New busts of Queen for Lancashire (From Lancashire Telegraph)

A waste of money.

Who will care in forty, fifty or a hundred years' time? Think of the countless ordinary men and women who have given of their time to the benefit of our county and gone unnoticed. Councillors and other powers that be often have a skewed view of life and forget those who are really important to the wellbeing of the community.

Think of all the money thats been spent on Queen Elizardbeth this year..? Now think of all the cutbacks penny pinching and robbing Peter to pay Paul that most of us in the real world have to do just to get by and put food on the table..Now get back to work where all slaves belong Maam needs feeding some more of your taxes.

JUST A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION. HOW MUCH WILL THIS HAIRBRAINED SCHEME COST US AND OUR CHILDREN FOR INSTALLATION AND ONGOING MAINTENANCE?

Who the hell voted this gang in? You must have been bionkers. Roll on the next county election

I tell you this, it's an insult to everyone of us, hard pressed taxer payers to have this anomaly thrust upon us. The same money would be better spent upon giving a few kids a decent education.
how you sad-sacks of councillors would even deign to accept this on my behalf, deserves nothing but utter contempt.
I will be there, at it's unveiling, with a sign that reads..'Nice bust,morally bankrupt', feel free to enjoin in denying my rights to protest, over this ignominuos outrage to common decency..
And just to make sure that you know it's me, I'll wear my medals of service.
It's utter calumny, which deserves to be destroyed...
How dare you do this? Shame upon you! Not, in my name...

Mere words cannot express my outraged feelings.. Where is my say in this matter? It's my money that you are squandering.
Let's have a vote on it..more that half the town couldn't give a toss for royalty... you are just self serving, for obsequious reasons..
I truly wish that my Mother had taught me to swear, instead of being thus constrained to these words..

I suppose that we, the populace, that put you in office, are going to be denied a naysay in this erection to blatant eructive suction? Will it sail through planning permits and ignore objections?
Tell you what, you unveil it, I'll put an onion on it.. to please the sheep-like voters that you think are just in love with the idea of it...

I do truly hope you are not going to charge us, the people, with the KY jelly, for when a hand is thrust, to make your mouth say, yes, to this..

I truly could swear at this outrageous idea to squander our money..
No mention of costs..
No mention of planning permits..
It's a done deal, as ever, behind closed doors.
Let's see who gets an honour out of this..
you obsequious nonclemture of a human being, without a care nor jot for your fellow human beings within the Palatine of Lancaster.
May God grant you, a long, slow, painful death.. And me, the chance to dance upon your grave..
You are an utter disgrace to all of your fellow men, and those that came before you..

pardon me for asking this, but..
which part of the Windsors, formally known as Co-Hapsburg-Goethe und alleren Witten, has a special connection with this county?
Apart from sucking up a bit of rent from the county palatine..
He's a Greek, she's from German stock, that changed the name suit a war effort..
Remind me again, where does this lot play a part in Lancastrian history, apart from when it suits them?

To state that she has links to this county is a complete fallacy, apart from a legacy..

I'll tell you how patriotic this shameful family is..
Not a one of them has been seen in any of the Olympic events..
Have seen more of the foreign Royals, than those we pay for in the civil list..

As ever, our Royals are sadly lacking in the 'nobless oblige' department..
Now waving on the balcony, as the cyclists go by..
As Wiggens made a valiant attempt to make us a proud nation..
Not a one of them were seen to be cheering us on..

And you want me to accept this bust?
I'd sooner gas axe it, and flog it to a pikey for a pint, for all it means to me.

As I write this, we, Team GB, have 29 medals to our names..
Third to the US and China..
Having given all for the Olympic ideal, yet, on the steps of the inglorious palaces, was there but one Royal, to cheer home the victor?
Even back in that first day, from which the Olympics was first spawned, there was a Royal, to greet that runner from Marathon, who fell and died..
What would it cost our own Royals, to be there, in either splendour or defeat, to show some kind of passion for these great people that give their all, for us, the little people, to show that they, like us, care about our toil and hardship, to be the best that we can be, for our place, our land and country.
Have they not a care that, once, as the Bard had it, for want of a nail, the battle was lost? In a land where nails are driven into the very soul of a man, so that he can go to work, to earn his taxed crust. That very tax that keeps them in a lifestyle that is beyond the imagination of any worker.
Do they not listen to voices from history, where their own relatives were put to death, in ignominious circumstance, for being beyond touch of the common man?
It begs the question, do we really need these leeches and their lackeys, sucking from us, the wealth of this country, when children within this county have no breakfast nor monies for a midday meal?
It's a good job I haven't read, Mein Kampf, thoughts of chairman mao, marx or engels.. otherwise there would be a revolution brewing here..

I've no idea what the new world order will be but it has to be better than this sad sack of manure, since it's a change..
Anything you like, as long as it doesn't involve killing, persecuting, belitting or denigrating anyone..
Let's just close the doors to everyone, settle down and sort our own problems out, before posturing on the world stage..
We bring back the death penalty and mean it.. Back to the old rules, 3 clear Sundays, then we top you.
None of this beggaring about for years on appeals, as they do in the US.
I didn't do it, it's not me, when confronted with the evidence will gain you no appeals.
Trials to be publicised, so that any cause celebre can be viewed by all.
None of this 'blow by blow' in the Guardian newspaper, as in the Train Robbery case.
Jack Mills, in my book, died as a result of the robbery and those men should have been hanged.
As should both Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, since they committed their crimes when hanging was still on the Statute books.. the last hanging should have been these two..
Sydney Silvermans' Act of 1965 should have included the punishment of any acts committed before the day of enactment, as a catch-all, instead it had a sunset clause of 5 years... A legal loophole that kept the Moors murderers alive..

Am available for hangings on Mondays, Wednesday and Thursdays..
I sign on on Tuesdays, go on the drink Fridays and Saturdays, church on Sundays..
Could do Fridays if, the Gov't invokes the pint of Rum rule for the executioner..and a bottle of Coke for his mate, and all found..

my mate wants to know if it's all right by you, that we don't hang kiddy fiddlers by the neck?
and use both bungee and baseball bats..

Don't ask me, I'm not Welsh like him..

you must have been watching different TV than I have the Royals have been everywhere!

Wow!
Can't believe the ammount of venom on here just for a 'bust' what about if people behaved like this throughout the years, we would have no nice statues, buildings or parks to enjoy.
Have you ever thought that you handle the queens bust every day of your life and hold it in high regard as it is on every piece of cash you have in your pocket/purse?

woolwothwords said, " . . Not a one of them has been seen in any of the Olympic events..". !!!!! You need to get to Specsavers PDQ, mate !! . . . and don't forget to take your white stick and Labrador with you.