Trooping the colour booing

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AIBU to think this was well deserved?

Kate can glower at people as much as she wants but the monarchy is a rotten institution and people are getting more and more annoyed by it

This. If you don't like the Royal Family then just stay away. Fed up of people thinking they have the right to spoil others enjoyment.

Maintaining the status quo is what has happened for a very long time. People have quite rightly sought to question this at times. Why I raised the subject of the suffragettes.

I don't think the RF looked comfortable in their gilded carriages anyway, nothing to do with a protest. I feel they shouldn't have to do this - especially involving children. What I do firmly support is free expression and peaceful protest. There has been very valid questioning of Andrew by Republic and Led By Donkeys - they must be able to do this in a democracy?

The questioning of Andrew is completely different. Of course people can protest about the Royal Family if they want to but there's a time and a place. Jeering and booing at young children is such crass behavior.

Thousands of people love to go and see the Royals, it's a lovely day out, people spend money so good for businesses and everyone has a nice time. Why the need to ruin someone else's day because they don't have the same opinion as you. They're not changing anything by booing and jeering.

What's weird is that just in terms of what people might call privilege, the royal family are not really the ones that most affect regular people's lives.

Those would be billionaires in business and government.

They aren't particularly better examples of being born with a silver spoon in their mouths, there are all kinds of children born to fabulously wealthy parents around the world who will inherit not only money but political power.

They aren't particularly examples of people living a soft life, there are plenty of kids of wealthy people and celebs and such who will never work a day in their lives if they don't want to. (I always think of that stupid show with Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton which ages me, but you get the drift.)

The money that supports these people all comes from "the people" as well. But there isn't even a pretence that they owe the public service, or that they are morally obligated to stop throwing their political weight around (looking at you Bill Gates...)

Do you think kids don't get bullied in private school?

Believe me, often the way kids treat each other in such places of privilege is far, far worse than a typical grammar school.

Do you think kids don't get bullied in private school?

I never said they didn’t. Read my post for the sort of bullying George would receive at s state school. Jeering at people for being posh is cowardly and pointless but it doesn’t stop people doing it.
If you haven’t seen it on mumsnet you can’t have been around long.

Eton College boys 'booed' visiting state schoolgirls - BBC News

Wonder what the sanctions were 🙄

@MulberryBrandy you've been busy on google!
That piece of news must have made you so happy.

Inverted snobbery is equally as bad as the other kind. It stops aspiration, it impacts how people speak, for fear of being accused of trying to be something better.

"A day out to see the Royals".

Sounds like a trip to the zoo.

Each to their own.

We the public are only now finding out about all of this but our most senior politicians knew a lot of what was going on - and found it acceptable apparently.

Some of it was dug up by diligent and much to be applauded journalists but we're now finding out more thanks only to third party document dumps.

We can surmise senior politicians connived but any confirming evidence remains firmly sealed.

The convenient 65 year veto on the UK's TE documents needs to be revoked.

@celticnationsmore a day out to see pomp and circumstance and colour and pageant which is part of our British history

Stay away if it’s not your cup of tea as it’s not compulsory

But completely selfish to spoil it for those who do enjoy it.

The royal family can fuck off. They are not a great institution they are a disgrace and an embarassment to this country. I cannot belive that you seriously think we should continue to enable their shit show.

@Gallowayan But the time and place to do this is outside Parliament.

It really isn't. There is no reason that the RF should be 'protected' from legitimate protest. If I object to something, I protest so that it will be noticed by the people responsible. In this case, it's in front of the entitled idiots who think they are better than me when all they do is grift. William as King will be the death of the CoE at this rate, too.

But what about the fact that you spoil it for those who ARE in favour of the monarchy?
You are then spoiling the whole occasion and it’s so selfish.
Whether or not we have a royal family can definitely be the subject of a referendum.

That’s just your opinion. Other people feel differently. That’s called living in a civilised democracy. No need to be so rude.

I don’t think the protesters spoiled it for anyone. I completely respect their right to protest, and I see their numbers growing year on year at these events. They should not be kept away.

I think “spoiling it for everyone”is quite a childish way of looking at it. The Royal family is not like a benign pastime that some enjoy and some do not. They are emblematic of a class system that many reasonably question. They are outrageously wealthy on the back of being royal. Both Charles and William have amassed billions from related business interests duchy of Cornwall etc that arguably should be shared with the rest of us. And now we find they are subject to different rules and have covered up disgusting behaviour by one of their own ( vile Andrew) which is the icing on the cake isn’t it.

I used to be indifferent and think it was quite nice to have a royal family but now I find the whole thing quite sickening.

I don’t think the youngsters will keep them around.

Hear hear x100. My own youngsters (early 20s) and their mates find the whole RF thing utterly ridiculous. I think the unquestioning, forelock tugging, sycophantic fans are gradually dying out and it’s a very good thing.

I’d just like to add support for the Republic protests in line with what other posters have said.

There’s no vote on whether we have a monarchy, so turning out to protest in person or writing to your MP are some of the only direct ways people have to register that view — it’s not about spoiling anyone’s day out, it’s about visibility.

Worth remembering too how much of what we now know about the institution — the finances, the conduct — has only come to light because of people like Norman Baker and Andrew Lownie, who’ve spent years meticulously researching and publishing what the Palace would rather stayed hidden. Without that work, and without protest, and without Trump (who authorised the release of the Epstein files which put in the public domain info about A-MW and Mandelson AND how government officials turned a blind eye) the public conversation would be a lot thinner than it is.

But there is no referendum available at the moment. People have the right to protest and we should applaud that right.

for anyone unaware, at the Coronation, Graham Smith (Republic CEO) and his team had been liaising with the Met for months beforehand, telling them exactly where they’d be and even what their placards would say, and were given the go-ahead. On the morning itself, before they’d even started, six of them were arrested for “going equipped to lock on” — the items in question turned out to be ordinary luggage straps for carrying placards. Two more were arrested later, bringing it to eight in total. They were held for 14-16 hours and only released, without charge, after the coronation was already over, so they never got to protest at all. The Met later said they regretted it, but legal action against them is still ongoing.

They are toddlers stamping and wailing. Their booing will change nothing.