^^^^^I didn’t say that the overseas news press hadn’t published articles on the queue, more that a spot check as at lunchtime today didn’t show anything on their webpages.
Still plenty of coverage, but the ad-nauseam coverage of the queue from the British press is not replicated overseas.
imaginary 'honest' pep talk by her Ma'' Now pay your respects young Darcey and don't you worry your pretty head about the 12 million SHE paid to get her nonce son off, and remember all little girls deserve to be treated like a Princess...unless it's the Queen's favourite son ''
Lunatics...extraordinary cognitive dissonance, selective memory.
I'm on the side of the group that thinks this could have been organised, TYOOL 2022, in a way that wouldn't require mourners to stand for 24 hours. Maybe timeslots with an online application, linked to passport number (given a lack of national ID card.) Maybe have a funeral cortege travel a long distance through the city to allow people to see the late monarch.
Given the different ways that this could have been done, I can't help feeling that "the performative theatre of suffering and mourning is the point", as I read earlier today.
I'm not denigrating those who choose to mourn, of course. I'm suggesting that this could have been done in such a way that didn't demand a public physical trial to prove one's devotion.
ah but the more they suffer, the more it shows how much they care, greater respect portion paid therefore higher personal virtue, see already the manifestation of extra respect for that inky plum Beckham for queueing like a normal...In years to come there'll be folk humblebragging they queued for weeks to pay their respects, thru snow and tornados with nowt but a single slice of kendall mint cake to see them through.
If Danny Dyer turns up, is he entitled to a queue busting pass?
I’m not so sure, what are the estimates, 750k to 1m people will view the lying in state, not all from the UK, from a population of 65m. Also, generally all coverage is going to those in support of the monarchy, I suspect there are many more that don’t support it. Personally I’m more ‘live and let live’ if people want to queue 24 hours it has no impact on me whatsoever.
The London ambulance service have said they have cared for 710 people along the lying-in-state queuing route since Wednesday, with 81 people taken to hospital.
The service said it treated 291 patients on Wednesday, of whom 17 were taken to hospital, 144 patients on Thursday, of whom 25 were taken to hospital, and 275 patients on Friday, of whom 39 were taken to hospital.
The majority of the incidents were faints and collapses, which resulted in head injuries, the service said.
I think the queuing system is fantastic all things considered. In fairness no one could have imagined the queen would die one day and there was no way to plan this in advance.
Jesus, they've been planning the queue for 10 years….WOW
Knighthood for Prof Keith Still
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If the wee lassie's experience was ruined by what happened then it is only fair that she should be taken back in.
https://news.sky.com/story/second-ha...-ebay-12699578
Just glad I have a "gold" wrist band or like my wife and I called it "shit brown" 🤣
This Morning has broke cover.
Who would have thought that the press had special access? Lolz.
Surely it is all about personal mourning and the Royal machine is not favouring the press over those standing in the queue for 24 hours?
Yeah right. What BS. Surprising (not) that the royal PR team have kept silent on this.
Just stinks but to be expected from the royal PR spin machine.
This Morning presenters 'did not jump queue' say show
ITV show This Morning has said its presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby did not “jump the queue” for the Queen’s lying in state and were there to report on the event as media.
The pair have received criticism from some on social media after they appeared inside Westminster Hall without having taken part in the queue.
A statement shared on a story on the programme’s Instagram account said: “Hello everyone, we would like to clarify something. We asked Phillip and Holly to be part of a film for this Tuesday’s programme.
“They did not jump the queue, have VIP access or file past the Queen lying in state – but instead were there in a professional capacity as part of the world’s media to report on the event.”
It seems pretty simple to me. All anyone had to do to pay their respects was wait patiently for far, far longer than we are used to doing. Why isn't the ability to wait patiently a perfectly good selection criteria? Given the nature of the event, it seems entirely appropriate, even metaphorical, that prospective mourners have to behave like pilgrims to get there.
I may be wrong, but 81 hospitalisations per million people sounds pretty good odds to me and I'll bet that the wristbands on ebay are mostly from folks who waited long enough to get a wristband then nipped home.
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Somewhat amusingly, the only ones complaining about the queue are those who didn't join it.
Collective virtue-signalling perhaps?
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Thoughts are with the regular civilians who have had hospital appointments cancelled today.
But that’s the pecking order I guess. Privileged elite trumps all of us I guess. You either support it or you don’t.
The queen's queue has lots of "e"s in it, two "u"s, one "n", one "s", and two "q"s. One "q" seems to have been jumped!
Despite being a lifelong Republican I joined the queue. Apparently I joined the wrong one. There was a consolation though, I got a Moonswatch Neptune from the Swatch store.
All the people desperately trying to having a dig at the Queen. While trying desperately to look like they're not having a dig at the Queen. Yeah course.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
ahem, Ponce Andrew an actual sweaty nonce Prince of the blood and poor cuckolded Tampon Charlie, recently retired royal bagman ad formerly chummy with Sir Jimmy Savile, so much class, nobility and regal, why it brings tears to ones eyes.
Might add Harry spilling his guts to the world on Oprah as well...shoulda known better than airing ones dirty laundry in public, I don't claim to know the Queen, never even met her, but I imagine she was mortified being from the generation she was.
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Culture Secretary estimates 250,000 queued to see the coffin they carried her off in, but was unwilling to put an estimate on what it might have cost the nation,
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-says-minister
Could this be a considerable underestimate, I thought someone said it was a million...and if it were only 250k, how come sometimes it took up to 17 hours...
0.37% of the U.K. population.
Or 1 in ever 270 people.