The Sovereigns Christmas Day message goes back many decades and is traditional for the UK and commonwealth media to communicate this to their audience as widely as possible to the Queens subjects.

As with anything TV and Radio stations have the choice whether this is broadcasted or not and also whether we even listen to it at all but it is popular with millions of people though and most media organisations are respectful towards the Royal Family and this was a minority hiccup.

Everything we do these days is examined under a microscope more than ever and there are two sides to every story and how we interpret what each side communicates to the public as in this instance but we all have to be careful as to what is politically correct, acceptable and timings on how to behave even if this does not beach any laws which are made by Royal Approval signed by Her Majesty in the name of the Crown we have to be mindful of our actions and especially in the media how it is portrayed not to offend others.

The Queen should intervene in this instance and refer it to the Press Complaints Authority via her staff to ensure something like this does not occur again and have the matter looked into more thoroughly, I am unaware of anything of this nature occurring previously and it would be good if the Royal Household Press Department could issue a statement on this incident and look at measures to prevent such an occurrence arising in future broadcasts.

The choice of whether to use Mr Binns in future broadcasts is a tricky one, to a certain extent how this is portrayed does not do Mr Binns or the radio station much credibility however like the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand scandal He should have been suspended pending a full investigation, forced to make a written statement and apology on the radio stations website and be given clearer guidelines of what is acceptable and better checks within the station seem more appropriate to prevent this from occurring again on this or other stations.

He should not be sacked but be given a written warning instead and the radio station needs to be mindful they could be subject to unfair dismissal for sacking him despite this issue being of public interest and involving the Monarch.

As I understand it the person in question is a comedian and it poses issues yet again that as the society we live in gets progressively worse guidelines need to be issued somehow about what is and is not acceptable on a number of subjects by those like Mr Binns who attempt to humour us and where we draw the line and it’s a fine line.

What one finds funny another may not however in this instance perhaps this could be put down to a “communication error” and their paths do not have to depart after all the number of complaints appears to be minimal but it does involve the Head of State, if this was done in another country that the Queen is not sovereign but involved another monarch would the consequences be a lot worse than loosing his job I ponder?

We need to be careful how we talk about the Royal Family and vice versa and Christmas would not be Christmas if we did not have the Monarchs Christmas message would it now so either listen to it or choose not to but lets not have a repeat of what occurred in this case.

These comments are made as an overview having never heard the man before or the station mentioned and what I have read as prise on a number of different websites about the story.

He should be promoted to Court Jester

No cries in this case about 'the excesses of the PC brigade', eh?

Two words best describe this commentary: Bor-ing!