This week sees the UK visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI at a cost to the taxpayer that is likely to reach ~£15 million. But it seems that the only people who are really bothered are the BBC. Apparently one event at Coventry airport was designed to cater for 200,000 people but this has been scaled down to 50,000 and tickets are reportedly being given away to schoolchildren due to lack of interest. Well, I say tickets; they are officially known as "pilgim passes" - what is that all about FFS? And who would pay £25 to listen to some bloody old fool spouting a load of outdated bollocks with no relevance to modern society.
During his visit the Holy Father is expected to reiterate his homophobia and once again urge true Christians to do some more breeding so we do not get over-run by Muslims and all turn black. This will be great for promoting racial and religious tolerance in our land. He will probably once again denounce condoms as the work of Satan which virtually amounts to genocide when one considers the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa due to unprotected sex. He will no doubt continue to ignore the issue of child abuse in the RC Church and conveniently forget about his membership of the Hitler Youth.
Meanwhile, his entourage are being put up, at taxpayers' expense, in five star hotels costing over £1000 per night and are even being given £150 of our money as daily spending allowances. What the hell is that all about? Do they need to buy Union flags to wave or I LOVE London T-shirts? Whatever happened to the traditional vow of poverty from these holy men?
Is this the greatest rip-off ever by the Vatican, which, lest we forget, is one of the richest states on the planet with untold wealth in its vaults.
But let us return to the BBC. As TV licence fees have soared above inflation the grossly over-paid DG, Mark Thompson, has assigned an estimated 400 staff to live coverage of the visit despite the fact that most events will occur when most honest folks will be at work and the rest of the rabble who probably don't pay licence fees anyway will be watching Jeremy Kyle.
This whole pantomime is the greatest con trick ever perpetrated on the British taxpayer.
with the demographics of Britain changing so considerably over the years id be surprised if the 50,000 turned up, i do wish i was part of his entourage tho i see a nice shopping spree and several new pairs of shoes :-)
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