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Coronation thread
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
You're right!
I'm afraid you've had your time and moneys worth.
You piece of shit - you told me it was £20 and that if I gave you £50 you'd get me premium access for a whole year. Now I look like a right tit.
Give me another £50 and I'll throw in a squeeze from @rimaldo
I really should have read the small print!
Anyway, God save the King and all that tripe!
Sent £100 just in case you need to do that "administration fee" thing for me again.
Haven't received it yet, will let you know if I do but meanwhile send another £100 - no make it £200 to be safe.
So within a year of living crisis and NHS on it's knees, we have spunked over 500 million on the jubilee, the Queen death where the most of the country business's were also brow beaten in to closing for a day or two and now this crowning of a new king, ffs.
Has anyone got a spare tenner? I seem to have no money left in my account.
King Charles has plenty but he wouldn’t give a peasant like you the steam off his piss.
Peasant? I'm a pigeon, dammit.
That's the dumbest looking crown of of all time surely?
Take your car down to Sandringham and ask to have it cleaned and filled with petrol.
One of my key takeaways - Penny Mordaunt is pretty fit!
Would people stop going to them if we got rid of the Royals?
Bloody hell you can't even see his head in that photo.The giant jeweled egg the pope weirs wins that category I reckon.
Jude Law made a pretty cool pope though.The giant jeweled egg the pope weirs wins that category I reckon.
Not sure why the pope would wear a carpet, but there you go.
So went to Furniture Village to query where my dining table was after two months of waiting. Shop's shut with big poster about the king or something. Cnuts. Nothing else was closed.
He’s probably balls deep in Camila right now asking her if she’s come for the King.
I know a lot of people don't want to hear it, as they held Lizzy in such high regard, but she's definitely a hotter Queen.
Some duffer was saying on the BBC news that they had taken the cost of living crisis into account and gone with a scaled down affair.
The 60p could really help to be honest.
FFS! Not Limmy as well!
They arrested volunteer "street patrol" folks, which is seemingly a joint council initiative, at 2am, because intelligence suggested rape whistles would be used during the coronation to spook horses.
I mean that's a new level of bizarre justification.
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No rape alarms but it's fine for Prince Andrew to be let loose, unsupervised.
I saw an interview with a middle-aged American woman, who'd come over for the Coronation and had been one of those waiting outside for days. She'd got a selfie with the Princess of Wales and she said it was the highlight of her whole life. I thought that was pretty astonishing (and also rather sad).
Yet again the Met Police showed us the despite it being a human right to be able to conduct Peaceful Protests, try to do that and you can get arrested.
Some of those arrested were just waiving banners and some even for taking photos with selfie sticks.
Has any conservative website picked this up yet?
I've transformed from a pretty staunch republican to a more ambivalent one over the years.
I can't get as worked up about the UK replacing a ceromonial figurehead monarch with a ceromonial figurehead elected president, as I used to. Under a parliamentary system such as ours, there is no scope for a head of state whether elected or not to be anything more than a cereomonial figurehead, as seen in Germany, India, Ireland etc., unless parliament voted to transfer significant powers away from themselves, which would never happen. How many people outside Germany, India and Ireland or without cultural ties to any of those countries could even name their presidents without looking them up? I can't imagine in my lifetime that there'll ever be sufficient (i.e. a majority opinion) clamour to replace a globally famous and iconic royal family / brand with 'more politics', especially as that additional politics would just be to elect a figurehead.
Replacing FPTP with a form of PR at general elections is an overwhelmingly more significant way to improve British democracy IMO, and and I'd argue that House of Lords reform is as well. I know that House of Lords reform would be seen as 'more politics' as well, but it's safe to say that the peers are nowhere near as iconic or popular as the royal family are !
Now if I was from / had strong ties to any of the other 14 'realms' such as Australia, Canada, Jamaica, Belize etc., where the British monarch is also the head of state, I'd certainly still be a staunch republican, and would not want a head of state from thousands of km away purely due to past colonisation. I hope that as many of those other 14 countries become republics as feasible and as soon as possible.
I can't get as worked up about the UK replacing a ceromonial figurehead monarch with a ceromonial figurehead elected president, as I used to. Under a parliamentary system such as ours, there is no scope for a head of state whether elected or not to be anything more than a cereomonial figurehead, as seen in Germany, India, Ireland etc., unless parliament voted to transfer significant powers away from themselves, which would never happen. How many people outside Germany, India and Ireland or without cultural ties to any of those countries could even name their presidents without looking them up? I can't imagine in my lifetime that there'll ever be sufficient (i.e. a majority opinion) clamour to replace a globally famous and iconic royal family / brand with 'more politics', especially as that additional politics would just be to elect a figurehead.
Replacing FPTP with a form of PR at general elections is an overwhelmingly more significant way to improve British democracy IMO, and and I'd argue that House of Lords reform is as well. I know that House of Lords reform would be seen as 'more politics' as well, but it's safe to say that the peers are nowhere near as iconic or popular as the royal family are !
Now if I was from / had strong ties to any of the other 14 'realms' such as Australia, Canada, Jamaica, Belize etc., where the British monarch is also the head of state, I'd certainly still be a staunch republican, and would not want a head of state from thousands of km away purely due to past colonisation. I hope that as many of those other 14 countries become republics as feasible and as soon as possible.
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He's joking, surely.
This bloody obsession with Penny Mordaunt is absolutely pathetic, and a perfect example of the UK (and specifically views on the Coronation) right now:
- a bunch of sexually impotent men in the media / politics salivating that she and her team made her look very elegant (although a bit too much like a wife in The Handmaid’s Tale
- they see that she looks good on the outside and suddenly conclude that she’s valid for the highest office in the country
- anyone who actually looks at the substance of her views knows that she has absolutely nothing more to add than the current shit lot of Tory leadership
- a bunch of sexually impotent men in the media / politics salivating that she and her team made her look very elegant (although a bit too much like a wife in The Handmaid’s Tale
- they see that she looks good on the outside and suddenly conclude that she’s valid for the highest office in the country
- anyone who actually looks at the substance of her views knows that she has absolutely nothing more to add than the current shit lot of Tory leadership
yeah but have you seen the tits on her?
Tbf being poised and presentable in public might be a low bar but it's more than you can say for most recent PMs...
Just thinking about being under Mordaunt's boot
