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shadowhiveWell I’d hoped these daily posts would be mostly cheery and yet here we are, a few days in and this one isn’t gonna be.
Discussions of politics/the monarchy under the cut.
So yesterday the queen died.
I had a feeling something was wrong when there was an interruption in what ep we were watching (even though it wa sleds than half an hour till the news). It was innocuous really, an announcement by the doctors that she was under observation or something…. And yet the news dragged that out for the rest of the afternoon.
So it didn’t surprise me that it was announced she’d died, though it did seem a little fast. I feel bad for her that her last official act involved meeting Boris and Truss on the same day (fucking hell).
I’m not a royalist or anything, I have no love for the monarchy but I’ve found some of the peoples responses to it to be crass. Like people were hoping she was going to die the minute she was under observation.
And then when it was announced she’d died people were acting like they were glad, rattling off all the bad things that happened during her reign. Reading them you’d think she spent her time cackling evilly while personally signing off each and every bad thing the government has done. (I’ve even seen some people act like things were her fault, despite said things occurring before she was even born.)
The thing is though, the queen had little real power. Yeah she was ‘head of state’ but what did she actually do? Mostly ceremonial or diplomatic stuff. (So by blaming her for every bad thing that’s happened is both inaccurate and takes the blame away from the actual people responsible.)
There may technically be power in the office but do you think if she’d ever tried to wield it anyone have listened?
It reminded me of something from a few years back. Prince Charles made a public comment, disagreeing with some government policy (I can’t remember what, most likely environmental) and he was crucified for it. The royals are just figureheads, they’re not supposed to say anything about the government or politics publicly like that.
It’s possible she made comments privately during meetings with PM’s but we’ll never know, but I don’t think so.
And the thing is too, I think there was a level of fondness in the country for her, something that just isn’t there for Charles and whoever comes after him. I think, with her passing, the royal family will start to fade. But who knows, I could be wrong.
Now we enter a ‘state of mourning’. Apparently the next ten days at least have been planned for a long time (though who knows if what I read is what will actually happen). What it’ll mean is anyones guess (last night had 4 of the 5 main channels dedicated to stuff about the queen, I expect that to be the case for the next few days at least).
The thing is that this is truly awful timing. We’ve got a cost of living and energy crisis, that needs attention and answers (not least because the government has been a zombie government since Boris resigned). The new government just started earlier this week and the cabinet is a mix of the incompetent, the evil and the greedy (typical for tories). I have no doubt they’ll use this as an excuse to delay any response (thus making the crisises worse by inaction) or they’ll try and use everything as a smokescreen to push through something awful, or to bury things. I mean I’ve already seen someone call the energy crisis ‘insignificant’ compared to the queens death.
But instead of focussing on those things, people are making cheap jokes.
Discussions of politics/the monarchy under the cut.
So yesterday the queen died.
I had a feeling something was wrong when there was an interruption in what ep we were watching (even though it wa sleds than half an hour till the news). It was innocuous really, an announcement by the doctors that she was under observation or something…. And yet the news dragged that out for the rest of the afternoon.
So it didn’t surprise me that it was announced she’d died, though it did seem a little fast. I feel bad for her that her last official act involved meeting Boris and Truss on the same day (fucking hell).
I’m not a royalist or anything, I have no love for the monarchy but I’ve found some of the peoples responses to it to be crass. Like people were hoping she was going to die the minute she was under observation.
And then when it was announced she’d died people were acting like they were glad, rattling off all the bad things that happened during her reign. Reading them you’d think she spent her time cackling evilly while personally signing off each and every bad thing the government has done. (I’ve even seen some people act like things were her fault, despite said things occurring before she was even born.)
The thing is though, the queen had little real power. Yeah she was ‘head of state’ but what did she actually do? Mostly ceremonial or diplomatic stuff. (So by blaming her for every bad thing that’s happened is both inaccurate and takes the blame away from the actual people responsible.)
There may technically be power in the office but do you think if she’d ever tried to wield it anyone have listened?
It reminded me of something from a few years back. Prince Charles made a public comment, disagreeing with some government policy (I can’t remember what, most likely environmental) and he was crucified for it. The royals are just figureheads, they’re not supposed to say anything about the government or politics publicly like that.
It’s possible she made comments privately during meetings with PM’s but we’ll never know, but I don’t think so.
And the thing is too, I think there was a level of fondness in the country for her, something that just isn’t there for Charles and whoever comes after him. I think, with her passing, the royal family will start to fade. But who knows, I could be wrong.
Now we enter a ‘state of mourning’. Apparently the next ten days at least have been planned for a long time (though who knows if what I read is what will actually happen). What it’ll mean is anyones guess (last night had 4 of the 5 main channels dedicated to stuff about the queen, I expect that to be the case for the next few days at least).
The thing is that this is truly awful timing. We’ve got a cost of living and energy crisis, that needs attention and answers (not least because the government has been a zombie government since Boris resigned). The new government just started earlier this week and the cabinet is a mix of the incompetent, the evil and the greedy (typical for tories). I have no doubt they’ll use this as an excuse to delay any response (thus making the crisises worse by inaction) or they’ll try and use everything as a smokescreen to push through something awful, or to bury things. I mean I’ve already seen someone call the energy crisis ‘insignificant’ compared to the queens death.
But instead of focussing on those things, people are making cheap jokes.
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Date: 2022-09-10 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-11 12:07 pm (UTC)I’ve generally come to realise that people are truly awful and this is just another example