Should these free mugs be given?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ary-school-pupil.html

There are some miserable individuals around, begrudging a mere £2.90 on every school child, on something that they can treasure for the rest of their lives.

In harder times than these, free commemorative mugs have always been given out to school children, The Coronation of King Edward VII, George V's Silver Jubilee, an Edward VIII mug, coronation of King George VI, and for the coronation of Elizabeth II, to name just a few.

[anotheoldgit]

/// If someone wants to remember the leeching Royals then they should buy it themselves. ///

/// For Funks Sake wake up Victoria is no more. ///

/// Diamond Jubilee doesn't mean we all have to go around celebrating the 1950's ///

Oh dear am I thankful I am not a miserable, left-wing, republican.

There will be no street parties or dancing in the streets for you lot then?

I bet you all are the life and soul at a party, providing it's the communist party, of course.

[Gromit]

One for your scrapbook AOG

http://i.dailymail.co...005DC-414_468x391.jpg

[FredPuli43]

That the council is spending or wasting money elsewhere so they should be able to spend money on this, is not your best point , aog, if I may say so. Thirty grand or thirty pence, it has to be justified.
And it's not justified locally. It wouldn't be justified nationally, and the current government is not adopting this, now outmoded, practice. If people do want a mug, let them buy it from one of the companies who sell souvenirs.

[starone]

I loved my Silver Jubilee mug and my coronation mug' I think they were full of chocolates which I immediately ate. Probably thought more of the choccies than the mugs, because I didn't really understand the significance of the gift.

[Mick-Talbot]

I bet the kids will be chuffed to bits, bless em.

[Baldric]

If the kids want a mug, or the parents want the kid to have a mug, then the parents should put their hands in THEIR pockets to pay for it, it's not up to the rest of us to subsidise others children.

[China Doll]

I don't think I'd be overly impressed with this at any age. Chances are it'll be broken in a years time. What a stupid thing to spend tax payer money on; it's not like there will be a shortage of souveniers for anyone to buy.

[spudqueen]

Interestingly I have a Queen Victoria diamond jubilee plate which my Gran was given when she was at primary school.

[starone]

In my youth, if we had to pay for them there would have been very few sold as we had no money to spend on such fripperies. It was the thirties and the depression was even worse than now, since there were no Social Security payments.

[maggiebee]

Fraid I'm a bit of a bah humbug when it comes to this sort of thing. Council's are stretched as it is and I feel a mug is totally unnecessary. If you want one, just go out and buy one.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// One for your scrapbook AOG ///

Doesn't quite work Gromit, that was a WW2 photo, and at that time your mate Stalin, was one of the 'Big Three' i.e. Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin.

Been much better to post this one.

http://i.dailymail.co...004B0-102_468x345.jpg

or maybe

http://timesonline.ty...14e8b3fee6b970d-800wi

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// it's not up to the rest of us to subsidise others children. ///

That is a gem, don't you realise that we are doing that already?
Or at least some of us are.

And it works out much more than a paltry £2.90 per child.

[Mick-Talbot]

Tory councillor "Richard Wilson", dismissed those against the plan, saying dissenting voices against the mugs were 'waffle'



" I don't believe it"

[Baldric]

aog, of course I realise we are doing that already, and I am one of the ones contributing to it for your information, I had you down as a retiree, taking his entitlement, rather than giving.

[DTCwordfan]

Gromit, as to your scrapbook photos, I didn't know AOG was that good looking.

[DTCwordfan]

And AOG as to your snappies, that Gromit bore such a likeness to some tin-pot friend of Tony Blair's. Can't remember who it is.....

[Baldric]

aog, many thanks for your swift and erudite response^^^^^^^^reported as offensive.