# Why not build a new British royal yacht?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-build-a-new-british-royal-yacht/318479>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 24, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-build-a-new-british-royal-yacht/318479 "2005-08-24T20:09:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-build-a-new-british-royal-yacht/318479/21 "2005-08-31T18:49:57Z")

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> [@William V.](#):
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> What was the “incident with Black Rod”?

[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3340355/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3340355/)

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk\_politics/2042294.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2042294.stm)

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-build-a-new-british-royal-yacht/318479/22 "2005-08-31T18:55:40Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> Because having one celebration for each would have given the Queen two sessions in the limelight. Tony Blair does not like anyone else in the limelight.

Oh stop it, you’re embarassing yourself. Why wouldn’t Blair have gone ahead with two celebrations, and dominated both of them? Why wouldn’t he have just kept the royals out of it? Why were most celelbrations nothing to do with the government anyway (in both 1945 and 2005), and simply organised by independent groups of people?

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> You obviously don’t recall the Silver Jubilee celebrations.

No. Half the population don’t.

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> Compared with that, the Golden Jubilee celebrations were a damp squib.

So? That proves nothing about the modern Labour party, and everything about Britain as a whole.

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> I disagree. The front men (Blair et al) pay lip-service to socialism, but they’re backed by dyed-in-the-wool socialists.

Brilliant. Tell me about the moon landings, I’m dying to hear.

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