Some good proposals from Truss on the energy bills cap anyway
Seriously?
“We are proud to unveil our crisis plan!” “How much does it cost?” “Dunno.”
They can’t tell us how much it costs? That is the definition of a disgrace. 🙂
This week has been a shambles for the Tories. At the first PMQ question from Starmer, Truss fell down a trap. And now big plan is so half baked there hasn’t been any costs put on it?
I dislike the policy (many of us don’t need the bung) but that’s a bit of a silly criticism. The public doesn’t need to know the cost. The public just needs to know there’s going to be a freeze. Tbh business doesn’t need much more info either so long as the energy market starts to prepare.
I think MPs are entitled to be want to know. However, the bleak news today puts that to one side. Best wishes to Jonathan and Mrs too.
The most famous woman in the world might be entering the final stage of her life. It's a huge deal but she's 96, there should be no surprise at any decline at that age.
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
Bleak's not really the word I'd choose for the natural end of a long and healthy life.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
Pulled by Flying Scotsman, Mallard or a Deltic. Would be beautiful. Thoughts with HMQ and her family today, feeling very sombre.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
From the famous Guardian piece a few years back:
”The most elaborate plans are for what happens if she passes away at Balmoral, where she spends three months of the year. This will trigger an initial wave of Scottish ritual. First, the Queen’s body will lie at rest in her smallest palace, at Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, where she is traditionally guarded by the Royal Company of Archers, who wear eagle feathers in their bonnets. Then the coffin will be carried up the Royal Mile to St Giles’s cathedral, for a service of reception, before being put on board the Royal Train at Waverley station for a sad progress down the east coast mainline. Crowds are expected at level crossings and on station platforms the length of the country – from Musselburgh and Thirsk in the north, to Peterborough and Hatfield in the south – to throw flowers on the passing train. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
Bleak's not really the word I'd choose for the natural end of a long and healthy life.
Yes I’ve had a few relatives go at this age. It’s an odd mix of emotions. Hard to describe. The key one should be thankfulness and celebration of who they were.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
Pulled by Flying Scotsman, Mallard or a Deltic. Would be beautiful. Thoughts with HMQ and her family today, feeling very sombre.
They practice doing it by road every year. All junctions blocked. All the way. Its routine for Police Scotland.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
Pulled by Flying Scotsman, Mallard or a Deltic. Would be beautiful. Thoughts with HMQ and her family today, feeling very sombre.
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
Bleak's not really the word I'd choose for the natural end of a long and healthy life.
Yes, that must be remembered.
No, this is bleak. She’s more than just a granny and a mum. She’s the Queen. She’s our history embodied, going back to world war 2
It will be a bleak time of grieving, strangeness and instability
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
From the famous Guardian piece a few years back:
”The most elaborate plans are for what happens if she passes away at Balmoral, where she spends three months of the year. This will trigger an initial wave of Scottish ritual. First, the Queen’s body will lie at rest in her smallest palace, at Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, where she is traditionally guarded by the Royal Company of Archers, who wear eagle feathers in their bonnets. Then the coffin will be carried up the Royal Mile to St Giles’s cathedral, for a service of reception, before being put on board the Royal Train at Waverley station for a sad progress down the east coast mainline. Crowds are expected at level crossings and on station platforms the length of the country – from Musselburgh and Thirsk in the north, to Peterborough and Hatfield in the south – to throw flowers on the passing train. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
It seems at the moment like this is what she chose.
Never thought energy could be knocked off the news today. This is the only thing that could do it.
#1 and #2 1pm news headline, energy bills dropped to "in other news".
Was listening to Adrian Chiles. He's dreadful I know, but when he read the statement live, his tone changed abruptly. Almost as if he got the word halfway through reading it out.
I don’t feel very MIGHTY LEON now. Seriously don’t want the old girl to go
Boo
Its a very monumental moment. Monarchist, republican or uncertain, when she passes away something seemingly eternal will be taken from us. Like the Nation is being ripped away from under our feet and we will be left smaller, more vulnerable and terribly terribly sad. Colours will show their greyness, a long haul autumn under leaden skies with the very bleakest of winters after. Fucking grim. And i vacillate on monarchism. For some this is going to be horrific.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
Bleak's not really the word I'd choose for the natural end of a long and healthy life.
I agree. I am a practical royalist and, I think like many, have a huge amount of respect and admiration for the Queen. But she has reached a good age and has managed to stay in reasonable health until very close to the end (if this really is the end). I will find it incredibly sad and slightly unnerving as the end of an era that has covered my whole life. But I don't think it is bleak. It is the natural order of things. We all die and we can only hope that when the time comes it is as comfortable as possible - and as far away as possible from right now
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
Bone cancer is what a few people have speculated for a while.
