As world leaders gather the papers at the end of the era – politicalbetting.com
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https://twitter.com/DCMS/status/1571615372758876161
I mean, I'm happy to commemorate the life of The Queen and respect that her passing is an important moment but I don't feel sad that a 96 year old woman dies peacefully having been until recently in good health and of sound mind.
The war in Ukraine makes me feel sad. The way many people are going to struggle this winter here in the UK makes me feel sad.
Those trainers..
Do not forget
That it is not he, or she, or them or it,
That you belong to.
"Everyone is asked their opinion about every detail in order to prevent them from forming one about the totality".
happy to talk to you about it too you wont like it all
But no prospect of your ideas every being implemented, I'm afraid.
"descend" has a strong hint of condescension. Photo is dire.
I guess the duty editor on a sunday night is a republican.
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The live stream of the lying in state on the iPlayer offers you the chance to restart the programme 🫠
Doing utterly ridiculous stuff with a straight face and an attitude that suggests "What on earth do you mean when you say I'm taking the p*ss?" might be quite a cool satirical artistic choice at the moment.
Perhaps a Frank-N-Furter character has joined the queue already?
Does "Iustum Necar Reges Impios" count as a "faith" thing that the king will "promote"? Asking for a friend.
Who could possibly have imagined that?
The rest of his outfit though!
See bottom for link to order of service:
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/order-of-service-for-the-state-funeral-published
We've got:
President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
Representative of the Baha'i Community
Representative of the Jain Community
Representative of the Zoroastrian Community
Representative of the Buddhist Community
Representative of the Sikh Community
General Secretary of the Hindu Council UK
Interfaith Co-ordinator, Al-Khoei Foundation
A Muslim Scholar; and
Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
Any surprising omissions?
It is good they've included the words to two verses of God Save the King, because lord knows I didn't know the second.
Looks like little Groge is going to be in the procession.
The speech is utterly deranged and also utterly cynical on Putin levels. Apparently only he can save America from "the tyrants" who want to destroy it.
Neo-fascists bollocks and sadly looking like the next POTUS.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1571310011548323842
Hope he and the guy with the Sash (that his grandfather wore before?) didn't get into a fist fight outside (or inside!) the hall.
"Raise you right hand in the air ; American will have a rebirth of liberty".
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1571567482049298432
At least treat them that way when they hit you up for a free beer. But just one.
They won't black out the whole page. That would lose them $$$.
No pagans.
No Free Church of Scotland (Continuing or otherwise). The only representatives of "the churches of Scotland" are from the CoS, the Episcopalians, and the Roman Catholic church.
No Sephardim.
No Mormons.
No Jehovah's Witnesses.
No Ahmadiyya Muslims.
as to wiccans well a religon cobbled together by a civil servant called gerald gardiner in 1956
Almost as much as his regret, when the Union and Confederacy both ignored his Order that the Cease and Desist immediate from waging the Civil War. IIRC he wrote to Queen Victoria, proposing that the two trans-Atlantic English-speaking monarchs made a joint appeal for peace. Sadly, Emperor Norton never received a reply, which he himself ascribed, not to Her Majesty's rudeness, but rather the habitual inefficiency of her courtiers.
Probably true but a man of signifigance who probably did more good than bad so I take my hat off and salute joshua norton
And he could have invited "the unknown pagan", given it's the Abbey.
For example, one of the problems with the UK's First Past the Post is that it is difficult for minority views to gain a foothold against entrenched parties. I think the UK might have avoided getting in so deep with the EU if there was an opportunity for a Eurosceptic party to gain seats. There is also the problem, which the US has right now, where in many constituencies gaining your party's nomination is much more important than gaining the broad support of your electorate.
On the other hand, single member FPTP constituencies bring with them a direct local link between representatives and voters.
At the absolute other end of the spectrum, with Party List PR, the problem you have is that not only in the local link severed, but the power to choose individual representatives is taken out of the hands of voters and handed to party bosses. Against that: if enough people care about animal welfare to get an animal welfare party into Parliament, well that's OK.
The older I get, the more attracted I get to small constituency, multi-member STV: it retains local representation, while allowing voters to choose which of (for example) the three Conservative candidates is elected. And by having relatively small constituencies, it means that majorities - while slightly less rare than under FPTP - are far from impossible. It also allows popular independents a decent shot.
No Daoists.
No Spiritualists or Spiritists.
No manbos or oungans.
It's your disdain for your fellow man that makes you a misanthrope.
Ultimately, the question is which do you find worse for democracy: an elected body that might have wildly disproportional results? Or an elected body where coalitions are more likely?
Neither is perfect.
It's a shame the grownups in the US Republican party didn't vote to convict him at his second impeachment trial. Or Pence could have Article 25'd him. Those Secret Service guys probably wish now they'd let him go to the Capitol on J6. If they had, his actions may well have killed a few hundred or a few thousand more people, but in the end he would have smashed against a brick wall and that would have been the last that was heard of him. Now, who knows, maybe it'll be a few million people. The guy is seriously mental and now he's got an even bigger grievance.
Yes he'll run again if he's not stopped, and if he does run he may win. He's even more "I'll show you motherf*****s" than he was before. If he does win, he'll cause big trouble. And this is all f***ing obvious right now.
Riiight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHl5-tyQxKc
(Love Divine is number 10, from stall 3, near the camera and close to the front from the start.)
The only way to know if it would work for us would be to give it a try. However as it would effectively strip our political class of much of their power I won't hold my breath.
@DuraAce is probably in respiratory arrest