“The Philippines must be half empty, you’re all here running the NHS”

He is such a Cad eh...He certainly comes out with some good ones.

And from GMA News.....

"The Duke of Edinburgh has told a Filipino nurse that her country must be "half empty" because so many of her compatriots work for the NHS.

The 91-year-old joked with staff during a visit to Luton and Dunstable Hospital, where he unveiled a £5.5million cardiac center.

Describing himself as being in a "jovial" mood, he said he was the "world's most experienced curtain puller" and asked when the hospital would be getting a helipad to save him the journey by car.

He then told one of the nurses: "The Philippines must be half empty - you're all here running the NHS." She laughed in response."


http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/stor...uke-of-edinburgh-jokes-phl-must-be-half-empty



"Prince Philip is renowned for his controversial gaffes. During a state visit to China in 1986, he told British students that they would become "slitty-eyed" if they stayed there."

"In 1994 he caused offence after asking a resident on the Cayman Islands: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?""

It's almost one of his classics.
Rather complimentary in a way.

I watched a TV documentary about him not too long ago. Found it fascinating. Also found that I really liked the guy much more than I thought I did.

Luckily he didn't mention any other nationality and supermarket car washes otherwise he'd have been in trouble again

Prince Philip nurse joke 'unfair', say Filipinos


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21529396

Hmmm... I wonder if Ms Heels-and-Handbags from the Home Office may seize on the Prince's quip, realise she can reduce the immigration figures by terminating Filipino nurses' contracts and send them all back home. After all, their places can be filled by Latvians and others from the predominately non-English speaking EU.The Prince may be dismissed by some as a privileged grumpy old man but we need his political incorrectness as a stark reminder of the realities of life.

If these are the kind of things he says in public I wonder what he says in private?

My feeling is that we all make similar gaffes from time to time that may cause us to have misgivings (if not regrets)
In private, among like minded people we may say things that perhaps we wouldn't in more public gatherings
The difference of course is that we don't have the world's media waiting with bated breath to record ours.

I don't think he means to offend.

I`m absolutely sure that he doesn`t.
It actually annoys me that some people think that he does in this new P/C age.

Im glad that this subject has come up..Perhaps we can just have a brief recollection of some of his most famous gaffes...Before its too late or completely forgotten!!

During a state visit to China in 1986, he famously told a group of British students: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".

Speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, in 1995 he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"

On asking a female Sea Cadet what she did for a living, and being told that she worked in a nightclub (as a barmaid), the Duke asked “Is it a strip club?” Observing her surprise he dismissed the suggestion saying that it was “probably too cold for that anyway” (2010).

On meeting an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002, he asked: “Still throwing spears?” (Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002)

During the 1981 recession he mused: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

On seeing an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh, he asked: "It looks as if it was fitted by an Indian."

After accepting a conservation award in Thailand, he observed: ..
"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world."

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" he asked residents of the Cayman Islands.

He told a 1986 meeting of the World Wildlife Fund: "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."

Thank you Duke of Edinburgh!!
One day your humour and wit will be sorely missed..
By me anyway at least!

If I was a British nurse with huge first world tuition fees to pay after my training, I would be mighty pissed off about Filipina nurses trained for a small amount. They are trained in backwards hospitals and in village "universities" yet are treated as equals . I would be more pissed off that they are getting the same pay as me, IN MY OWN COUNTRY !

Why don't foreign, especially third world, nurses get paid much much less ? Filipina nurses would still think it was Xmas every day if they received half their salary, I'm sure. Do the managers have any clue about budgets and negotiating ? They should put British first for a change in Britain, like Filipinos do in their country.

Are you a white supremacist? You do know that slavery has been abolished, right? In fact it was outlawed, in the UK, 186 years ago, but maybe you rue that day in July 1836 when the House of Commons passed the relevant legislation.

Filipinos are not second or third class citizens, put on this earth to pander to the likes of you and to be paid a pittance. No doubt you'd like them to bow and tug their forelocks in gratitude as you chuck a few groats at them.

Why do you have a Filipino partner when you're clearly racist? Or were you looking for a servant "with benefits"?

Have you ever heard of equality?? Why shouldn’t they get paid the same as British nurses for doing the same job, although the difference is they can’t go home to family at the end of each shift like most British nurses. On the plus side they do speak the English language unlike some nurses from European countries.
You really come across as anti Filipino in a lot of your posts. Guess anything about the Filipino people is not up to your standards.

Utter bollox