Well, I hated the coronation…

[TheColourofspring]

I can see I am in the minority on here but I found yesterday to be distasteful on a gigantic scale. To watch the most privileged people travel in gold coaches & be decorated with diamonds and gold that is priceless in the face of millions of people struggling to eat/heat their homes just feels so wrong.

Our primary school has just opened a food bank. There are kids & families in crisis- children coming into school hungry & smelly as families can’t afford to wash clothes (I am not joking) - living in Dickensian conditions. Some of the teaching staff use the foodbank.

Yesterday was a display of obscene wealth. The royals didn’t even pay for it- we did. How can we find money for that absolute nonsense yet we can’t find money for large swathes of the population to feed themselves.

While Charles was sitting there in his gold costume holding these priceless items, plenty of families weren’t eating. It made me really angry.

I am tired of all the arguments for a royal family- how somehow these displays are quaint. Yesterday was an obscene display of wealth, inherited privilege and everything that’s wrong with this country. Seems a conversation about the royals is long overdue.

If coronations are such a money spinner we should have them more often. Let's set up a lottery system where everyone gets a chance to win a chance to be king once a year.

Presumably their value comes at least in part from the fact that they are pretty infrequent.

https://twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1655303532445147140

oh dear, even Charlie boy thought the whole thing was a fucking waste of time

Yeah, like the shit you get on Twatter is gospel. (massive eye roll)

Dont agree with it either op but just switched it off instead.

@polkadotdalmation its from sky news! 🙄

My family went to a coronation event today. When the band struck up God Save the King, very few people joined in. I only imagine that in 1953 everyone would have joined in with God Save the Queen.

( I may be wrong - I remember in my childhood that cinemas played the National Anthem at the end of the last performance, but they stopped because everyone started rushing towards the exits to avoid it.)

Must be right then. 🙄🙄

@Blossomtoes love how no one wants to entertain the fact that Charles is a petulant brat even with evidence

There is no evidence. Hth.

Well would you rather have Mr Putin then?

Having a royal family is an odd, quaint sort of tradition. But people were saying the same in the 30s when totalitarianism was all the rage. It was those same of quaint traditions that helped stop Britain (and its associated dominions) going the same way, as Orwell recognised.

Sure the King is rich- only in a sense, because he cannot sell the crown jewels - but so are a great many other people who, unlike the King, have no notion of public service at all. Compare the UK to the US where people genuinely do believe that all rich people got their money by hard work. Having a monarch is a useful reminder of the nonsense that is, and abolishing the monarchy won't do anything to bring about a fairer society. That's why I'm a monarchist and that's why I think republicanism is a waste of time. As a Guardian reader I've had about two months of Kevin the Teenager whining about how it's so unfair and tbh I just don't give a shit.

Do you genuinely believe that’s the only alternative? 😂

are communist dictators and ineffective royal figureheads really the only two options you’re aware of?

You do know we could have ended up with King Andrew, right?

Please explain the sequence of events that would make that credible outcome?

Not for the last 38 years we couldn’t.

Yes and Irish friend told me that at a party yesterday. His mum who lives in the UK is 102. She got a handwritten letter from the Irish President and a cheque for 2000+ Euros from the President - just a robo signed card from the late Queen. They don't spread it around ! That said a card from the Pope cost 20 Euros, and they had to tip the Vatican off !

Most bad taste comment of the year - apparently if you aren't a fan of the Royal Family you get accused of wanted a psychopathic child killing war mongering maniac instead 😂

It's classic cult behaviour though, along with the weird robes, gold carriages, pledges to live forever, and all the other usual weirdness.

It's classic cult behaviour though, along with the weird robes, gold carriages, pledges to live forever, and all the other usual weirdness

Yes definitely and using God's name in church to justify it like cults do. It's enough to make you a non believer.

It was a very political ceremony reminding us how Henry 8th seized power from the Catholic Church and invested it in himself. The Pope who was the King of Kings before whom all European monarchs must bow and pay allegiance and God's representative on earth refused to accede to Henry's demands for divorce.

Jealous of the huge wealth of a corrupt church he initiated the schism. That is why the Archbishop kneels before him and anoints him as the representative of God in the actual Abbey stolen from the Catholic Church. Next celebration bonfire night where we burn the Papist plotters.....

The ultimate laundering of the profits of crime from one mafia boss to another. Hereinafter referred to as sacred.

Jesus would be utterly appalled.....

Jesus would be utterly appalled

I think so!

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Whit? You clearly have no idea how to argue your point do you? Embarrassing.

The poster quite clearly said "just because other countries have high inequalities and heads of state does not necessary mean that would happen here." - that was the part I was responding to. They were suggesting that if the RF were to go and a head of state put in their place the UK would possibly not have inequality as they are so special and better than other countries. Typical UK exceptionalism.

As for the strong links of the Tory government to public school - why do these people keep being voted in as MPs if the country is against it? You do have a choice surely? I am well aware of the class system in the UK, but as someone living in a country where that sort of thing is considered a load of rubbish, and no-one cares where you went to school, or what your parents do, I find it all baffling that you continue to elect the same type of people, time and time again.

In all wealthy families people will benefit from wealth they didn't earn?