Not looking good for Queenie

Kittyfrisk

Don't any of you listen to our National Broadcaster ? (stands to attention & salutes).

There was an interview on Radio 4 earlier with Simon Hill, a protester in Oxford here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001byk7  at around 43:00 minutes.
Apparently a history teacher shouting 'who elected him' is just cause for arrest, despite his release without charge later.

History teaches nothing to anti free speech ideologs...

ewal

Devil#20 said:

What did the bloke shout at Andrew? I thought treason was abolished under Tony Blair. 

He shouted “Andrew, you're a sick old man"

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1569334401095303169

p90fool

Shrews said:

Anybody any ideas why it still hasn't been announced what she died of? 

It's usually syphilis with monarchs isn't it?

Cols

EricTheWeary said:

... catching bits on the radio, expect transport in and out of London to be a complete mare over the long weekend. More people in London a week today than at any other point in history. So, good luck with all that. 

Yup, this will definitely be the case.  I have a friend in Edinburgh who’s greatly upset that her commute was spoiled by the funeral procession. Mind you, her political outlook is such that her idea of a suitable funeral would be “dig a hole in the Balmoral front lawn and roll her in”.

London will be at a standstill at the weekend, but it’s one weekend.  Accept that it’ll be like that, plan around it and move on.

Kittyfrisk

p90fool said:

Shrews said:

Anybody any ideas why it still hasn't been announced what she died of? 

It's usually syphilis with monarchs isn't it?

Or an overdose of having to meet & speak to inept noxious toxic Tory twats posing as PM's...

TTony

chris78 said:

but would have been detained for shouting “murder” at the funeral of a Sinn Feiner? Doubt it

I imagine that disrupting a Sinn Fein funeral would likely incur some personal discomfort.

Sambostar

Dominic said:

Good point .........I thought it was Osteosarcoma ( heresay on internet )
But does it really matter ......she was 96.I'm certain she wasn't murdered .

Absolutely wrong, poison death dart from our in house Spy for the KGB, lickes Truss

Sporky

Bike racks in Norwich closed as a mark of respect. 

TeleMaster

Considering people always moan that the left is mad about cancel culture, the amount of Daily Mail readers calling for people's heads, jobs and livelihoods should put that nonsense to rest. Both sides are always trying to one up the other. 

Arresting people at public events, bundling them away, ignoring assaults from feverous patriots because someone held up a placard calling for a Republic... this is getting silly now. 

JezWynd

Sporky said:

Bike racks in Norwich closed as a mark of respect. 

Calm down dear. The space was needed as a repository for floral tributes.

Purely by chance I was in Norwich town centre on Sunday and got to see the official declaration of Charles as king. The Mayor, Town Crier, two huge ceremonial maces and lots of local dignitaries on the steps of the Town Hall, ending with a three cheers for the king.

Kittyfrisk

JezWynd said:

Sporky said:

Bike racks in Norwich closed as a mark of respect. 

Calm down dear. The space was needed as a suppository for floral tributes.

Purely by chance I was in Norwich town centre on Sunday and got to see the official declaration of Charles as king. The Mayor, Town Crier, two huge ceremonial maces and lots of local dignitaries on the steps of the Town Hall, ending with a three cheers for the king.

FTFY.
I reckon the two huge ceremonial mace's were stashes in case the police run out while preventing dissenters from breathing freely.

Sporky

JezWynd said:

Sporky said:

Bike racks in Norwich closed as a mark of respect. 

Calm down dear. The space was needed as a repository for floral tributes.

Calm down poppet. No need to get all hysterical about a simple report of the news.  

rsvmark

The times reports the most recent YouGov poll today.

Support for the monarchy as an institution is 62% in favour and 21 against. Largely unchanged from previous polls

73% think Charles has responded well, and 5% don’t.

63% think Charles III will make a good king and 15% don’t. Roughly doubling previous polls.

it seems rather more clear cut than Brexit then.

Hattigol

rsvmark said:

The times reports the most recent YouGov poll today.

Support for the monarchy as an institution is 62% in favour and 21 against. Largely unchanged from previous polls

73% think Charles has responded well, and 5% don’t.

63% think Charles III will make a good king and 15% don’t. Roughly doubling previous polls.

it seems rather more clear cut than Brexit then.

I think the Brexit vote established that British people are too stupid to be trusted to vote on anything of importance.

Deadman

BBC reporting one woman who’s queued up 7 times to see the coffin over and over. No wonder there’s a queue then! Pictures of parents with knackered looking kids who’ve been out all night too. I’m not into this mass hysteria stuff and am grateful for Monday off so I can put my feet up with a bottle of red and loads of nibbles and catch some of the proceedings. 

I get it, but even if Jimi Hendrix came back to life I still wouldn’t want to go through the turmoil of being in such close proximity to the general public for such a long period of time.

JezWynd

Whether Charles survives as king is entirely in the hands of the media. If he does something to piss off the right wing press then he could be toast. He seems a strange mix of uber-entitlement and tree hugger, with the ability to potentially annoy both sides of the political divide. Once the honeymoon is over I feel he could be in for a tough ride.

Offset

Deadman said:

I get it, but even if Jimi Hendrix came back to life I still wouldn’t want to go through the turmoil of being in such close proximity to the general public for such a long period of time.

I would!!!

PFAllen2

TTony said:

chris78 said:

but would have been detained for shouting “murder” at the funeral of a Sinn Feiner? Doubt it

I imagine that disrupting a Sinn Fein funeral would likely incur some personal discomfort.

Not would, did.

chris78

rsvmark said:

The times reports the most recent YouGov poll today.

Support for the monarchy as an institution is 62% in favour and 21 against. Largely unchanged from previous polls

73% think Charles has responded well, and 5% don’t.

63% think Charles III will make a good king and 15% don’t. Roughly doubling previous polls.

it seems rather more clear cut than Brexit then.

It's a bit like a poll in Putin's Russia though.

If you have the media 24/7 plugging the monarchy and no alternate views are invited, it's not really surprising that 63% think Charles will make a good king.

Clearly the media aren't mentioning the months of Sunday Times exposes on him about cash for access, the money in the suitcase from Qatar, the money from Bin Laden's family etc. That's before you consider the fact that Prince Andrew's Mother was able to use her influence and money to ensure he didn't face due process, or the fact they've avoided an IHT bill which would amount to a 9 figure sum. It's blanket "isn't the monarchy great" because the establishment want to cement Charles when the Crown is at a vulnerable time, given Charles' record to date.

Sporky

And the Duchy's letters to Cornwall home owners, saying "we own the land under your house and we can open a mine there if we want to".

It is critically important to the royal family to suppress all dissent and prevent any open discussion of the future of the monarchy at this stage, so they can get Charles embedded and ensure continued influence over the country's laws.