You got the wrong end of the stick. Ive been complaining about the monarchy. Not to worry I read posts wrong sometimes.
The uncritical way its been portrayed. For example listening to World Service on Sunday and they were talking to a Anglican bishop and he was saying what a great symbol of peace the Queen was. This goes unremarked.
I've been reading Legacy of Violence: A history of the British Empire. Half way through. One thing the British ruling class did was craft an image of its later Empire as benevolent. The monarchy played a role in this as the head of its Empire and later Commonwealth.
Apart from that I've no problem people queuing up to see the Queen in Westminster or going to line the streets for the funeral.
What I object to is having to be forced to go along with it.
Example. I had work lined up for last Monday. It cost me a lot due to the short notice Bank Holiday. I lost money I could have made and Im now doing a four day week. I really didn't need this. The company I was going to work for had to reschedule their event at short notice. I expect a lot of people and medium / small sized companies lost money at a time when any penny counts. Or at very least got stressed out trying to reorganise. As they did and I did.
I don't see why the funeral couldn't have been on Sunday. The people who make these decisions don't live in same world as ordinary people.
Or it could have been on Monday but not making it a compulsory Bank Holiday. The company I was going to work for on Monday took decision Im sure because if they went ahead they would have got bad publicity due to not showing so called "respect" . I don't think any of them would have complained about working on the original day.
I don't know anyone whose been that interested in the Queen or monarchy to extent they wanted day off to watch funeral live.
Its coercive in very British way. Not quite telling you but telling you none the less.