I don’t feel very MIGHTY LEON now. Seriously don’t want the old girl to go
Boo
Its a very monumental moment. Monarchist, republican or uncertain, when she passes away something seemingly eternal will be taken from us. Like the Nation is being ripped away from under our feet and we will be left smaller, more vulnerable and terribly terribly sad. Colours will show their greyness, a long haul autumn under leaden skies with the very bleakest of winters after. Fucking grim. And i vacillate on monarchism. For some this is going to be horrific.
It took Thailand 1-2 years to get back to seeming normality after bumibhol died
At least Prince Charles - for all his faults - is not a Caligula-Esque freak like the new Thai king
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
At least the inevitable unscheduled stops could be blamed on the driver being overcome with grief. Replacement bus service not really an option though.
With all respect due to Her Majesty, hoping she is well after this event it does show she probably needs to accept a regency. Otherwise every time she doesn't go to something or has a check up it will be panicked 'is this it?' moments.
Check ups and the family being called etc will be "is this it?" moments even with a regency.
We have a de facto regency already, Charles already did the Queen's Speech etc
I said earlier this week I expect that photo of her inviting Truss to form a Government would be the final photograph of the Queen doing an official duty like that, but that was because I thought she probably had another year or two in her but she wouldn't do any more duties in that time.
But they wouldn't be going 'she didn't come to x' since there'd be no expectation of going to any.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
She also had bruises on her hands, which are most likely from cannulae. She has been receiving long term medical treatment, and the nature of this has not been disclosed. Many informed people and Leon are telling us to expect the worst.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
There was early speculation of a fall, apparently.
Never thought energy could be knocked off the news today. This is the only thing that could do it.
#1 and #2 1pm news headline, energy bills dropped to "in other news".
Was listening to Adrian Chiles. He's dreadful I know, but when he read the statement live, his tone changed abruptly. Almost as if he got the word halfway through reading it out.
Or he realised the severity of what he was reading.
A memorable time I recall similar live was when I was a teen watching the news at night on what you'd call a 'slow news day' until then when the tone changed dramatically, from previously a 'fun' news story before they announced the sports results, to breaking the news about Columbine. The presenter started reading the words but struggled to get to the end of what needed to be read.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
At least the inevitable unscheduled stops could be blamed on the driver being overcome with grief. Replacement bus service not really an option though.
I now have an image of Her Majesty's coffin being transferred to a No. 47.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
At least the inevitable unscheduled stops could be blamed on the driver being overcome with grief. Replacement bus service not really an option though.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
Pulled by Flying Scotsman, Mallard or a Deltic. Would be beautiful. Thoughts with HMQ and her family today, feeling very sombre.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
Bone cancer is what a few people have speculated for a while.
Thanks I didn’t know anything about that . It would be very weird , it’s often felt like she would always be there . I’m pretty ambivalent about the monarchy in general but do respect the Queen and the service she’s given the country and was a huge fan of Diana .
"I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
Bleak's not really the word I'd choose for the natural end of a long and healthy life.
as far away as possible from right now
Amen to that!
Mwabudike Morgan : I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
People can deteriorate quickly. People can deteriorate slowly. Such things often happen quicker than everyone expects or slower than everyone expects, or even both quicker and slower! I don’t think there’s any way of knowing quite what is or will happen without being privy to confidential medical information.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
People can deteriorate quickly. People can deteriorate slowly. Such things often happen quicker than everyone expects or slower than everyone expects, or even both quicker and slower! I don’t think there’s any way of knowing quite what is or will happen without being privy to confidential medical information.
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
Bleak's not really the word I'd choose for the natural end of a long and healthy life.
Yes I’ve had a few relatives go at this age. It’s an odd mix of emotions. Hard to describe. The key one should be thankfulness and celebration of who they were.
I think its actually a bit sadder if a relative goes in their over 90s as opposed to one in their 70s or 80s - I think its because it signals the end of an era ,a break from the past (of a family ) as they will have been the last witness to that earlier age
"I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
The most elaborate plans are for what happens if she passes away at Balmoral, where she spends three months of the year. This will trigger an initial wave of Scottish ritual. First, the Queen’s body will lie at rest in her smallest palace, at Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, where she is traditionally guarded by the Royal Company of Archers, who wear eagle feathers in their bonnets. Then the coffin will be carried up the Royal Mile to St Giles’s cathedral, for a service of reception, before being put on board the Royal Train at Waverley station for a sad progress down the east coast mainline. Crowds are expected at level crossings and on station platforms the length of the country – from Musselburgh and Thirsk in the north, to Peterborough and Hatfield in the south – to throw flowers on the passing train. (Another locomotive will follow behind, to clear debris from the tracks.) “It’s actually very complicated,” one transport official told me.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
People can deteriorate quickly. People can deteriorate slowly. Such things often happen quicker than everyone expects or slower than everyone expects, or even both quicker and slower! I don’t think there’s any way of knowing quite what is or will happen without being privy to confidential medical information.
google "facies hippocratica" and look at the photos on Tuesday.
