Palace: Prince William's wife Kate in labor

[Hauldren Collider]

Actually he's a pretty chilled guy. I don't like the homeopathy crap, but in the grand scheme of things it's far outweighed by the huge good he's done for young people and environmental causes.

what

[kentonio]

That would explain why you're not actually conservative.

That makes perfect sense, being from the northeast of America obviously also means that you're a flaming liberal.

[Hauldren Collider]

I've got it. They should take a leaf out of Kanye's book and name him North West. It's perfect.

[kentonio]

what

Would you like to phrase that in the form of a question?

[Wezil]

Go ahead and tell him the good stuff. Fair is fair and I'm sure as hell not going to do it.

[Krill]

I've got it. They should take a leaf out of Kanye's book and name him North West. It's perfect.

No, they should name him New South, or Save the.

[kentonio]

The Prince's Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom founded in 1976 by Charles, Prince of Wales to help young people. They run a range of training programmes, provide mentoring support and offer financial grants to build the confidence and motivation of disadvantaged young people. Each year they work with 40,000 young people, with around 80% moving on to Employment, Education, Training or Volunteering.

Target groups

The Prince's Trust aims to work with young people from four priority target groups. These are the long-term unemployed, people who have been in trouble with the law, people who are in difficulty at school, and people who have been in care. These young people are considered by the Prince's Trust as being "disadvantaged". A small number of people who are employed also go on some Prince’s Trust courses. Known as the employed participants scheme, it is used as a learning and development opportunity (to develop the employee's skills), as additional support to the programme's young people (the employed participants act as additional mentors or support to young people) and as a fundraising initiative (as the employer pays a training fee for their staff member to attend).

Enterprise programme

The Enterprise Programme is the programme for which the Prince’s Trust is best known and it helps young people start a business. Young people can benefit from the program if they are aged 18 to 30, are unemployed or working less than 16 hours a week. If they are in an unsatisfying low paid job they will need to become long term unemployed before they can be helped.

In 2007/8, 2,536 young people were helped to begin trading, in addition to support being provided to 6,423 young people already running businesses. 76% of Trust-supported businesses are still trading after one year and 59% after two years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince%27s_Trust

Funny the things these spoilt princes get upto, isn't it..

[Hauldren Collider]

We have to pay these people millions of dollars in government money so they can go on uncontroversial charitable spending sprees with taxpayer money and demonstrate no leadership whatsoever!

[kentonio]

We have to pay these people millions of dollars in government money so they can go on uncontroversial charitable spending sprees with taxpayer money and demonstrate no leadership whatsoever!

Err, what?

[regexcellent]

seriously the royals have one job, public relations, is it so ****ing hard to a) not cheat on your wife, b) not call yourself a tampon, c) not get into trouble...

These are things ordinary people do all day every day all while having much much more asked of them than to be publicly funded celebrities.

[Hauldren Collider]

seriously the royals have one job, public relations, is it so ****ing hard to a) not cheat on your wife, b) not call yourself a tampon, c) not get into trouble...

These are things ordinary people do all day every day all while having much much more asked of them than to be publicly funded celebrities.

Don't judge them. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to grow up as the richest welfare bum on the planet.

[regexcellent]

check your poor privelege

How long will it be until the Royal Family is supporting itself by starring in ****ty cable TV reality shows? Can't come soon enough.

[Guynemer]

If having a few whacky ideas makes someone a moron, then we should probably just write off half the world now.

I see you are finally catching on.

[Uncle Sparky]

They still haven't mentioned his race. He could still be named Martin Luther, King.

[Elok]

Seriously, the Royals do have a certain warped function. Most human beings--perhaps, deep down inside, all of them--have a certain desire to bow and scrape before authority. At times, Americans have shown a disastrous tendency to direct this impulse towards the office of the president. The Brits don't have to worry about that, because they've directed all the overbearing pomp of power towards a perfectly harmless batch of figureheads. The PM who does all the actual work gets (AFAICT from this side of the pond) little or no glory. What's better, the Royals who do get the glory get such a ridiculous amount of it, while acting in a manner Billy Carter would find vulgar, that it's an object lesson to the British public on the folly of idolizing any creature so broken and morally stunted as a human being. Sort of like the whispering slave in the Roman triumph car; you might as well dress up a mule in ermine robes.

Now, a lot of us miss out on the joke, especially over here where we don't get as much of the sordid news. But even if we adore a bunch of inbred historical relics, that's much, much safer than giving our hearts to a general or a politician.