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Dame Arlene will be like Ann Widdecombe without the warm charm. Popping up everywhere as a rentareactionary.

Who's Arl - oh Lord, HER?!

Now I've watched the parade, I'm going back to bed. I woke up shivering and hot with a racing heart in the night, but that at least passed.

Boiler wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:45 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:40 pm I am not a subject, I am a citizen. I shall treat it with the contempt it deserves.

We've been citizens since the British Nationality Act of 1948.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Ge ... ts/enacted

Do you know I actually knew that. I was trying to make a point about perceived, rather than legal status, but clearly I was being far too subtle...

Anyway, thanks for the 'splaining.

Way I see it is it is a pantomime that only the richest are invited to and the rest are encouraged to play their own version.

I don’t care much either way, I’ve got football and they’ve got this.

I ventured out to a supermarket this afternoon, a journey which took me through a housing estate and down several residential roads. I'm delighted to report I only saw two Union Flags the whole way and one of them was on a pub which flies one permanently. Surprisingly, WsM says "meh"!

Mrs Watch said earlier, while watching Trooping of the Colours, nobody does pomp like us, I avoided the opportunity to explain

Watchman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:30 pm Mrs Watch said earlier, while watching Trooping of the Colours, nobody does pomp like us, I avoided the opportunity to explain

What other army maintains city centre stabling for 600 heavy cavalry horses.

Putin must be quaking.

So, after this four day weekend, that’s it, right? No more Platty Joobs ?

So the next big thing to look forward to will be Brenda’s funeral, then the coronation do for King Chazza ?

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:40 pm So, after this four day weekend, that’s it, right? No more Platty Joobs ?

So the next big thing to look forward to will be Brenda’s funerl, then the coronation do for King Chazza ?

Unless Brenda lives another five years, of course.

I'm kind of indifferent to it all, but that's just me anyway. The one nice thing however is that since it's a Bank Holiday I was able to get free car parking in the centre of the town today while doing a big amount of shopping that saved me £1.50. Thanks Ma'am!

This is a worthy cause that can bring unity to our troubled nation.

Prince Andrew to miss jubilee service with Covid

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... with-covid

The coverage when she dies is going to be absolutely relentless. Not only that, when Charles is crowned King, too.

I find it puzzling why people who are struggling with the cost of living are so deferential to this obscenely wealthy family. Wealthy through happenstance of birth.

At St Paul's today the crowd booed Alex and Carrie, but there were 'huge cheers' for Meghan and Harry...

Paul Dacre will be double-cunting his chapped lips off.


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Twitter thinks the booing was significant, if he loses this crowd he's got no future. Let's see. No doubt Paul Scully will be out tomorrow to tell us that they weren't 'boo'ing, they were 'boris'ing.

‘Boos and cheers for Boris’ is the BBC’s take (see PM thread). This is mostly a home crowd, they didn’t even boo Gordon Brown at public occasions for selling all the gold.

I didn't hear many cheers, and the commentators on the spot referred only to boos...

Remember Osborne at the Olympics? That look on his face, going from "ha ha, panto villain", through "look, I can take a joke as well as anyone, but...", into "right, you bastards..." in about 10 seconds.

Isn’t the reporting about the Queen from her press office strangely coy? We know the Queen is almost a hundred years old, and now quite frail. So far, so normal, for a woman in the latter half of her 10th decade of life. She had to bale out of the big thanksgiving service at St, Paul’s, fairly obviously because those steps at the front are a right bugger if you’re wobbly on your pins, and walking up the long central aisle of the cathedral is a tough call for a wee 96 year old wummin, too. She was obviously a bit knackered from all that standing on the balcony watching planes flying over yesterday. Yet all the palace press office had to say was that she had “experienced some discomfort”. Discomfort? Discomfort is surely when your new shoes are pinching a bit, not being knackered from standing up for an extended period at one of your platinum jubilee events. Why on earth didn’t they just say she was very tired and wasn’t really up to it? Nobody would have been in the least bit surprised. All part of the illusion, I dare say.

Quite, quite curious.

But the older part of the Firm never really explains things, does it? It has always adopted that approach of "nothing to see here."

I wouldn't be surprised if it was arthritis.

TBQH at her age I'd rather be sat in front of the telly with my feet up watching the Derby than actually physically present.