Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second 1926-2022

DLax69

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UlstermanAbroad said:
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.
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sadly, too few people honor their oaths these days...
 
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UlstermanAbroad said:
You wouldn't say that if you'd fallen off it.
Since the water has more metals in it, than
a Fiat car of the '70's.
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my grandfather used to tell me to "take a long walk off a short pier" (sounds nicer in Italiano) whenever he got tired of me...
 
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DLax69 said:
my grandfather used to tell me to "take a long walk off a short pier" (sounds nicer in Italiano) whenever he got tired of me...
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Yeh. I think my grandfather used to think that sometimes, but so far as I can recall, he never said it.
Having fought his way across Africa and all the way up Italy and done some very hush hush work on
radar and then had to garrison Palestine while the Irgun were trying to assassinate British officers and
narrowly avoided being killed in the King David Hotel; I think he was well able to ignore me.
Even when I was being an annoying little bast@rd.
 
DLax69

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UlstermanAbroad said:
Yeh. I think my grandfather used to think that sometimes, but so far as I can recall, he never said it.
Having fought his way across Africa and all the way up Italy and done some very hush hush work on
radar and then had to garrison Palestine while the Irgun were trying to assassinate British officers and
narrowly avoided being killed in the King David Hotel; I think he was well able to ignore me.
Even when I was being an annoying little bast@rd.
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In all fairness to the man, I actually don't think I ever did anything to bother him...for similar reasons, though as an Italian national enlisting in the US Army, he was sent to the Pacific Theater...he's well missed. And yours sounds like an exemplar, and model to you, my friend...
 
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UlstermanAbroad said:
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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I think I got it wrong anyway UA, her old man sold tele aerials and wasn't a builder.
 
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DLax69 said:
...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.
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One of the worlds great mysteries Dennis " How the Fcuk did the Spice Girls crack America?"
 
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