To be annoyed about the Jubilee

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I know I’m being miserable but I’m bloody pissed off about the sodding Jubilee! I went to sainsburys this morning, paid £1.68 a litre for petrol and then popped in to be confronted by bottles of champagne! The last thing I feel like doing is celebrating! I spent all morning cancelling non-essential DDs as things are really tight with the rise in energy prices and the increased NI contribution.
funny how this ‘magic money tree’ can be harvested to pay for this event when people are genuinely struggling and are told to ‘get a better paid job’! I have a bloody well paid job, thankyou, but am still feeling the pinch. I know people are going to say that the economy will benefit - but how? If people spend more then inflation will rise and the BOE will put up the mortgage rates! I despair!

and then popped in to be confronted by bottles of champagne! The last thing I feel like doing is celebrating!

It's a shelf with bottles of champagne. Get over it and walk on to the next aisle. Just like I manage to ignore the synthetic black and orange stuff which appears in the same place each October, not to mention the Valentine's Day tat in February. It's not difficult.

Get a grip!

It’s an amazing achievement. I’m not a Royalist but I can still acknowledge that.

It’s what the country needs, a reason to celebrate. Do you suggest we cancel Christmas too?

I'm with the French and the Russians in their attitude towards monarchy. I'd let them keep their heads though and be free to live life like the rest of.

You're confusing "scam" with achievement.

People that desperate to celebrate that they'll hang flags out for any old nonce-enabler? Where were the lessons learned after Jimmy Savile? No regrets eh Liz, just teach your sons to cultivate the same type of delightful people.

It’s only recently any of us have had to worry about not getting NHS dental care. In my dad’s generation it was common to remove all teeth and fit dentures at around 20 because there was no NHS at all and most people couldn’t afford a lifetime of dentistry.

Between 1945 and 2010 was a golden age for healthcare and most people my age have had a lifetime of the best care going, the Queen’s has been no better than that of most people her age.

What part of it is an achievement, though?

That her dad died very young, making her Queen at a young age?
That she's lucky enough not to have died?
That she chose not to abdicate?
That she was born in to extreme wealth and fortune?

I haven’t read the whole thread but I agree with you OP. I was saying to dd this morning how I feel awful celebrating when there’s so many suffering in the uk and with with the war in the Ukraine. So many people wasting money and making money from jubilee plastic crap that will be in the bin a few days later.

Yes it’s great that the Queen has lived so long and spent so long in the throne but there are more important things going on and more important things to spend (or not spend) money on.

We popped into town today, saw several homeless people begging for money/food yet over the bank holiday weekend many will waste money in blue, white and red tat and pig out on food and alcohol to celebrate the Jubilee.

Do you really, genuinely think the NHS has ever been anywhere near as good as her private, on-demand healthcare?

It’s not an achievement. It’s a momentous historic event.

Well, let's face it - she's never been allowed to say anything. All the people saying "Ooh I love the queen". No-one knows her as a person. She's not in the public eye and never has been, she's been protected all her life and shown how to create a public persona from an early age. No-one knows her real thoughts and feelings. She's possibly a nasty horrible person and no-one would ever know.

Would love to know how many Mnetters who come from colonised countries feels about this.
I’m happy to be British and English. But to me the monarchy represents British Imperialism and hundreds of years of colonised slavery in my country of India.

Shes just some old woman to me and most ethnic minorities I know. An old very rich very privileged woman who didn’t want to give up the commonwealth even though all those countries and their people didn’t give two fucks about QE.

I don’t understand what the achievement is. She has managed to live a long time due to a life of privilege pampering and incredible healthcare. So she does the washing up a bit at Balmoral (can’t believe someone posted this to show how down to earth she is 🤣)
Shes won’t have cleaned or cooked or held down a job or looked after all her children on her own, or had to scrimp and save for a holiday or worried about her bills.
I mean ffs come on. What is her job???

the simpering deference for the monarchy is embarrassing in multicultural Britain.

The vast vast majority of us brown and black people
couldnt give a shit. (I really want to say none of us but waiting for a brown person to appear and say how much the love the queen. Not gonna happen!)

That's a big assumption that people will get extra time off work.

I don't. Still working. No extra bank holiday hours either. On the plus side though phones will be quieter (although I also won't be able to contact businesses need to).

Do you really, genuinely think the NHS has ever been anywhere near as good as her private, on-demand healthcare?

Yes. It was for decades. I used to ask for a GP appointment and get one the same day. My parents got house calls from their GP - always the same one. I had regular six monthly dental checks and immediate treatment. The NHS was so good there was no genuine need for private healthcare.

I think that sums it up very well.

It is shit at the moment, but some people really need to keep their spirits up too and it is nice for the kids to learn about the royal family and our history. I'm not bothered myself, probably will just eat a chlorination chicken sandwich and a macaroon. There are no parties round here and I don't know anyone really celebrating it, apart from an excuse to get pissed up.

The media will have you believe we have all been Morris dancing, singing the national anthem and draping bunting everywhere though. I think most people are a bit pfffttt about the royals now.

I don’t understand what the historic event is. That she’s been alive for 90 years? That she has been a queen for 70 years.
it makes no sense to people like me.

is there a reason we are supposed to care someone has been queen for 70 years?? Like so what? What difference has her being queen made to one single persons life in this country? Seriously what has she actually ever done for the good of her people? What change has she enforced? What activism has she engaged with? What cause has she championed and physically engaged with (not just be a patron for and cut a ribbon). What has she actually got up in the morning and done for one. Single. Human being in this country??

Please enlighten me because I’m baffled. She’s not done anything for anybody her whole life 🤷🏽‍♀️

The NHS is now treating far more people with far more new and expensive treatments.

I am not marking it in any way. It is half term so would be off anyway. I am however marking exam papers so will be busy over the next week and beyond. I have plenty of things recorded so I can miss all the pomp and ceremony too.

How the hell would anyone afford to riot in the street? You need petrol for petrol bombs you know.

any old nonce-enabler

Exactly, FoiledByTheInsect. Beautifully said.

@Faffandahalf

Bet your fun at parties

It’s not about the Queen @Faffandahalf. It’s the longest reign in British history - since 827, almost 1200 years. That’s why it’s an historically significant event.

Some of us still have to work so its not a holiday for everyone. In Scotland too, schools in on the Thursday

And add to that list the Christmas tat which appears earlier and earlier each year.

Oh and the Mother's and Father's Day tat.