na, she is coming but we never ask a guest to bring more than themselves. Unless they're a rich Yank. Ha ha If you hear us calling an I... Title must mean more there then. It doesn't really mean anything here, it's more pomp then anything else. jmjoness - we too have no titles in this nation - we can thank the founding fathers for this egalitarian move. km, I meant titles from Britain. Of course they don't use that title while they're here (actually I wonder if they can use it even in Britain?). too many people get titles when they don't deserve or have done anything to warrent them! It's all political! Mugabe is obviously, like many career leaders, starting to believe his own hype about how important he is to his nation. Since he is no longer a British Knight, I guess he'll have to declare himself divine or something. Since he is no longer a British Knight, I guess he'll have to declare himself divine or something.A British Knight becomes an African Dawn? And it might dawn on him that his time is over. "If you hear us calling an Irishman 'Sir' well we're taking the piss out of him, as we given to say." Unless we're looking paid. After that, anyone's game. silvanaraihane, you Canadians should dump the royal family! They should burn that place down. Screw titles! They are meaningless. Its not that were better here is the US. We give out awards to our children... for being last. Burning the place down may be a bit extreme (the queen has had enough of burning palaces anyway I'm sure). But that medieval institution (royalty) is sure outdated. But we in the States have virtual royalty - Kennedys, Bushs, Clintons, not to mention all that Hollywood crap. Patronage, the hereditary principle and the monarchy: it's about time we got rid of the lot. To tar or to feather...that is the question. Mugabe? Copy that! I'll take the light and set him on fire... |
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