Boaty McBoatface is named...

If the ship were lost with all hands I wouldn't want to be be grieving parent who had to say "I lost my son on the Boaty McBoatface".

No sensible person wanted that name. I just think they could have used their imagination a bit, instead of pandering to the masses.

By the same token, do you think if Brexit gets a 'yes' next month it will turn into a 'no' because the Prime Minister decides it's not a good result?

I cant help but think that this issue is going to run and run.

It symbolises the lack of democracy in this country. The "little" people cannot even be allowed to name a boat. "They" chose not even to take the 2nd or 3rd names.

How far down are "ordinary" people nowadays?

No way could they have named a boat of that standing with a silly Tellytubbies type of name.

We've had this argument before.

"Ordinary people" don't always take things seriously. And some of them are dickheads prats.

I think it was always meant as a bit of fun, tongue in cheek. Surely there's no need to go on about a lack of democracy, get a grip peeps!

jingl

Arriving late to the party, as it were..... In my humble opinion, the " Sir David Attenborough" is an appropriate name for this steel explorer. However; I have yet to opine that one of the newest Navy battleship currently being built has a name that puts fear, or otherwise, into any adversary of this Country.