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By Abernathy
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The Vox Pop fuckwit interview form is truly coming into its own with this royal grief-fest.
Interviewing punters preparing to queue for 16 hours to get a 30 second glimpse of a closed box with a dead monarch in it, BBC radio 4 unearths some prize simpletons :

Reporter : “aren’t you a bit concerned about having to spend such a long time queueing up to see the Queen’s coffin? “

Fuckwit:”No, I fink it’s a small price to pay, seeing as she spent 70 years looking after all of us. “

What the actual fuck? We’ve no more been “looked after” by Queen Elizabeth than we’ve been looked after by Rod Hull and his emu. Where on earth do they find these people ?
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By Abernathy
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kreuzberger wrote: Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:56 pm Au contraire; as a Muslin or a Jew, she would have been planted within 24 hours.
Precisely my point. We’d have been spared the endless fol de rol and forelock tugging.
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By Tubby Isaacs
#32189
I don't know why, this guy tends to get on my nerves.

Support for the monarchy doesn't really differ by social class- the CDE's are only marginally less supportive. Doubtless those working class royalists disappoint Mr Osland (and me) but it doesn't do much good to see working class voters as different to how they are . Anyway, are football crowds "working class" nowadays? Less so than rugby league fans, I expect, who played on with no reported "issues".

I don't care what football fans or anybody else chants.

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By Malcolm Armsteen
#32203
I am reliably informed that the Met have booked 30,000 nights in London hotel rooms over the next week, at an average cost of £1000 a pop...
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By Abernathy
#32213
I have to admit that I am now heartily sick of the seemingly endless obsequies, and so looking forward to the time when Brenda’s lead-lined box has been locked up in the Windsor castle crypt (one of the many things I have involuntarily learned via the ongoing media grief bombardment is that monarchs do not get buried, they get interred) and we can get back to some semblance of normality, with only the utterly shit new PM and fuel bills rising by 300% to worry about.

I remain firmly an anti-monarchist, albeit a mild one, though the initial emotional impact of the passing of the most famous 96 year old in the world may have challenged those views, if only slightly. The UK’s constitutional monarchy remains the obscenely absurd, deeply anachronistic, living embodiment of anti-democratic inequality and privilege, and is now well overdue for abolition. As political priorities go, it is well down the list, but remains quite obscene.
By Youngian
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I remain firmly an anti-monarchist, albeit a mild one, though the initial emotional impact of the passing of the most famous 96 year old in the world may have challenged those views, if only slightly. The UK’s constitutional monarchy remains the obscenely absurd, deeply anachronistic, living embodiment of anti-democratic inequality and privilege, and is now well overdue for abolition. As political priorities go, it is well down the list, but remains quite obscene.


Have no problem with the head of state’s functions; Engaging with civic society, keeping their nose out of politics, oiling the wheels of diplomacy. As a consequence I don’t feel strongly about whether its a competent ceremonial monarch or a respected elected figure like Michael Higgins who does it. But this obsequious flummery and the high prospect of Charles being a pain in the arse is likely to shake this agnosticism.
By Youngian
#32217
Bet a large majority of royalists mourning on the streets also believe King Arthur was real. He burned Guinevere’s cakes.
In a tribute to the late Queen, Victoria's opposition leader Matthew guy included King Arthur in his examples of notable British monarchs who preceded Elizabeth II.
The state Liberal leader has since said he misspoke and was meant to say Alfred instead of Arthur. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vid ... sors-video
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By Watchman
#32220
With all the mentalists we now have in the Dept of Education, I’m half expecting some halfwit to come up with the idea “that to create a unified country, a new monarchy would be a good excuse to bring in a royal oath for each morning assembly”
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By Malcolm Armsteen
#32221
Watchman wrote: Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:56 am With all the mentalists we now have in the Dept of Education, I’m half expecting some halfwit to come up with the idea “that to create a unified country, a new monarchy would be a good excuse to bring in a royal oath for each morning assembly”
Burblesingh at the ready...
By Bones McCoy
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Watchman wrote: Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:56 am With all the mentalists we now have in the Dept of Education, I’m half expecting some halfwit to come up with the idea “that to create a unified country, a new monarchy would be a good excuse to bring in a royal oath for each morning assembly”
Good luck with that down the Falls Road Primary.
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By Abernathy
#32227
I just want it all to stop now. I can’t remember who it was that said that if you thought that the griefathon for Princess Diana was over the top, we should wait to see what happens when Brenda croaks, but they were dead right.
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