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Post by mids on Sept 9, 2022 8:08:05 GMT
These people are worthless.
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Post by flatandy on Sept 9, 2022 8:14:56 GMT
I see they’re going to make a man queen now. This woke nonsense has gone too far!
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Post by mids on Sept 9, 2022 8:18:36 GMT
King's Council. Dairy King. King's Greatest Hits. It'll all have to change.
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Sept 9, 2022 8:25:09 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Sept 9, 2022 8:25:09 GMT
I’m going to find it hard to remember the words to the national anthem.
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Post by mids on Sept 9, 2022 9:14:52 GMT
This is our country’s saddest day. In the hearts of every one of us there is an ache at the passing of our Queen, a deep and personal sense of loss — far more intense, perhaps, than we expected.
In these first grim moments since the news, I know that millions and millions of people have been pausing whatever they have been doing, to think about Queen Elizabeth, about the bright and shining light that has finally gone out.
She seemed so timeless and so wonderful that I am afraid we had come to believe, like children, that she would just go on and on.
Wave after wave of grief is rolling across the world, from Balmoral — where our thoughts are with all the Royal Family — and breaking far beyond this country and throughout that great Commonwealth of nations that she so cherished and which cherished her in return.
As is so natural with human beings, it is only when we face the reality of our loss that we truly understand what has gone. It is only really now that we grasp how much she meant for us, how much she did for us, how much she loved us.
As we think of the void she leaves, we understand the vital role she played, selflessly and calmly embodying the continuity and unity of our country.
We think of her deep wisdom, and historic understanding, and her seemingly inexhaustible but understated sense of duty. Relentless though her diary must have felt, she never once let it show, and to tens of thousands of events — great and small — she brought her smile and her warmth and her gentle humour —and for an unrivalled 70 years she spread that magic around her Kingdom.
This is our country’s saddest day because she had a unique and simple power to make us happy. That is why we loved her. That is why we grieve for Elizabeth the Great, the longest serving and in many ways the finest monarch in our history.
It was one of her best achievements that she not only modernised the constitutional monarchy, but produced an heir to her throne who will amply do justice to her legacy, and whose own sense of duty is in the best traditions of his mother and his country.
Though our voices may still be choked with sadness we can say with confidence the words not heard in this country for more than seven decades.
God Save The King.
RT HON BORIS JOHNSON MP
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Sept 9, 2022 9:17:49 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 9, 2022 9:17:49 GMT
That neatly illustrates Boris Johnson's power and appeal as a politician. Hit the spot.
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Post by mids on Sept 9, 2022 9:27:45 GMT
We're privileged to have been surrounded and still be surrounded by greatness. Windsor, Johnson, Truss, Rees-Mogg etc.
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Post by ootlg on Sept 9, 2022 10:39:58 GMT
Shame Johnson and the rest of the shysters had so few of her virtues.
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 9, 2022 11:20:04 GMT
Not everybody is a fan of the Queen and they can express that. The joys of free speech. Also some of those aren’t even “attacks” unless you are desperately sensitive. “ In The New York Times, Maya Jasanoff, a history professor at Harvard University, where she focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, said it was wrong to 'romanticize' her reign. Maya Jasanoff, a Harvard professor specializing in the history of the British Empire, said it was wrong to 'romanticize' the queen's rule +21 'The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged,' she wrote. Jasanoff highlights repression in Malaya, Kenya, Yemen, Cyprus and Ireland. 'We may never learn what the queen did or didn't know about the crimes committed in her name,' she said.” Saying “don’t romanticise her rule is not an attack”. Although people should learn to distinguish between the head of state and the PM and ruling government. Nothing wrong with this comment either: “ A writer for The Atlantic magazine, Jemele Hill, also chimed in on her Twitter account, saying journalists had a duty to cover what she called the 'devastating' impacts of Elizabeth's reign. 'Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full context, so it is entirely appropriate to examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism,' Hill wrote. ” I don’t think the Daily Heil knows what an “attack” is.
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Sept 9, 2022 11:21:57 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 9, 2022 11:21:57 GMT
That’s a fantastic story!
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Post by ootlg on Sept 9, 2022 12:17:36 GMT
Another one was about the time she went into the local post office outside Sandringham where she occasionally went to post mail. She was wearing a headscarf and a woman walked in and casually remarked how much she looked like The Queen. HM smiled and said, "How reassuring."
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Post by voice on Sept 9, 2022 15:18:42 GMT
The gammon have been exploding over any reaction that has not been utterly fawning and deferential. And I think there must be a heart attack epidemic about to happen given their poe faced reaction to any jokes about this.
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Post by mids on Sept 9, 2022 15:26:27 GMT
It's hilarious to see the utter frenzied hysteria of the left just because the fact of her death was mentioned for 4 seconds at the very end of one late night bulletin on the BBC.
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Post by happyhammerhead on Sept 9, 2022 15:32:40 GMT
They won't like the BBC News homepage then.
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Sept 9, 2022 15:36:01 GMT
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Post by mids on Sept 9, 2022 15:36:01 GMT
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Post by jimboky on Sept 9, 2022 15:40:38 GMT
best wishes to QE's family,,,,,,,,,, I've never been a fan of Monarch, however if I had to have one I would want a QE running it
I hear that all the money will now have King Charles's picture, what will happen to the old? will they expire?
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Post by jimboky on Sept 9, 2022 15:42:09 GMT
I started to use KC, but then I thought of KC and the Sunshine Band
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Post by voice on Sept 9, 2022 15:42:14 GMT
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Post by ootlg on Sept 9, 2022 15:44:14 GMT
Waste o' space, all of it. People die shockah. Let's look forward to the reign of Good King Charles.
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Sept 9, 2022 15:45:25 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 9, 2022 15:45:25 GMT
best wishes to QE's family,,,,,,,,,, I've never been a fan of Monarch, however if I had to have one I would want a QE running it I hear that all the money will now have King Charles's picture, what will happen to the old? will they expire? Nah. We were still using shillings as 5p pieces up until fairly recently. Many of those had the Queen's Dad on them.
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