The BBC have been overwhelmed with complaints about coverage of Prince Philip

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

Showing the same thing on 2 channels simultaneously.

Now you just enter your email to complain as they couldn’t cope with the amount of complaints.

My DM died last year and I wasn't able to hold a funeral. In fact because all the arrangements were done online & by phone, I went to work the day after she had died. Many others will have similar experiences.

I think that's exactly why people have got so annoyed. In a normal year people would have been a bit narked, but this last year with so many not being able to mourn loved ones properly, it seems totally insensitive.

@PurpleWh1teGreen
Sorry about your loss . That must have been really hard.

The days of 'national mourning' are long gone, but the RF can, within the family, mourn how they wish. In Queen Victoria's time, a widow wore mourning dress for two and half years. Times have changed.

@TheVampiresWife

As an aside, this just popped up on Facebook from someone posting in all seriousness. Lots of care emoji reacts and 'that's lovely hun' type comments.

Oh dear

Was that Alan Partridge standing next to the pearly gates? It’s the blazer and the badge, I think.

Why ‘welcome sire’, I wonder? Why not, ‘welcome, my liege?’

If you really want wall to wall turgid shite and news that supports your racist, Brexit loving ,white supremacy ideology don’t pay it and watch Fox.

@ladymalfoy45 errm who exactly are you accusing of these traits, if you don't mind me asking? The actual point of your charming rant got somewhat lost in the slew of general invective.

@PurpleWh1teGreen

I think one of the issues, and I say this as someone who is largely ambivalent about the royal family is that the concept of "national mourning" is long gone. It isn't 1952.

Apparently the country is in national mourning until the funeral and then the RF will observe the full two weeks of mourning. Now I have sympathy for the RF but their private grief is not mine to share.

My DM died last year and I wasn't able to hold a funeral. In fact because all the arrangements were done online & by phone, I went to work the day after she had died. Many others will have similar experiences.

We are not all in mourning.

@PurpleWh1teGreen so sorry for your loss. The circumstances must have made things so much harder.

If you really want wall to wall turgid shite and news that supports your racist, Brexit loving ,white supremacy ideology don’t pay it and watch Fox.

LOL, you think it's the ANTI-royalists who are racist, Brexit-supporting white supremacists????

Let me get this straight. You're firmly on the side of the pro-royalist extremists screeching that everyone in the UK needs to observe forced national mourning to honour a known-racist who enjoyed his position purely because of the birthright position of his wife.

But the posters saying "I'm not that fussed about Prince Philip's death and resent being forced to mourn the death of someone I never met" - we're the ones who are Brexiteer white supremacists?

Why ‘welcome sire’, I wonder? Why not, ‘welcome, my liege?’

Must be a typo for 'sir', surely? Captain Tom wouldn't call him sire or liege or anything

@KeflavikAirport

That greyscale nonsense and the Wisley closure really pisses me off. Seriously inconveniencing ordinary folk in the name of enforced mourning for an over privileged old racist.

What a loads of bitter, jealous rubbish about him being a racist. Does it make you feel better to try and pull everyone down to your level?

I’m curious about the notion devoted life to public service.

It’s seen to be their job and they just get told surely you’re now the patron of this charity etc.

It’s not like they go volunteer off their own back is it?

I’m sure if any individual had a team to organise their charitable and community works then devoting you’re life to public service is easy.

What a loads of bitter, jealous rubbish about him being a racist. Does it make you feel better to try and pull everyone down to your level?

Does it make you feel better to whitewash the fact that some of the things he said were indeed racist?

As for jealous, I strongly doubt the pp is jealous she isn't royal. Or dead, for that matter. Some real logic fails on this thread.

@TheVampiresWife

As an aside, this just popped up on Facebook from someone posting in all seriousness. Lots of care emoji reacts and 'that's lovely hun' type comments.

Oh dear

@yomommasmomma

he was racist, why pretend otherwise? I dont think there is evidence that he was more racist than would be normal in a man of his generation and class - he was brought up in the age of Empire after all - but it was there, we all heard it.

[quote Porcupineintherough]@yomommasmomma

he was racist, why pretend otherwise? I dont think there is evidence that he was more racist than would be normal in a man of his generation and class - he was brought up in the age of Empire after all - but it was there, we all heard it.[/quote]
His Grandson, who has complained about his family’s racists remarks about his child thinks it’s ok. It was just banter, apparently.

Here are some examples of Prince Philip not being racist.

1999: "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." Referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh.

2002: "Still throwing spears?" Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit.

1986: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." To a group of British students during a royal visit to China.

2009: "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians.

(All from BBC news website).

What a card!

@yomommasmomma are you denying that he was racist? Seriously?

Guardian suggests the BBC were stung about criticism about coverage of the Queen Mother's funeral. Not obsequious enough apparently.

The BBC did not want to upset the government with their funding under scrutiny so played it safe by going for the full blanket coverage.

I think the presenters exaggerated the national mood of mourning and it was a distinct subset of the population that really felt impacted.

This shows how much society has changed over the last half century. Got to admit the whole British establishment in full show in 2021 is a little bit tired.

Cynically I suspect the BBC encouraged the complaints. Setting up a dedicated online form and all.

Instead of focusing on the negativity of complaints, the BBC could do something positive and constructive. Like a documentary on the Vanuatu tribe, who worshipped Prince Philip. They could help set up a fundraiser in his name. The tribe live in a lot of poverty.

He did explain some of those if you listened to the many programmes wombat.
He said it was his job to lighten the atmosphere and in the case of the Indians one he meant cowboys but got his cowboys and Indians mixed up.
The aborigine one was because he had been with another tribe earlier and they were telling him how once they had been at war with another and thrown spears at each other.
I think the Chinese one has been explained as the chinese telling their children they would become round eyed if they stayed too long in Europe.
He did put his foot in mouth often but he was hugely interested in people of all nations..As one of those who did listen and watch several of the programmes racist is not a word that describes Prince Philip.

@Colourcones

He did explain some of those if you listened to the many programmes wombat. He said it was his job to lighten the atmosphere and in the case of the Indians one he meant cowboys but got his cowboys and Indians mixed up. The aborigine one was because he had been with another tribe earlier and they were telling him how once they had been at war with another and thrown spears at each other. I think the Chinese one has been explained as the chinese telling their children they would become round eyed if they stayed too long in Europe. He did put his foot in mouth often but he was hugely interested in people of all nations..As one of those who did listen and watch several of the programmes racist is not a word that describes Prince Philip.

Exactly this, the key is to read the stories behind the headlines abs sound bites.

Anyone want to buy this lightly used bridge?

And when he said he wanted to come back as a deadly virus, pop die, no he meant a lovely fluffy kitten.

Oopsie not pop die! DYAC

And when is the postponed Masterchef going to be on?!