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That famous two bar fire that guests of The Queen have mentionedReally good article in the Tmes about the Queen’s portraits…

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second 1926-2022
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we joined the queue yesterday at 3.30pm at Bermondsey and got into the abbey at 11.30pm, very well organised and hats off to all the security teams, police and volunteers
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We are either in the queue or watching the queue. Even the word is the main letter …Q with four other letters standing silently behind it.
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Not sure i've ever seen a better explanation for the American Revolution...
Actually, I am somewhat mesmerized by (and in awe of) this phenomenal demonstration of shared grief and solidarity. And really can't imagine circumstances here and now which could lead to anything remotely similar...
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This is the "elitist" stuff that drives people mad...aren't they all on a break right now? If so, how is their time more valuable...?
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There is potentially a case for MPs (though perhaps tenuous) but to be able to bring up to 4 guests is totally wrong. That’s the part that is tone deaf and grossly unfair to those waiting their turn.
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Beckham queued for 13 hours just like everyone else
www.theguardian.com
‘It’s special to be here’: David Beckham joins queue to pay tribute to Queen
Former England captain recalls receiving his OBE as he waits with thousands of mourners in central London
www.theguardian.com
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ain't his wife a royal...?Beckham queued for 13 hours just like everyone else
‘It’s special to be here’: David Beckham joins queue to pay tribute to Queen
Former England captain recalls receiving his OBE as he waits with thousands of mourners in central London
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Builder's daughter from Goffs Oak I thought?
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We are all equal but some are more equal than others.
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UlstermanAbroad
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I used to think that Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker of the House) was a decent enough chap.
I was going to say. Better than Bercow. But, Peter Sutcliffe would've been better than Bercow.
Most MPs wouldn't be recognised in a crowd. The few that face a security threat or are too obese
to bounce their way along, without having a coronary and triggering a by election. Fine.
But no passes for 'others' such as donors. If anybody deserved them, the disabled do.
The idea of making people who wish to pay their respects to The Queen, queue for many hours
is thoughtless beyond words.
Firstly. UK / Commonwealth residents ought to have been given preference. Not fking tourists who just happened to be here, while 'doing' Europe. Our Sovereign lying in state is not a fking tourist attraction.
The Accessibility Queue was a shambles apparently. For more reasons that I have the time to list here.
The Accessibility Queue was where Armed Forces veterans with injuries where forced to queue. If they were lucky.
Obviously, the planning must be focused on the Sovereign. However, 'let the proles queue' is not an attitude worthy of our country and certainly not of our late Sovereign.
For the record. I would've loved to have paid my respects to my late Sovereign. I swore an oath to be faithful and bear true allegiance....etc etc which I regarded as seriously as any of many oaths I took during my life and so far as I'm concerned, it applies until my own death. If necessary.
But, there was no way on earth, that I could've contemplated, even the Accessibility Queue, given what I found out about how it operated / is operating, from those who used it. And the queue that was open to all, was never an option for me.
So, you can imagine how finding out about MP's passes, really, really grinds my gears.
So far as I'm concerned. This is just another example of the widespread corruption in our institutions of government. Which wouldn't matter quite so much. If we weren't asking our young men and women in uniform, to sacrifice themselves to protect our freedoms and institutions.
I was going to say. Better than Bercow. But, Peter Sutcliffe would've been better than Bercow.
Most MPs wouldn't be recognised in a crowd. The few that face a security threat or are too obese
to bounce their way along, without having a coronary and triggering a by election. Fine.
But no passes for 'others' such as donors. If anybody deserved them, the disabled do.
The idea of making people who wish to pay their respects to The Queen, queue for many hours
is thoughtless beyond words.
Firstly. UK / Commonwealth residents ought to have been given preference. Not fking tourists who just happened to be here, while 'doing' Europe. Our Sovereign lying in state is not a fking tourist attraction.
The Accessibility Queue was a shambles apparently. For more reasons that I have the time to list here.
The Accessibility Queue was where Armed Forces veterans with injuries where forced to queue. If they were lucky.
Obviously, the planning must be focused on the Sovereign. However, 'let the proles queue' is not an attitude worthy of our country and certainly not of our late Sovereign.
For the record. I would've loved to have paid my respects to my late Sovereign. I swore an oath to be faithful and bear true allegiance....etc etc which I regarded as seriously as any of many oaths I took during my life and so far as I'm concerned, it applies until my own death. If necessary.
But, there was no way on earth, that I could've contemplated, even the Accessibility Queue, given what I found out about how it operated / is operating, from those who used it. And the queue that was open to all, was never an option for me.
So, you can imagine how finding out about MP's passes, really, really grinds my gears.
So far as I'm concerned. This is just another example of the widespread corruption in our institutions of government. Which wouldn't matter quite so much. If we weren't asking our young men and women in uniform, to sacrifice themselves to protect our freedoms and institutions.
UlstermanAbroad
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No, no. Dennis has it right. Before she was a WAG, she was Princess Posh Spice of Goffs Oak.
Sort of sandwiched between the Royal Borough of Watford and the Royal Borough of Enfield.
Ennit.
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No, just a reader of the works of Eric Blair.Marxist!
This is a capitalist country with a rigid class system
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...sorry; was tongue-in-cheek. Still bad at the emoji thingies. My wife was apparently one of the biggest Spice Girls fans in the Known World...things you learn.