"I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
Imperial? Better censor that footage.
Yes that was 1947. Late in the day to be saying that.
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
I will be genuinely sad. She has served us well and done her duty, as she promised, in a way that no-one could ever have anticipated.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
Without appearing flippant, I genuinely believe she was cheered to see the back of Johnson on Tuesday. He was an absolute embarrassment to our nation.
Can’t see how you go from meeting Johnson and Truss on Tuesday to being at deaths door two days later . Is there some illness that’s been there for a while and not released to the public .
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
Without appearing flippant, I genuinely believe she was cheered to see the back of Johnson on Tuesday. He was an absolute embarrassment to our nation.
Not really sure seeing the back of him is a massive upgrade on seeing the front.
“Look at her, she’s practically dancing, she’ll go on for another 20 years” - just yesterday
Has it ever occurred to you that your famed abilities of insight and foresight - famed by you if no one else - are a complete fiction? You get so much so wrong
You stared at Truss when was wearing that necklace and dress and you saw Nothing
It's not really the time, but there is a lot of hindsighting going on wrt energy.
How much increase on energy bills would have been needed ten years ago to avoid the problems we are facing today - if we were not aware of this specific issue and needed general security? Would that cost have been politically acceptable without hindsight?
(If the amount it would have cost is much less than it is coting now, I hope politicians and others learn the lessons that security is worth paying for.)
I fear the end is close. I did try to tell you. Then you dismissed my info as invented
The end might indeed be close - for a 96-yr old frail-looking woman - but no one who knew told you.
Sigh. Can’t you just accept that I got it right?
I’m not going to exult. It’s horrible. Our queen is near the end. But a very well informed person warned me this was very close and I told you all yesterday
And so it is. Whatever. You do you
Trying to make this story about you is just distasteful.
She’s not dead yet, bless her
And we were all cheerily debating this yesterday. I distinctly recall @kinabalu saying
“She looks fine, she’s probably got another 5 years in her”
Yes I'm sorry about that. And if she's now trying to prove me wrong I'll carry that weight to my grave.
Without being ghoulish the photo of her with Truss said it all, I fear. It was someone close to the end
Ah god. It’s going to be bleak
Bleak's not really the word I'd choose for the natural end of a long and healthy life.
Yes I’ve had a few relatives go at this age. It’s an odd mix of emotions. Hard to describe. The key one should be thankfulness and celebration of who they were.
I think its actually a bit sadder if a relative goes in their over 90s as opposed to one in their 70s or 80s - I think its because it signals the end of an era ,a break from the past (of a family ) as they will have been the last witness to that earlier age
This video Churchills funeral (with the queen in attendance) reminds me of this point.
I really hope she recovers, but if HMQ were to die in Scotland, that would be "interesting"
Why?
Special procedures, I think trains are involved.
There would be something entirely fitting about a funeral cortège moving down the ECML allowing people the length of the country to pay their respects.
Would be a bugger for train schedules, but it would be symbolic.
At least the inevitable unscheduled stops could be blamed on the driver being overcome with grief. Replacement bus service not really an option though.
I now have an image of Her Majesty's coffin being transferred to a No. 47.
Prediction: people who expect to feel nothing, or very little - the young, republicans, mad bitter Remainers - will find themselves unexpectedly moved. Even shaken
At the same time people who will expect to be sad or griefstruck might feel less than they anticipated
But I expect the first group to outnumber the second
Which I don't understand at all. Surely his name is Charles? The previous two were ok, apart from a tiny civil war for one and a lot of shagging and cavorting for the other.
Perhaps we could adapt word bingo to the situation with Leon contributing to Woke charities every time a threshold is reached. A sort of Bleak house as it were.
The most elaborate plans are for what happens if she passes away at Balmoral, where she spends three months of the year. This will trigger an initial wave of Scottish ritual. First, the Queen’s body will lie at rest in her smallest palace, at Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, where she is traditionally guarded by the Royal Company of Archers, who wear eagle feathers in their bonnets. Then the coffin will be carried up the Royal Mile to St Giles’s cathedral, for a service of reception, before being put on board the Royal Train at Waverley station for a sad progress down the east coast mainline. Crowds are expected at level crossings and on station platforms the length of the country – from Musselburgh and Thirsk in the north, to Peterborough and Hatfield in the south – to throw flowers on the passing train. (Another locomotive will follow behind, to clear debris from the tracks.) “It’s actually very complicated,” one transport official told me.
