From Top Flying Crab to Cabbage Picker supervisor in 10 weeks
 

Thought that little headline would get you here.
One of our many in-lines for the crown has very quickly managed to bin the crabs (how did he achieve this so quickly, when everyone else has to wait 12 months?) and starts an agriculture course for posh people and that, at that there Cambridge big school....


Prince William to become a full-time student on agriculture course | UK news | theguardian.com


Nice work lad = wish I could have got out as quick when I got ****** off with it.

So you believe you should be treated the same as the next-but-one in line to the throne or that his isn't a special case?

So he's moved from working with vegetables to working with vegetables. Doesn't seem much of a role change........

Growbag to cabbage picker. It's another promotion. :ok:

Strange that Prince William should choose to become a Tab rather than studying at the Royal Agricultural College....or rather 'University' at Cirencester - a mere stone's throw from Highgrove.

Although of course, he is the Duke of Cambridge...

Poor William, he is going to have to work 18 to 20 hours a week.

Why - is he joining the Navy?

To be fair to ZH, he did say "work"!!

The artist currently known as Prince has obviously been reading The Walrus and the Carpenter......................

Working hours?
 

Now you've asked for it. After becoming accustomed to RAF Spanish practices, the shock would probably kill him leading to accusations of pre-emptive regicide. :)

Compare and contrast:SSNs currently deploy for up to 10 months and defence watches in surface ships are identical.

... and Curry's are selling electrical goods at 'up to 70% off'. Is that what you mean? Try and get a Mac for £300!

CG

To jocky..
I honestly think he should be treat as exactly the same as any other flyer.Seriously.
Think it was a bad move on his part and the RAFs for letting him off lightly. Remember he volunteered, like we all did in our various little tribes and should have expected his fair share of the rain and the sunshine as it came(including return of service).


In getting a rare place for flying training whose to say he didn't knock off the chances or dreams of some young guy or gal who would have brought a lot more to the RAFs table. I mean, what did he bring in?


Next in line to the throne? Mate don't make me laugh - I was watching the news the other day when they all piled out of church on Christmas Day - I never realised how many of the hatched out spawn there now is - there are millions of them, lined up manoeuvring nicely for a place at the lunch table and I truly don't think at this present time the GB public are that enamoured with any of them. They all look like people er..on the make? (Hate to say that).
When he first went in to the RAF I had a online row with Peter Preston (former editor of the Guardian) about this role and I'm afraid in retrospect Peter was right - his RAF service was a waste of time - the Royal Family should get real jobs like the rest of us do (or don't).
Would have done him better than token time at Valley.


Happy New Year everyone.

Hey Beags I don't understand that 20 hour dig thang either. On ships, I used to wonder if the Navigator or the Captain ever went to bed, poor buggers. Always on the bridge, I mean all the time.
My old Lt Cdr Flying used to be up in Flyco for 14 hours+..long days. For months on end.
Admit it man - service for the royals is just...mostly token. Mostly show. Its PR and in this one, William has got it wrong.

Hopefully, his place at a Cambs Agriculture College is a fully paid-up private course leaving other places open for those that want to do it rather than just fancy doing it.

Or will he be using his forces resettlement allowance to get this Not-City and Guilds qualification?

When he joined the mob I sarcastically forecast that he would be awarded a bravery medal for working on some foggy night. I am disgusted that he wasn't but will settle that I was wrong.

I too feel that his cossetted time in the mob was a waste of someone else's career and that he has given little in the way of a real return of service.

It's amazing how people choose pseudonyms that describe themselves perfectly. I would imagine that hangershuffle would describe somebody mooching around the hanger bitching and moaning about everybody and everything.

Did I say our SSNs deploy for up to 10 months? Sorry, make that 11 months:Just out of interest, how many operational SSNs do you think the RN has these days?

FED - As would 'Rigga' no doubt!

I wonder what Taxi you drive...

To the miserable barstewards here.....
 

How about the rest of his life in public service, pretty fair return, I would have thought? As for cutting short the 'twelve months to get out', do you really believe he is out? William will be wearing uniforms and turning out long after you have started to draw your pension and sloped off to the golf course or pub, or both.

How much money did the Platitude Prince cost us for his training? Isn't the battered and bloodied British taxpayer entitled to get their full return on their investment before the vanishing-hair to the Throne...err sort of...swans off to do things with sheep?
Oh, what am I saying? Who gives a ----.

Time away on a sub means nothing apparently: