To be unreasonably annoyed at Royals at the pantomime

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I post knowing I’m totally unreasonable (probably) and you’ll all shout but I got both angry and sad and rage at seeing the press stories of Kate and Wills at the pantomime in the West End.

I’m normally a fan, and of course I don’t begrudge those cute kids a pantomime.

But my kids don’t get that this year, no Santa experiences, no pantomime no fucking nothing because we are tier 3 and if our local pub or theatre ever open again I’ll die of shock.

But we are in the North so who gives a fuck right?

I just have the absolute unreasonable fury tonight.

The Royals travelling up and down the U.K. when the rest of us are told not to is hypocrisy

No one has said you can’t travel up and down the country if you are working.

Was it essential W&K travelled? Could they not have done their thank
yous from home?

No one has said you can’t travel up and down the country if you are working.

Only if it's essential.

Your work doesn’t have to be essential. You could be a mobile dog groomer hired to dye an Instagrammer’s poodle to next year’s hot colour. As long as someone’s prepared to pay you, you can’t do it from home and you can do it in an arguable Covid secure way then you’re legally fine to travel all over the place to do it.

No one has said you can’t travel up and down the country if you are working

Neither William or Kate work.

@FindHungrySamurai

The guidance is "travel for work, if it's essential"

I'm sure someone put be able to spell out to W&K that their travel for "work" (if you can call it that!) is really not essential. The "leaders" of the country bending the rules is not a good look, is it?

I know so often rules don't apply to the monarchy, let's look at Andrew, who should be rights be behind bars. It gets very tedious when they're all twisting and bending rules to suit them.

I think I'll change my job to be a mobile princess, I can then travel as I wish.

You can travel for work if the travel is essential in order to do the job, but the job itself doesn’t have to be essential. For example I like Richard Osman’s House of Games as much as anyone, but it’s scarcely essential. Nonetheless, the guests and crew are allowed to travel in from wherever to record it.

Why is travel essential to do their ‘job’? Couldn’t they thank people (if that can be considered a job) via video link, the way MM has?

@FindHungrySamurai as I've already said the "rulers" of the country twisting the rules under the guise of "work" is shabby to say the least.

They're not essential, they're "job" is not essential.

They are bending the rules to suit their agenda.

But it doesn’t matter whether the job the Civil List pays them to do is essential. Personally I think that encouraging people to to go to panto at the moment was actively harmful, but I do try to dispel the ongoing delusion that work has to be in some way essential to be exempted from the current rules. There is no such requirement: any work, however pointless that you can’t do from home is automatically fair game and hence on this occasion they’re really not bending the rules at all.

I’m not going to defend the general faffing around between various homes (often with separate staffs) that several of the royals seem to have been doing. That’s where they really have been pushing the rules.

The guidance is "travel for work, if it's essential

I thought it was if you can’t work from home.

Apart from medical staff and food anything else wouldn’t be deemed essential.

@Oliversmumsarmy

The guidance is "travel for work, if it's essential

I thought it was if you can’t work from home.

Apart from medical staff and food anything else wouldn’t be deemed essential.

It is. If it was “essential” hairdressers and nail bars wouldn’t be open. You can get your hair and nails done even in Tier 3.

Police, firefighters, public transport, road sweepers, prison officers, Army, zookeepers, farmers, bin men, social workers, care staff, utility workers, child care so those mentioned above can go to work. Plus as mentioned hairdressers and even librarians. And those are just off top of head.

Just remembered petrol stations, journalists, clergy and catering eg hospitals.

Don’t you feel ashamed now seeing as this was a practise run for the keyworkers go Kate and wills 👏👏👏👏

And cleaners, especially in hospitals and public transport pretty essential I'd reckon in Tier3.

Yes there are lots and lots of essential jobs, but non-essential jobs, of which nail technicians are a prime example, are still perfectly legal to go out and travel to work.

It's hard to listen to everyone going on about london in the news when we had to go into full lockdown when our area had zero cases and then we've been pretty much tier 3 since July because our massive area has high cases! Still not many here though. My local pub has barely been open and I'd be surprised if it open again

Well to some extent I do thing W&M have a job - which is to go and do things I am sure they would prefer not to - & the aim ( which may not work ) is to do a bit of morale. I would hate that. I would equally hate having to get dressed up & go and do something when I don't feel like it. I would also hate thinking I have to do this for the rest of my life ( so no retirement - voting for a republic aside ) - no money would make me do that.

I'd much rather be Pippa married to a very rich chap & you can do what the hell you like - though she will be in the Daily Mail) but both much less than being quiet and private and living my own life ( but without the money )

Well, I think having a job means you can be hired and fired.

I think the royals don’t have a job, but a ‘role’. Like wife, mother roles, due to family relations. Or feudal roles based on birth and family relationships

Don’t you feel ashamed now seeing as this was a practise run for the keyworkers go Kate and wills

Can someone please translate this into English?

@EmilyinWolverhampton

Don’t you feel ashamed now seeing as this was a practise run for the keyworkers go Kate and wills

Can someone please translate this into English?

Don’t you feel foolish now that it’s been revealed that the Cambridge family attended the dress rehearsal of the pantomime, which was organised for key workers. Go Will and Kate.

That wasn’t hard, was it?

@Loveyourideas - yes Role is a better word than job - you are right there.

Don’t you feel foolish now that it’s been revealed that the Cambridge family attended the dress rehearsal of the pantomime, which was organised for key workers. Go Will and Kate.

What a bizarre and strangle hostile couple of posts.

We knew all along the performance had been organised for key workers, there is no "now it's been revealed" about it.

The fact it was a performance for key workers doesn't make the blindest bit of difference. In fact if anything the fact it was for key workers makes it even more inappropriate for Will and Kate to have been there (and their refusal to wear masks on the red carpet totally unacceptable and selfish).

There is video of Will and Kate's PR handlers shoving key workers and the children of key workers out of the way to facilitate better photo ops for the royal children. Pretty disgusting behaviour and poor treatment of the poor people who the performance was supposedly dedicated to.

Will and Kate have just returned from a UK tour where they engaged with hundreds of members of the public without masks or social distancing. It's absolutely irresponsible for them to be mixing with key workers immediately after travelling, especially when they make a point of ignoring Covid safety protocols.

The panto took place in London. All theatre in London, including panto, has now been halted.

It's great that the panto organisers put on a special performance for key workers, but Will and Kate have absolutely nothing to do with it. So why the "go Will and Kate" part?

Why would anyone feel "ashamed" for criticising Will and Kate's unnecessary presence at and co-option as a PR tool of an event that was supposed to be about genuinely deserving people?

Oh and Vinyl, "foolish" is not a synonym of "ashamed."

Oh and the performance Will and Kate attended was not "a practice run." It was the actual performance they attended, not a dress rehearsal.