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I've been really busy, even out at a party till well after dark, but it's all got away from me so I'll give up on all that and record where I'm at with the coronation and All That.


Mostly I feel a deep sense of shame and revulsion at the concept of royalty, with its inherent hierarchy of humans and our value, and with our lot in particular with their history of enslaving, colonising and robbing all around the world. So I didn't watch it and I most certainly didn't pledge my allegiance. If it had been scaled down a bit, if they'd paid for it out of the literal billions inherited (without them paying any of the inheritance tax paid by everyone except the mega-rich who always seem to find a way to wriggle out of it), if there was some acknowledgement that hideous numbers of British citizens are living in hunger, including many who are actually in work, then it wouldn't have pissed me off so much. 


I think when the queen was crowned, back in 1953, it was such a different world. We were not long out of WWII which had generated a big sense of being all in it together. Buckingham Palace had been bombed (only a small corner) and the princesses stayed put. We'd emerged from the war quite broke but had still founded the NHS so that everyone had access to free healthcare. Councils were building 'homes fit for heroes' like this one, built in 1947, massive garden, really well built house, sturdy and dry. The queen's coronation took place in a country where everyone was valued, at least in theory. 


Now all the power has fallen into the hands of the very rich who don't even pretend to care about anything beyond what benefits them - well, they don't pretend enough to lie convincingly. They continually reduce taxes on the rich while saying there's not enough money to pay nurses enough that they don't need to use food banks, then expect us to all dance for joy at one of the richest men in the world sitting draped in artefacts robbed from all over the world and partaking in some weird ceremony, that means nothing to me.


I'm not alone - scroll down to the video clip here


https://thecelticstar.com/video-celtic-fans-coronation-chant-gets-good-reception-on-bbc-show/


I don't care at all about Camilla being queen - in fact that's one of the things I actually like about  Charles. He wasn't allowed to marry her, was pushed into marrying beautiful Diana but it was funny old Camilla that he loved and couldn't give up. Obviously it would have been great if he'd told them (whoever 'they' were)  to fuck off and he'd marry who he wanted to, without bringing Diana into it, but he didn't. He's been 'green' forever, when it was all considered a big joke, and created one of the first big, all-organic farms which also gives him a few brownie points, but not enough to make up for not paying tax and for allowing Prince Andrew to attend the wedding in full bullshit regalia, as if it was some other fucker who'd paid vast sums of money to settle a court case and who'd hung out with people convicted of trafficking young girls. That bit's unspeakable and puts me right alongside those Celtic fans.


 

12:56 a.m. - 08.05.23

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