Duke of Edinburgh has died

Nice to see Jeremy Corbyn leaving aside his anti-royal feelings he would rather tweet about celebrating an election in Bolivia than comment on the D. of E.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Nice to see Jeremy Corbyn leaving aside his anti-royal feelings he would rather tweet about celebrating an election in Bolivia than comment on the D. of E.

Probably prefers to celebrate democracy rather than an imposed monarchy that drains us of millions. Please don't mention tourism.......

Quoted from smokey111

Please don't mention tourism.......

Absolutely right.
We can’t have two sides to the argument now can we.
Clearly it’s only your view that counts and no others should be considered at all.

FFS

People on the right moaning about lefties bringing politics into it, whilst bringing politics into it. Absolutely no need to bring a former leader of a political party, who held no government office into it. If he did say anything about the D of E’s death, you wouldn’t like it anyway.

Remove the log in your own eye before trying to remove the speck from your neighbour’s eye and all that.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Absolutely right.
We can’t have two sides to the argument now can we.
Clearly it’s only your view that counts and no others should be considered at all.

FFS

Loosen your top button. It was a preempted referral to the go to stance of keeping the monarchy. I am more than happy to discuss why you feel the monarchy should be retained. I think my reference to democracy shows that I would welcome debate. If you can gather up your toys and disinfect your dummy before we proceed......

Quoted from Teesknees

It'll be interesting to see which 30 people get picked to go to the funeral!

Michael Ball ** will definitely be there. He’s like the grim reaper, stalking people in their final days, like nutrients being leached from fluvial soil.


** the ‘singer’, not the ex-City, Everton and England (!) left back.

The Duke hasn't been dead for 24 hours yet and some are poking fun. There's a time for everything and today our thoughts should be for her Majesty The Queen in her time of grieve.

At her age, I sincerely hope that she can cope with her sad loss.

Quoted from DB

The Duke hasn't been dead for 24 hours yet and some are poking fun. There's a time for everything and today our thoughts should be for her Majesty The Queen in her time of grieve.

At her age, I sincerely hope that she can cope with her sad loss.

I am sad for an old woman who has lost her husband. Also, for the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

However, I will not be drawn into the inevitable hysteria for the passing of a man who has led an extremely privileged life of luxury at our expense.

The last year has seen thousands die alone and impoverished.

We will now endure several days of blanket media coverage and the glossing over of his unsavoury views as eccentric and quirky.

I would much rather see the celebration of the thousands of unrecognised heroes of the last 14 months.

Arryarryarry introduced the topic of politics to this thread.

I find patriotism and nationalism to be very weird and often dangerous and nasty traits that very seldom lead to anything positive. But, each to their own, personally I was more bothered when Bowie and Bill Withers died.

Quoted from smokey111

I am sad for an old woman who has lost her husband. Also, for the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

However, I will not be drawn into the inevitable hysteria for the passing of a man who has led an extremely privileged life of luxury at our expense.

The last year has seen thousands die alone and impoverished.

We will now endure several days of blanket media coverage and the glossing over of his unsavoury views as eccentric and quirky.

I would much rather see the celebration of the thousands of unrecognised heroes of the last 14 months.

Arryarryarry introduced the topic of politics to this thread.

So give politics a rest for 24 hours. It's not a matter of blue or red but respect for the dead.