to think it's weird to celebrate the marriage of strangers?

[moogster1a]

I don't get this having street parties etc. for the royal wedding. I have nothing against the couple but think it's really odd that you would celebrate for people you don't know and never will.

I think I'll have my own little street party when they get divorced.

I literally can't beleive that they are going to rub it in our faces when we are being told that the country can't afford hospitals and schools. Like it or not, the Royal Family are rich from taxes, and they are having a big party when us poor scumbags are being told to just get over losing services that are saving lives. Before this I didn't mind the royal family, now I actively dislike them.

To me it just proves that the cuts aren't actually needed. If we were so desperate that we were reluctantly having to sacrifice lives (and that is what these cuts are), then the royal family would have stepped up to the breech and got a bloody disco in the church hall.

agree and have been told am not getting a day off work nor a day in lieu

No word of any street parties here (thank goodness). Only benefit to me is that it means I can unofficially start my mat leave early, which will be a blessed relief to me and my (undoubtedly) swollen ankles. (29th April is a national holiday in Scotland not a bank one so not everybody will be getting it, it's up to your employers. I'm a teacher and after much deliberation our local authority finally decided to go with it only a few weeks ago).

I do hope the two of them enjoy their wedding, in the same way as I would wish that of anyone getting married. But I don't feel any personal involvement (apart from paying for it, that is), why would I? I don't know them.

And yes, it's particularly galling that all this money will be wasted on this when education and other frontline public services are being squeezed.

Wonder how much Zara and Mike's do is costing?