Police investigate costume theft.

[Charles Bannerman]

Metropolitan Police are investigating the theft of a large quantity of costumes from the Battersea HQ of the Ruritanian Comic Light Opera Company in advance of their stage production of Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator".

The theives' haul includes a number of uniforms which the RCLOC say are an essential part of their show which is due to open next week.

"We would like to interview a Philip Battenberg and a Charles Windsor whom we believe to be father and son and who were last seen heading down the Thames on a barge wearing some of the costumes and in the company of several Corgis and two elderly ladies - one with a flying saucer sticking out of her head and the other wearing a bucket," said the Met's Depute Commissioner P C Plodd. "The suspects are believed to be foreign EU nationals who have been receiving publicly funded benefits and living rent free in state owned accommodation in this country for several years. Battenburg is believed to be of Greek origin but is reluctant to return home for financial reasons."

You do have to have a laugh though, don't you!? What are these people like and who do they think they are prancing about in these ridiculous costumes dripping with gongs, baubles and titles they've dished out to each other for fun?

I will be really glad when this weekend of grovelling sycophancy and going ballistic about six decades of top dollar freeloading off the public purse is over!

Here's one final thought. Now that the Divine Right of Kings has long since been binned WHAT IF just ONE of them over the years happened to be the son or daughter, not of the previous king, but of the footman or the butler?

It just needs to happen ONCE - and this lot put it about a whole lot better than most.

So where would that then leave their "line of succession" on which the whole thing totally depends?

Edited June 3, 2012 by Charles Bannerman

[buckett]

What's up - you been overlooked for that MBE again??

I'll lend you mine if you like!

[old caley girl]

Aw she's an old lady Charles leave her alone lol

[Heilandee]

Ach, 69p well spent http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8124022.stm

[Alex MacLeod]

Ach, 69p well spent http://news.bbc.co.u.../uk/8124022.stm

That was the cost in 09. Probably double that now.

[Heilandee]

Ach, 69p well spent http://news.bbc.co.u.../uk/8124022.stm

That was the cost in 09. Probably double that now.

On the contrary Alex,thrifty Lizzie is saving us a few bob in these austere times. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cost-of-monarchy-down-by-18m-2306509.html

[Alex MacLeod]

Ach, 69p well spent http://news.bbc.co.u.../uk/8124022.stm

That was the cost in 09. Probably double that now.

On the contrary Alex,thrifty Lizzie is saving us a few bob in these austere times. http://www.independe...8m-2306509.html

Thats cos she kept a few bob aside for her big party on the river this year.