To send back that Jubilee book?

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My DS came back with the Jubilee book this week. I didn't know anything about it (the Jubilee wasn't something that I was remotely bothered by) but apparently every family with a primary aged child is getting one. I'm massively annoyed by this book... It strikes me as an enormous waste of money, especially at a time when so many people/organisations/schools etc are struggling. I also hate having patriotism shoved down my (and my kids') throat. But it's mainly the money...

WIBU to send the book back (haven't figured out to whom yet. I'm guessing not the queen) with a note saying 'no, thank you'?

I agree! £12m for a shit book when people can't feed their kids or pay their energy bills. Another example of the royal family being totally out of touch.

Totally ur choice, we cannot please everyone but the majority of parents from what I have seen are really pleased to get a keepsake.

It cost £2.50 per child

What could you buy for £2.50 that would make a sustainable impact across a whole population? It’s not really a lot of money in the scheme of things.

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Go on then @ImJustNotMeAnymore - explain to me, in simple sentences, how sucking up to a mindbogglingly rich & privileged family will improve the poor state of our nation?

While you're at it, tell me what you reckon is so fine about patriotism?

Ha! My people have arrived to the thread! Glad it's not just me, after all 😊.

This.

You live under a Monarchy. Bore off OP, honestly. You're more tedious than the book.

Yes, of course, totally my choice. I agree. I have, however, heard different feedback from other parents, but I guess we move in different social circles.

I’m not a royalist by any stretch but find it hard to get upset about this. I also find it tedious that any activity/thing someone doesn’t like is accused of being ‘tone deaf’. It’s become a really lazy phrase to throw around that has lost meaning because of it.

The DfE spending money on this is the least of our worries relative to what they and local councils waste VAST sums on. I’m a school governor and see budgets and local authority challenges (stupidity) frequently.

What volunteer/campaigning work etc. do you do to improve the situation beyond sending the book back in protest?

Well, going by people on this post saying they are getting rid of the book, there won’t be many copies of the book left in 50 years time. So, the book have some value then.

The queens jubilee was a one in a lifetime event.

@Whereswallywonka no sustainable but there are lots of ways that money could have a more positive impact on childrens lives,
injected into school breakfast clubs would be one way. Or towards art resources, or sports equipment, stationary, some nice coffee/biscuits for teachers who have been on their knees the last couple of years... I can list a million better things to spend this money on and I don't even work in a school!

Frankly I found you and the other monarchists rather depressing in your sycophantic servile attitude.

Practice curtsying. Kneel deep.

Serfs, you are serfs.

But for some people on here the only versions of anything are those which carry the 'correct' message.

Are you that woman who wears the union flag skirt suit with cardboard cutouts of Prince Charles in her living room?

Well that's hardly surprising given your attitude.

whether you appreciate the monarchy or not, it's an historical event your children have been given a souvenir of, as adults, they may hold a different opinion than you.

just pack it away for them.

I got a golden jubilee bookmark. I remember the look of rage on my dad's face

Whether or not you give a shit about the jubilee, it is an historic event.

A quick google tells me the estimated boost to the economy was £1.6 billion for the BH holiday weekend with increased spending and tourism. The books cost £12 million. Does that make it worse or better for you?

Monarchists always get so terribly defensive don’t they?

If I've understood this correctly, it's not your book to send back. It's your son's. YABU.

Personally I'm looking forward to seeing some poor sap on Dickinson's Real Deal twenty years hence, his capital city long sold to Ukrainian oligarchs and his citizenship plundered by the same government that gave him this book, desperately arguing that it's emblematic of his personal stake in the glory that is England (Scotland, Wales and Ireland having gone their separate ways some time since) and more pressingly if they do give him two quid for it he could afford to get a Freddo for his grandchildren to share at Xmas.

The difference being those tourists came of their own free will, people spent because they had a long weekend. That book was given out whether you wanted it or not.

I think YABU- it's not yours to send back. It's your DC. They may want it when they are older to pas down to their children.

There’s horrific famine in Afghanistan and Yemen, war in Ukraine, in India there isn’t cancer care for a kid unless you can afford it, so you have to just leave the hospital and wait for your child to die… I couldn’t get worked up about this. It’s just a book.

Monarchists may be defensive but history shows very well how republicans are fanatics.

Yes, because a monarchist would call the book tedious?

You ok hun? Maybe you should go back to primary and learn to read. I hear they have some lovely new books.

This thread is like those threads where people start complaining about their kids doing Assembly or RE!
Unless you have just arrived in the Country you too will have received a gift for a Jubilee, taken part in. Christmas play, made Easter hats, if you have been through all that 'indoctrination' yourself & managed to come through the system with an ounce of independent thought why are you so frightened that your kids won't!

I just find it bafflingly!