I predict a massive backlash to all this mourning once the funeral is over

[FayeGovan]

So far the media is all about how we are grieving as a nation and no other voices are tolerated.

Its a pretence that will come back with a vengeance.

The country hasn't been in such a bad way for a long long time and millions have been spent on mourning someone many of us had no interest in.

Its wearing thin and we aren't at Monday yet....

I feel the same

The world is full of pundits. And most of them are wrong.

Yeh there will be huge anger. There are so many families that are struggling to pay for basic things and our country is in an absolute state. 😢

The amount of money ‘the nation’ has spent on flowers, Paddington bears and marmalade sandwiches to rot outside the palaces and other public spaces, I don’t think those people have any right to complain about how much money has been spent on the funeral tbh. Thousands of people have done that and if they were that worried about costs, they would have donated that money to charity or done something else productive with it. Same with going to stand in the queues, you surely don’t need much intelligence to know that going to London and adding to the numbers there means this whole operation will cost more.

@LondonWolf
What unity ? Prove it .

Media blanket coverage esp from the BBC - meaningless and expected.

The very fact that the queen mandated 10 days of mourning means she knew there would be trouble .
She was trying to shore things up .

Are you seriously saying you watched the coverage of people walking past the coffin, for no other reason than you might have a chance to feel superior over someone you know?

and how long did you watch for? Must have been quite a while.

@Cleothecat75 That's actually a very good point.

I wonder how many of those leaving mountains of tat have been vocal about the cost of living crisis, yet happy to spend money on a woman who by accident of birth never knew hunger or want.

You couldn't make it up really!

Fortunately MN is an excellent source of all the latest gossip.

This made me laugh. The pp watching it for hours just for that

Makes me laugh just how angry some people get at any sign of unity or positivity from the British people. I suppose these lengthy shows of respect and love, based on hundreds of years of historical pageantry and symbols, the pulling together of all our nations, don't really fit the narrative of us being a majority broken, selfish, cruel, useless people. I watched HM lying in state last night. The huge numbers of people from all cultures, young and old, coming quietly through to pay their respects gave me such optimism and made me realise that this kind social media divisiveness must be ignored. Even in death HM brings us together. The poison darters must be ignored

This, 100%

You’re absolutely right. I liked the queen but I was over this nonsense by day two. It’s literally sick and twisted, the amount of money being spent on the death of an elderly 96 year old woman. Bloody hell. She lived an absolutely blessed, happy life and lived to be 96 years old! Why anyone is acting like this is a great tragedy is beyond me. Anyone else would be thrilled to have had a life like this, a peaceful death aged nearly 100 after a life like hers is hardly a tragedy. Spending 6.9 billion pounds on her death, when people are unable to buy food and need to rely on food banks, are worried about literally freezing to death during winter, not to mention the absolute disgraceful state of schools, the NHS and mental health services in the UK from lack of funding…. THIS is the tragedy. It’s unbelievable. We must be the laughing stock of the world.

Personally, the only backlash I can foresee is to all the allowances being made to placate the Sussexes. Looking at the Times & Telegraph, people are not impressed.

Presumably, the RF are hoping to avoid more incendiary revelations in Harry's toxic memoirs, which are no doubt being feverishly updated by the ghostwriter as we speak, to include every fresh grievance and perceived slight.

I don't think it will. As I said above, a few Jubilee mugs aren't going to undo the damage that the extra bank holiday has caused, not just financial loss to people but missed medical appointments and having to rearrange funerals and weddings etc. I wonder how many businesses will go under (though if it were a choice between going under and dealing with a few virtue signallers, I'd deal with the virtue signallers, but it's not necessarily that easy if your workers don't have childcare). OK maybe they were going to go under anyway, but this should not have contributed to the financial problems so many people have.

Oh this x 1000
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Morrison's have caved in now - before they were holding out and saying no music and quieter tills.

@LondonWolf
I watched HM lying in state last night. The huge numbers of people from all cultures, young and old, coming quietly through to pay their respects gave me such optimism

Different people take hope and optimism from very different things, and virtually none can claim to be objectively “right”. I think both monarchists and those who oppose the current setup would do well to remember that, and at times both sides have been lacking. Doing so is certainly one important manifestation of respect.

People should respect the feelings and intelligence of those who queued to see the Queen, but at the same time those who queued shouldn’t claim to represent the feelings of the entire nation, nor question the motives of those who didn’t.

She lived an absolutely blessed, happy life and lived to be 96 years old! Why anyone is acting like this is a great tragedy is beyond me

Exactly. It was 9 year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel's funeral yesterday. THAT was a tragedy.

But no one is spending billions on the funeral.

@gatehouseoffleet
So true

So, I was at the lying in state last night. Met some friends and went after work. The one thing we said, it was signposted really badly to get wristbands (at Tate Britain) - we had to ask a few policemen and security people.

After that, there wasn't a lot we could do, apart from have dinner and then we saw a film at a cinema in Victoria Street to kill time until we had to queue again (said to be between 12 and 1). I mentioned why didn't we just go there (just after 11pm) and others agreed. A security person said that as the queues had gone down a lot yes we could sort of 'skip' and go earlier. Once there, the security people were quite ruthless, my friend had bought some perfume (unopened in a sealed box) but they chucked this out and told her she should have been aware of guidelines. We then filed through and though it was solemn and sad, all that waiting around was hard and I sort of thought why did I bother?

I mean it's something I can tell relatives about and the history was all there but that was it.

The one good thing I saw from all the cafes/restaurants/pubs around Pimlico/Victoria was that they are doing/will do good business, including the Curzon cinema where we went. Especially after what they lost during Covid.

You do think though, the money spent here is a lot.

There were 3 days of official mourning for the Russian dictator Stalin in 1953 and the workers had to work through it with just a brief respite as their shifts were interrupted with patriotic speeches ..

I guess the haters are gonna hate.

@FayeGovan

"Im looking forward to programmes like HIGNFY, they'll wipe the floor with all this shit. But they have to keep quiet just now, to show respect..."

...and maybe* *you should follow suit.

@Oldrockingchair

"i fucking hate this country at the moment. It was bad enough when people lost their minds in covid, and it’s happening all over again."

... You do realise you have options right?

You talk of "wiping the floor with all this shit" how nasty, vile and vitriolic.

Maybe the 100's of thousands of people that have turned out (and will continue to do so) shows the level of respect that this nation has for the queen, who worked until 2 days before her death at 96.

Absolutely howling at the fact that HIGNFY wipes the floor with anyone.

The programme that helped Boris Johnson’s PR?

What are the viewing figures for it now? It doesn’t have the influence or attention it might have once had.

@Mfsf
"Anyway the U.K. has never been in such bad conditions"

I assume you're not an authority on history? Or even studied it at school or seen any documentaries, read any books, visited any museums.....? 🤔😂