Debating Chamber - Should we pay for the Pope's visit?

Survey says No BBC News

The cost of the trip to UK taxpayers, previously estimated at Ł8m, could rise to between Ł10m and Ł12m.

Someone remind me, what exactly is he coming for? :huh

Just guessing here, but I imagine you'll end up forking over the cash anyway. Such is our voice these days, eh? "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing..." :cuddle

He coming over to beatify Cardinal Newman wot Asy says writ homoerotic poetry.

No I does think the SUBLs should not pay out of taxes for his trip but they will do because technically he a head of state so must be afforded Protection against the likes of Richard Dawkins. And Peter Tatchell. And lots of other SUBLs who want to tell him he a silly old twit and mendacious Protector of Naughty Priests.

Wergh.

Isn't the Vatican accounted to be Not a Proper State Really? But only a polite fiction invented by Mussolini to placate the RCC????

In which case the RCC could pay for the whole visit themselves (they can probably afford it ten times over out of the petty cash, anyway)

The RCC are apparently paying for much of the direct costs, but the cost of policing the visit will be borne by UK taxpayers. I think we should cancel the visit and use the money saved to keep our cupro-nickel coinage.

I think technically he does count as a head of state, but that is used as an excuse at other times too. I know we must do business sometimes with leaders we do not like, but I see no reason to get out the best cutlery for them. (maybe the sharpest)

The real reason for giving visitors every luxury is so that our politicians get the same treatment when they travel.

It's been said that the security costs will be extremely high because so many people hate what he did and what he stands for.

That should be a clue right there. When inviting a guest for dinner it's best not to include someone who half your family want to burn at the stake instead of paying for him to eat one.

So what they should have done was sell tickets for the Pope concerts and then pay for the people with tickets to fly to Rome to see the Pope at home.

Brilliant, Furbs. We should put you in charge, voted in by acclamation, and you can tell Mr Red Socks to stay at home.

Just heard some upper-class twit on the radio talking like Charles Hawtrey only more camp and, in answer to the question as to why at a time when we are cutting down benefits to the poor and the disabled we are spending Ł22m on a visit from a deluded twerp in a frock and a silly hat, he haughtily replied:

'I think.. when you have the chance of a visit from a man of power... yes, a powerful man... and let me just say...' pauses...'he is powerful before anything else in his Holiness...'

"He is powerful in his holiness". Does this actually mean anything at all?

:bang

What a load of total, utter and complete horse manure.

No disrespect to Clyde, who undoubtedly talks more sense than this duplicitous and condescending cretin.

What a tosser! 'scuse me, this seems to have got me quite vexed for some reason :rolleyes

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