Not, I would guess, for most UK nationals though. So anyone who turns up at a mourning event or a funeral intent on protest must know they’re going to cause a lot of upset.
It’s different in many ways, I accept, but offending mourners at a funeral smells a bit like yelling at a politician’s children on their way to school. The politician might be doing bad things and protest might well be justified, but there’s a time and place for everything and that isn’t it.
They haven’t changed that much, and they are very careful to preserve their position. And tbh I’m not sure that many tourists actually expect to see the Queen, they come to see the buildings!
The royal family has intervened in laws, often before they are seen by parliament, and had them changed their favour. They are far from benign.
It’s the past, we can’t go back, we can’t make it right for those who suffered (which BTW included the overwhelming majority of our own population). We need to park the Colonial Guilt: everyone responsible, and everyone who suffered is very very dead. It would be better for both sides to move-on: portraying modern societies as victims just gives indigenous politicians get-out clauses for their own corruption and viciousness. Exhibit A: Mugabe.
Constantly forgotten. There are terrible evils in this world, but (small-‘r’) republicans are desperately tilting at windmills, playing to the shoulder-chip gallery with a queen-sized Dead Cat…
Gonna need some reasonably recent evidence for this statement.
It’s evolved in modern society, and it feels a lot like a statement which puts the spotlight on the flower-bearer, not the deceased - though I guess that’s what all mourning is: the dead are dead, and indifferent to our actions.
I would love to see Penance and Dom there booking everyone for flytipping mind
The police have some deliberately vague laws to enforce, and are in a very difficult place IMO. They’re not going to get it right every time, and will always be lambasted when they get it wrong.
Also they’re real people, so there will be some that are tolerant and considerate, and some that are actual evil fascists.