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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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meditrina · 30/04/2011 10:05

I think it's been pretty clear that the OP was based on incomplete information.

The party even briefly made an evening news broadcast.

SalmeMurrikAgain · 30/04/2011 11:37

shmoz, thank you - humour and fun is all part of the republican service For the record, we tried to dress appropriately for the occasion. We all had nice gold paper crowns, available gratis from a certain high street fast-food emporium at the time, and some of us were sporting "Abolish the Monarchy"t-shirts with a Warhol-style image of the Queen's head in a fetching bright blue colour (it was too hot to wear my heavy heavy revolution duffle in the London summertime, anyway).

I don't think the Met really thought we were much of a threat to public order, perhaps because we were just kids, really. At any rate, they didn't arrest us. Frankly though, when is 'the time and the place' for the republican alternative, if not on such days of pomp and circumstance? Wanting a fairer society and an elected and accountable head of state does not make us the equivalent of Al-Mujaharoun, and if you think it does perhaps you should consider taking a 'chil pill' (sic), to use the parlance of my youth.

Monarchists should take heart, anyway. The Royal Family has been taking the piss for much longer and much more effectively than I ever could. [csmile]

KnittingRocks · 30/04/2011 12:57

salme!

meditrina · 30/04/2011 13:04

Salme: the bit they showed on the news did look like a good party!

And of course it was the right time to hold it.

KnittingRocks · 30/04/2011 17:46

Which news channel was it on? I saw it on The One Show but couldn't stomach the news!

meditrina · 30/04/2011 17:51

I can't remember! They all look alike after a while, and I was flicking between BBC, ITV and SKY all day yesterday!

aliceliddell · 30/04/2011 17:59

There were some gay anti-cuts people moved on from Soho in case they 'upset' the monarchists, and some peoople arrested in Brocklery for planning republican street theatre. Did somebody mention democracy? Freedom of speech?

hmc · 30/04/2011 18:04

Arrested?!?! - bloody hell!

tiredemma · 30/04/2011 18:08

"we want Monarchy, not Anarchy!". LOVE IT. Going to get it printed on a t-shirt.

mayorquimby · 30/04/2011 19:28

"Freedom of speech?"

Well in fairness freedom of speech has only ever been an american principle. No european country has freedom of speech or ever has had.
We do have article 10 rights to freedom of expression but they are subject to restrictions where prescribed by law.

aliceliddell · 30/04/2011 19:52

Good point, MayorQuimby. This is exactly the type of discussion we should be having about the precise nature of the civil liberties/'rights' we actually have, rather than presume we have, in this system of government. Countries with a history of revolutionary change often have a codified written constitution in order to make these issues clear.

KnittingRocks · 30/04/2011 19:52

Go ahead tiredemma, but it's bollocks - the Republic aren't campaigning for anarchy, they're campaigning for democracy.

I find it depressing in the extreme that there are still so many people prepared to defend the indefensible.

Ho hum . . . .

tiredemma · 30/04/2011 20:36

knittingrocks- not arsed about the whole Republican/Royalist argument tbh, just thought it was a funny phrase for an OAP to use.

You dont have to get 'depressed' about it.

mayorquimby · 30/04/2011 20:40

"the Republic aren't campaigning for anarchy, they're campaigning for democracy."

On an unrelated side-note I did very much enjoy the protestors who displayed anarchist symbols while marched on certain businesses to demand they pay MORE TAXES.

FFS talk about a mixed message

mayorquimby · 30/04/2011 20:40

*while they marched

KnittingRocks · 30/04/2011 20:57

I'm not depressed about your choice of t-shirt, I'm depressed about the no of people on here who think that the royal family are wonderful and a great idea, etc.

I can picture exactly the kind of OAP who would behave in the way described - I naively thought that the younger generation would have moved on from the forelock-tugging sycophancy of their elders.

Clearly not.

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