Earlier in the year it was mentioned that she would stay at Windsor this year, so I was little surprised she went to Balmoral.
I know she usually summers there and loves the place, but I do wonder whether she decided to die there, in part for just this sort of ceremonial. She isn't just an English Queen.
At 96, still with her marbles and in excellent health for nearly her entire life, she has had a good innings, but there is a time in life where death is welcome.
It's not really the time, but there is a lot of hindsighting going on wrt energy.
How much increase on energy bills would have been needed ten years ago to avoid the problems we are facing today - if we were not aware of this specific issue and needed general security? Would that cost have been politically acceptable without hindsight?
(If the amount it would have cost is much less than it is coting now, I hope politicians and others learn the lessons that security is worth paying for.)
There is a body of Telegraph/Mail readers who despise Meghan. One thing they attack her on is that Meghan isn’t her name. Her first name is Rachel: she switched to her middle name, Meghan, because there was already another actor with a similar name. This is, of course, a stupid reason to attack someone, but nonetheless in anti-Meghan circles, they like to go on about it. Anyway, I do wonder how the changing-your-name-proves-you’re-evil crowd will cope with Charles choosing a different regnal name.
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”The most elaborate plans are for what happens if she passes away at Balmoral, where she spends three months of the year. This will trigger an initial wave of Scottish ritual. First, the Queen’s body will lie at rest in her smallest palace, at Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, where she is traditionally guarded by the Royal Company of Archers, who wear eagle feathers in their bonnets. Then the coffin will be carried up the Royal Mile to St Giles’s cathedral, for a service of reception, before being put on board the Royal Train at Waverley station for a sad progress down the east coast mainline. Crowds are expected at level crossings and on station platforms the length of the country – from Musselburgh and Thirsk in the north, to Peterborough and Hatfield in the south – to throw flowers on the passing train.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
It will be a bleak time of grieving, strangeness and instability
Almost as if he got the word halfway through reading it out.
Fucking grim. And i vacillate on monarchism. For some this is going to be horrific.
She looked frail but quite cheery on Tuesday .
Travelled this morning.
This is the end.
I am genuinely distressed.
At least Prince Charles - for all his faults - is not a Caligula-Esque freak like the new Thai king
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
Betting PostFootball: https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2022/09/epl-and-serie-thoughts.html
Backed Bournemouth at home versus Brighton at 5, and laid Chelsea (away) versus Fulham at 1.85.
A memorable time I recall similar live was when I was a teen watching the news at night on what you'd call a 'slow news day' until then when the tone changed dramatically, from previously a 'fun' news story before they announced the sports results, to breaking the news about Columbine. The presenter started reading the words but struggled to get to the end of what needed to be read.
1) The performative 'good riddance scrounger' crowd
2) The 'you aren't grieving hard enough' crowd
This autumn of all autumns
Bleak
Mwabudike Morgan : I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice
At least we can get out there and mourn properly, vs a socially distanced funeral for 6.
Magnificent series of insights there
And it’s happened as we enter the worst winter since the war, just after a terrible plague
It’s going to be emotionally tough
I think he’ll choose George.
What a girl to get out her bed and anoint her last prime minister 2 days before the end. What a last public photo.
It’s more accurate than your ludicrous
“Look at her, she’s practically dancing, she’ll go on for another 20 years” - just yesterday
Has it ever occurred to you that your famed abilities of insight and foresight - famed by you if no one else - are a complete fiction? You get so much so wrong
You stared at Truss when was wearing that necklace and dress and you saw Nothing
How much increase on energy bills would have been needed ten years ago to avoid the problems we are facing today - if we were not aware of this specific issue and needed general security? Would that cost have been politically acceptable without hindsight?
(If the amount it would have cost is much less than it is coting now, I hope politicians and others learn the lessons that security is worth paying for.)
Just think, all the QCs you know are now KCs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lEo
At the same time people who will expect to be sad or griefstruck might feel less than they anticipated
But I expect the first group to outnumber the second
A sort of Bleak house as it were.
I know she usually summers there and loves the place, but I do wonder whether she decided to die there, in part for just this sort of ceremonial. She isn't just an English Queen.
At 96, still with her marbles and in excellent health for nearly her entire life, she has had a good innings, but there is a time in life where death is welcome.