HarryVegas
Well-known member
I love this uber-deference, it's the one thing our nation is still truly great at. I respect his service and a family have lost their head, which is always terribly sad, no matter the grand old age of the deceased.
But my heart is more with the passing and every wasted life of ex-soldiers who died in shop doorways, having served the crown and been rewarded with lifelong mental health problems, with little help from either country or regiment.
It's with the poor and voiceless who subsist on old age pensions, and the disabled who found themselves targeted as state scroungers while the royal family live in unimaginable riches.
I'm not even a republican - not really - but the mawkishness and false public grief of these occasions is just too much for me.
And I'm sorry but if the man had come on this board spouting any of the many racist comments for which he was infamous, he'd have been banned in 5 minutes flat.
Bring on the brickbats. Too soon for some, I know.
But my heart is more with the passing and every wasted life of ex-soldiers who died in shop doorways, having served the crown and been rewarded with lifelong mental health problems, with little help from either country or regiment.
It's with the poor and voiceless who subsist on old age pensions, and the disabled who found themselves targeted as state scroungers while the royal family live in unimaginable riches.
I'm not even a republican - not really - but the mawkishness and false public grief of these occasions is just too much for me.
And I'm sorry but if the man had come on this board spouting any of the many racist comments for which he was infamous, he'd have been banned in 5 minutes flat.
Bring on the brickbats. Too soon for some, I know.