To think the Queen is pretty fucking cool

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Just that really.
We’re going to struggle when she goes

It was 3 weeks after lock down before we had the queen speaking to the nation!

Hardly a sign of a person worried about the nation. She has history of being slow in addressing the public.

I think we would cope without such care.

Nah. I think ‘we’ will be fine when she goes. The monarchy will struggle but that can only be a good thing.

Drove ambulances in the war

The bollocks she did. She trained as a mechanic in the ATS . Which was also valuable work, before anyone gets upset on the part of their great gran who, etc.

I always hoped the monarchy would die with the Queen.

She's sitting on untold wealth and empty properties while thousands of her 'subjects' are homeless and in poverty.

So would HMQ handing Sandringham to the poor change homelessness or poverty?

You need to look at society as a whole, to determine why people end up homeless and in poverty.

What would you like her to do? Sell them off to some oligarch, or knock them down and build some flats?

Why would you need to do either? They could be used as they stand to provide accommodation to the vulnerable.

You need to look at society as a whole, to determine why people end up homeless and in poverty.

I don't disagree, but wealth inequality should be tackled from the top down.

Sorry, but most homeless people (not all, but most) are homeless because of drug addiction or mental illness. You're not going to "tackle" the problem through redistribution of income.

I love the Queen. Or maybe I just love the Queen on The Crown - who knows? But I love her. Instinctive, you know.

Sorry, but most homeless people (not all, but most) are homeless because of drug addiction or mental illness. You're not going to "tackle" the problem through redistribution of income.

No, but giving them somewhere safe to live would be a start.

Whoever described her as a class act was spot on. She’s 94, sharp as a needle and still refuses to retire after 68 years. Amazing woman, they don’t make them like her any more.

Pretty sure she's sharp enough to object to any speech writing that was not relevant, hyperbolic, or up to snuff.
I love my country, and I understand the difference between monarch and elected commander-in-chief, but she's damn sight cooler than Trump.
I'm just waiting for him to go away, already...

Here's hoping I'm as sharp at 94. Not likely, but hoping!

She's a parasite. So are her family. They can all fuck off.

I like the Queen. I think she's a good person who has done very well at being Queen. Doesn't make her some kind of hero.

I think Charles gets hard done by because he cheated on Diana. He might be a bit of a clueless toff but I've always had the impression he's a quite compassionate and charitable man.

Of course, I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THEM.

No, I won't struggle at all when she's dead. There is absolutely no reason to, she's not my family or part of my life.

Pretty sure she's sharp enough to object to any speech writing that was not relevant, hyperbolic, or up to snuff.

Not sharp enough to realise that sitting in front of a gold piano while austerity is being implemented and not felt by her isnt the best look

But she’s an old lady that reads words off a monitor that someone else writes for her. It’s no demonstration of HER intellect or opinion or personality.

Apart from the Queens speech at the state opening of parliament. She writes her own speeches.

Despite this, the Queen said, "our streets are not empty, they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other

She writes her own speeches and this insensitive bollocks is what she comes out with ? When the neighbours were partying where was the love for the bereaved neighbour who was sitting in her house crying ? Where was the love for the neighbour who lives alone with children who is struggling to cope ? For the elderly couple who are housebound?

People just wanted a party and to get drunk

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Pretty fucking detached/shielded from reality
Pretty irrelevant to the majority of under 70's
Pretty isolated from "her" people...
Yep love to see an end to the monarchy and the leeching of resources supporting their idle superfluous backsides.

She’s brilliant. Yes she’s had financial privilege but I wouldn’t choose the life she’s had for all the money in the world

Apart from the Queens speech at the state opening of parliament. She writes her own speeches.

They’re meaningless. She says what the public want to hear. It’s all about keeping the peasants happy. Never any offer of any financial help.

, but she's damn sight cooler than Trump

Both an embarrasment to their countries in their own way. I always feel we’re a bit of a laughing stock having an unelected “queen”, there purely through the accident of birth. There’s nothing at all cool by the bloated over privileged royal family. But why compare to Trump. At least he is what the people voted for. Let’s compare to the Irish presidency, that is cool.

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That's pretty much what happened with Sunninghill Park. Sold off in a very dodgy deal to a business man 'friend' of Prince Andrews, then demolished soon afterwards.

She's sitting on untold wealth and empty properties while thousands of her 'subjects' are homeless and in poverty.

What would you like her to do - give it away to the first people in the queue? Grow up.

Yes she should hand some of her properties back. Why on earth should she be allowed so many.