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Did I hear right on the news?

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Ryoko · 12/04/2011 16:38

That a Anti-Royal Wedding street party has been refused permission to go ahead?

I'm sorry but I thought this was a democratic country now, freedom of expression and so fore, theres way too much crap about this over priced wedding and stupid street parties why shouldn't us anti- royal people be allowed to have street parties to counter the royal ones, last time I checked we out numbered the royalists.

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BeaMoaning · 12/04/2011 16:40

Well that's life. What are you getting so worked up about?

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Ryoko · 12/04/2011 16:41

Double standards thats what, say we have freedoms but then refuse us our right to express them.

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Kirisox · 12/04/2011 16:42

It can go ahead, but the road closure was refused

southeastastra · 12/04/2011 16:43

if they feel that strongly about it, they should just go to work like a normal day

meditrina · 12/04/2011 16:49

Yes, but you only heard half the story: the street closure wasn't granted because the shops along it thought any closure would be bad for trade. The anti-party organisers were invited to come back with a different site (ie not a shopping street) but have so far not done so.

conculainey · 12/04/2011 17:04

Ryoko, welcome to my world. Living in N.I we are not permitted to have a party, demonstration, protest, charity run or even a motorcycle /car rally without first getting permission from the parades commission who will normally disallow 95% of all the events, most people in Britian probably have never heard of the PC. We lost our village gala week a few years ago as the parades commission deemed the annual event as an illegal gathering (lots of old folk selling buns and cakes, kids having fun and a vintage motorcycle/car display with all the monies going to improve the village with flowers, hanging baskets and kids play areas).

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Ryoko · 12/04/2011 17:13

wel thats not making a stand thats ignoring it, hardly the same thing, I think to ignore it I'll be spending a day in doors with the TV off.

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Avantia · 12/04/2011 17:23

but hey take the Bank holiday anyway eh ? Hmm

southeastastra · 12/04/2011 17:25

it isn't ignoring it though it's making a positive stand by shunning the bank holiday, better than a naff anti-royal party.

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Ryoko · 12/04/2011 17:44

Makes no difference to me I don't work.

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onagar · 12/04/2011 18:07

In this case it looks as though there was a reason to refuse, but I think it might have been disallowed anyway. This is not entirely a democracy. It's a monarchy with the queen and the church and a handful of Lords having rights above the government that we elect.

As for the couple getting married I've nothing against them - I wish them all the best as I would any couple, but I can't imagine why anyone outside their family/friends could be interested in their wedding.

I can understand I suppose why someone would want to be rich and have people swoon when they pass by. It's the swooners that worry me. What do they get out of it?

Avantia · 12/04/2011 20:08

If you are Anti Royal why have a 'stupid' (as you call it) street party at all ? You are just fuelling all the 'commercial hype' that will be about .

Just carry on as normal but I am sure you will take a peak at the TV at some stage Grin

I for one am looking forward to watching it - no street party unfortunately as we live on a main road .

meditrina · 29/04/2011 20:28

As a PS to this thread, the republican street party did take place today, in A different venue - Red Lion Square.

Anyone go?

Alibabaandthe80nappies · 29/04/2011 20:30

meditrina - I saw that just now. They looked a bunch of boring buggers who were having no fun Grin

Chil1234 · 29/04/2011 22:05

Having seen the thousands gathered in London I think any 'anti' protests trying to spoil anyone's day would have resulted in serious injury.... to the 'anti protesters' that is. :) BTW I think the assertion that republicans outnumber monarchists is way out of date.

meditrina · 29/04/2011 22:11

Chil: BBC reported earlier today that opinion polls show consistently that 80% of the population is in favour of the Monarchy (higher than I though, but exactly what they said) so, allowing for "don't knows", republicans are under 20%.

SalmeMurrikAgain · 29/04/2011 22:30

Just because I'm in a minority, that doesn't make me wrong.

I went on an anti-monarchy street-theatre event on the day Buckingham Palace opened to the public in 1993, when I was 17, and I got mauled by a pack of rabid pensioners waiting in the queue. They dragged me into the crash barriers, and I remember one old gentleman shouting "We want monarchy, not anarchy!"

Ah well, each to their own, but there's only one version of "God Save the Queen" in my home, and that's how it'll always be Wink

www.republic.org.uk

hmc · 29/04/2011 22:35

"Just because I'm in a minority, that doesn't make me wrong."

Well quite, afaic majority thinking and popular culture often = lowest common denominator!

Chil1234 · 30/04/2011 06:43

"..I got mauled by a pack of rabid pensioners...." Which means that if the police took preemptive action yesterday, they probably made the right call. Like the idiots that shouted anti army chants at a remembrance service found, there's a time and a place to make a protest. Otherwise, it's a serious threat to public order.

KnittingRocks · 30/04/2011 07:53

The police didn't stop the protest party, there was no threat to public order and the royal couple would have been entirely unware of it so wasn't spoiling anyone's day.

We live in a democracy and we have every right to put forward an alternative view. There was even a card for the couple which pointed out that those there wished them every happiness but would continue to campaign for the end of a completely indefensible hereditary monarchy.

As for those who say Republicans should have gone to work, what total nonsense. My taxes paid for the wedding, the very least I am entitled to enjoy is a day off!

sakura · 30/04/2011 07:57

I'm pretty shocked to hear this TBH, but when I think about it, I shouldn't be.

The UK has been going in this direction for a while. Look at the way The Woman We Cannot Name tried to close down mumsnet with the help of her ten lawyers simply because the women on here didn't like her baby Guru book (and with good reason too).

Freedom of speech is truly dead.

shmoz · 30/04/2011 08:15

chil ''I went on an anti-monarchy street-theatre event on the day Buckingham Palace opened to the public in 1993, when I was 17, and I got mauled by a pack of rabid pensioners waiting in the queue.''

My weak pelvic floor nearly let me down reading this!! [cgrin] I have this vision of a group of spotty teenagers dressed like Vyvyan from the young ones being chased and beaten up by a gang of pensioners wielding umbrellas, handbags and rolled up newspapers.

Brilliant. And good on 'em!!!

Will be chuckling about this all morning, nice one!

meditrina · 30/04/2011 09:22

Sakura - why are you shocked?

The party went ahead. They expressed themselves freely.

And the eventual venue, Red Lion Square, is much nicer than the shopping street they first proposed.

sakura · 30/04/2011 09:51

I was shocked because the first post stated

"That a Anti-Royal Wedding street party has been refused permission to go ahead"

which is pretty shocking.

If it had stated "An Anti- Royal wedding street party has been forced to change locations" I wouldn't have been shocked

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