God Save the King

On balance I err on the side of a republic ... and asset strip the royals and give them back to the people they stole from .... and while we at it get the yanks to give back the native americans there land they stole .... and the French compensation to the families of the Congo that lost there hands in the rubber attrocity
 
BoroMart said:
It’s not the system they’re unhappy with, just the current incumbent…guess what they can vote him out soon. There’s literally no one in france calling for a return of the monarchy.

Anymore for anymore?
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Le Président de la république.
 
Colin Warnek said:
Or history and tradition whichever way you look at it.

You must have been positively seething yesterday.
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No not really. I was in central London and had a look around. My young son is quite into it all. The world isn’t as binary as it seems on the internet. The phrase “God save the King” is still propaganda which means nowt though unless you’re a chest thumping monarchist with strong religious beliefs, neither of which apply to me.

It’s Sunday morning - you should be at church! 😁
 
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atypical_boro said:
No not really. I was in central London and had a look around. My young son is quite into it all. The world isn’t as binary as it seems on the internet. The phrase “God save the King” is still propaganda which means nowt though unless you’re a chest thumping monarchist with strong religious beliefs, neither of which apply to me.

It’s Sunday morning - you should be at church! 😁
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I’m glad you enjoyed the festivities and took them in.

Sunday morning isn’t the only time one can attend a church… I thought you republicans were all about openness etc?
 
Colin Warnek said:
I’m glad you enjoyed the festivities and took them in.

Sunday morning isn’t the only time one can attend a church… I thought you republicans were all about openness etc?
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Well if I desperately wanted God to “save” someone I’ve never met for me I’d be there at every given opportunity 😁.
 
Pak_Doo_Ik said:
I wish my life was so perfect that the thing that wound me up the most was a coronation that happens once a lifetime and family that costs me about 80p a week
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80p? That's roughly what I spend for lunch every day (a tin of own-brand soup with bread), and sometimes I struggle to find it. Once I even pulled a sickie because I couldn't afford the petrol to get me and my 22 year old car in. That's my perfect life.
But that's beside the point. Ask yourself this: If the royal family is so unimportant, why does the Daily Telegraph carry at least eleven royal 'stories' every single day of the week? The reason is because it deems it a vital part in the 'manufacture of consent'. Your disingenuousness is a manifestation of that process. If you like it, why not just say you like it? For the same reason that Sarah Vine's poison pen is wielded alongside a story about Kate Middleton's slingbacks.
Other people don't like it. Why can't that be their business same as liking it's yours? The fact is they were very deliberately closed down yesterday and even when they manage to raise their heads on an obscure message board they are hunted down by the outriders of reaction. The 'distraction' of royalty, as I try to explain below, is part of a deadly serious game. I would hope that the arrest of the leader of the impeccably polite and middle-class pressure group Republic might give you pause for thought.
I've even liked the OP's post because even though he was on a blatant wind-up at least he was honest. Fair enough, there were lots of happy flag wavers yesterday and even if my personal opinion is that they are idiots, I accept (for now) that I'm in a minority. Furthermore, if flag-waving is the only objectionable habit or attitude they possess then I'm fine with it.
It never is though.

Bread and circuses
 
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