This data came out from YouGov this afternoon:
The overall ratios are fascinating. Only a third of the population are really interested in the royal wedding coronation.
There can be no surprise that those over 65 are most interested.
Nor come to that, is there much surprise that those under 50 are really not that bothered at all.
It looks like the royal family has been rumbled as the eugenic side show that it really is.
It is time we moved on.
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Robert Maxwell in his Roller with the missus on the way to the Albert Hall to see a concert with Mrs Queenie, Maxwell stops the Roller and says he’s going back to the office, Betty his wife says “what on earth shall I tell the Queen” – “tell her I’m busy”…………..(he spent the evening getting pissed with his bankers).
I will be busy when Mr Windsor gets baubles, gee gaws & such like – I hope it makes him happy that said, most of the Windsor family most of the time have faces either like a smacked arse or as if their pet cat has just died.
I remember being on a canal holiday in in 1981. One morning we rose, slipped the lines and chugged towards the canalside pub that was to be our lunch stop. The banks were heaving with fishermen – far more than we’d ever seen before in years of cruising..
“Why is this such a great place to fish?” I asked.
“It isn’t” was the terse reply.
“Then why fish here?”
“Would you want to watch the bl**** Royal Wedding all day?”
🙂
I went for a walk in the Surry hills that day
I remember great weather
And that is exactly what I intend to do on May 6th Richard. Which, coincidentally, happens to be the big six-zero birthday for yours truly. I hope for good companionship, good weather, and good beer at pubs that aren’t showing the bloody thing or if they are, aren’t crowded with silly people who actually think this matters.
It’s what I did on the last Royal Wedding…..and look how that’s turned out for the monarchy. Encouraging to see then that nearly 2/3 of the populace aren’t really interested. Maybe they have got better things to think about like a steadily worsening NHS, inflation, climate change, rivers and seas full of shit.
I think so….
We’re so lucky having the Surrey hills on our doorstep. Leith hill the Highest point between here and the Urals . Holmbury hill a Neolithic settlement before the Romans came 50-150bc , and pitch hill.
I have noticed that not many shops are selling coronation paraphenalia. And most of that looks like a hangover from the Queen’s funeral. Normally, Supermarkets would be on top of this with deals and flag waving by now. Barely a ripple from them.
To slightly paraphrase Rhett Butler, “Frankly my liege, I don’t give a damn”.
Now you say it, I have seen precisely nothing
But I am not a great buyer of tat
Same here now that I think about it. Good. Of course the pathetic right wing press will be full of it as will, sadly, the poor old Beeb under pressure from this vile government.
Just had an email from Rymans showing me all the tat I can buy for the big day.
I’ve unsubscribed.
🙂
I recall as a child, visiting France for our annual family holiday one year. We set out to catch the ferry in the early hours, and of necessity had to drive through central London. My father was at the wheel and my mother map reading. There were many roads blocked off, and progress was very much impeded. We ended up in a side street, about 0200 with my parents rowing about how to proceed. A police car approached, 2 officers came to the car and asked our intentions. My father explained. They derisively asked how on earth we intended to navigate through the capital when Charles was marrying Diana only hours later on. They got back in the car, put the blue lights on, and escorted us to the Dartford tunnel at high speed. I won’t be watching the coronation. I live in a very (very!) safe conservative seat and have seen no items for sale relating to it. Sorry for a long post.
Charles and Diana were married on my husband’s birthday, so we went fishing on the River Nene.
I make that 64% of those surveyed who fundamentally don’t care (I am in the 29%, and consider the 35% on my side but less so). I expect to be out walking when the coverage is at its height and will doubtless have lots of photos to edit when I get back.
I am not interested in the event for what it means. I do like seeing all the sparkly jewellery though, and as I am unlikely to ever go see it in the Tower, I might watch a bit to see all the glitz. I’m a bit of a magpie
It’s a bit of theatre more than anything else. I did think the whole announcement of Charles becoming King was a rush job though – who were they afraid of coming in to snatch the crown from him?
I didn’t see Charles and Di get married, I spent the day with my boyfriend. I thought she was too young, there was something very off about the whole thing and oh how I hate having been proved right. What a mess that whole day led to
True
And she was much too young
But they insisted he have a virgin bride and by 1981 they were in short supply
“Only” a third! But a third is a majority in our malfunctioning democracy. Enough for a landslide in parliamentary elections and enough for Brexit.
Not so in Scotland apparently which is a mixed blessing as yet. To paraphrase LP Hartley, Scotland is a foreign country they do things differently there.
A.U.O.B march for Independence. Glasgow, 6th, ,May, 2023.
The Zoe Williams piece in the Guardian the other day was joyfully naughty:
‘Mark Bolland, formerly Charles’s deputy private secretary, in a rare moment of household openness, once said a relative of Camilla had called her “the laziest woman to have been born in England in the 20th century”. ‘
Apparently she left school with one ‘O’ Level. When you consider how far she has got and compare that to the GCSE and A level meat grinder our children are subjected to…………phew! Kind of reinforces your point!
If anyone wants to take a look:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/13/unseen-camilla-the-five-ages-of-a-future-queen-from-mistress-to-monarchy
I care about it a great deal – in the sense that I think the whole thing is a ridiculous waste of money and that hereditary monarchy is an aberration that should be consigned to history.
We should be revolting on the streets, not celebrating the continued serfdom we are subjected to! That we are not I care about a great deal.
I personally see something that looks rather like it is probably a “normal distribution”.
I will never forget the single paragraph story at the bottom of a page of the Morning Star in 1973 which said:
“Traffic in Central London was disrupted yesterday due to the wedding of Anne Windsor to Mark Phillips.”
Very good
I seem to remember that in 1981 they did something similar