The Jubilee celebrations & regatta on Sunday,,,,
Discussion
I'm a royalist, but out of logic and not emotion. I think the royal family is good for the country. We could so easily have had Blair as president.
But I could not help but think: My Queen, my country, as I watched the crowds in the Mall and the flypast. Not quite a tear in the eye but there was a feeling of pride.
We do a lot of things only just adequately in this country. There's a lot wrong with it. But I'd rather live here than anywhere else.
It's great visiting other countries - I'm off to France once, possibly twice, this year and maybe Italy as well. We'll enjoy ourselves no end but will be so happy to be back.
It is easy to make derogatory remarks about the whole four days of the Jubilee but millions would appear to feel as I do.
But I could not help but think: My Queen, my country, as I watched the crowds in the Mall and the flypast. Not quite a tear in the eye but there was a feeling of pride.
We do a lot of things only just adequately in this country. There's a lot wrong with it. But I'd rather live here than anywhere else.
It's great visiting other countries - I'm off to France once, possibly twice, this year and maybe Italy as well. We'll enjoy ourselves no end but will be so happy to be back.
It is easy to make derogatory remarks about the whole four days of the Jubilee but millions would appear to feel as I do.
Eric Mc said:
dxg said:
David Starkey making some good points on ITV1 now...
Being very interesting. The most intelligent comments all day - and they are trying to shut him up.Must stay on message old boy.
Starkey got all choked up at one point. Good lad.
Derek Smith said:
I'm a royalist, but out of logic and not emotion. I think the royal family is good for the country. We could so easily have had Blair as president.
And at the end of the celebrations, that's the important thing. An elected head of state would be rubbish on so many levels. I'd argue it doesn't really work in most places that they have one. Sure there's a democratic deficit in having a Monarch, but I think it'd be much worse having people who want the trappings of the monarch able to achieve it.I posted elsewhere that the Queen inhabits a gilded cage. No matter how gilded it is, it's still a cage.
forsure said:
bobbylondonuk said:
Try CNN...Piers Morgan is acting like the British are re-energising to take over the world soon!
Good on him...he has got a lot of Americans out there mesmerised..although he doesnt know s
t about anything at all!
He called the Red Arrows the Red Devils Good on him...he has got a lot of Americans out there mesmerised..although he doesnt know s
t about anything at all! 
Shaw Tarse said:
forsure said:
bobbylondonuk said:
Try CNN...Piers Morgan is acting like the British are re-energising to take over the world soon!
Good on him...he has got a lot of Americans out there mesmerised..although he doesnt know st about anything at all!
He called the Red Arrows the Red Devils Good on him...he has got a lot of Americans out there mesmerised..although he doesnt know s
t about anything at all! I was channnel-hopping, so I don't know whether he made the same mistake before.
Eric Mc said:
Right - that's it. BBC have wheeled out one celebrity too many (more "wows" and "amazings" - yech).
I've switched to ITV which seems a lot more respectful of the occasion.
BBC coverage was truly woeful. The silly over the top spin they put on everything was most annoying. I've switched to ITV which seems a lot more respectful of the occasion.
There was some idiot commenting on how the jubilee was a 'truly' global affair and is much celebrated around the world. He then went on to describe a 'very British affair' of some party in Islamabad where most of the participants were kids. These kids were having the Pakistani flag painted on their face/local customs etc.
Perhaps I am wrong but it certainly did not seem like a very British affair, so why make it out to be something it is quite clearly not?
Again, not sure how celebrated this event was in France, showing a jubilee party in SW France (20 ex pats) doesn't mean that the whole country was behind the event.
Switched over to Sky for a much better representation of the event, I rather liked some of the light hearted comments that came out from some of their chaps.
Eric Mc said:
The actual commentary on the ride from Westminster to the Palace was fine - no "wows", "amazings" or "ubeliveables". Just straightforward, restrained and informative comment - the way it should be.
I see the Irish Guards get the honour of the mass gun salute too.
I see the Irish Guards get the honour of the mass gun salute too.
I do wish that small-minded contingent of the crowd would stop bloody whooping!
Dr Imran T said:
Again, not sure how celebrated this event was in France, showing a jubilee party in SW France (20 ex pats) doesn't mean that the whole country was behind the event.
To be fair the French have celebrated every day for over 60 years by being able to speak their native language. 
DonkeyApple said:
Looking at some of the footage of the crowds moving down The Mall, I guess forming one of the largest and most orderly queues is a fitting tribute to Britishness.
Absolutely! we all take the piss out of our Queueing.....hello world..this is how you do it in the thousands! Beat that!I wish Starkey were on C4 News right now, as the leftie mouth piece like rent a quote Owen Jones, is spouting off way above IQ, along with Plan B, and various class warriors, oh and 30secs of some pensioners playing bingo in N Yorks for balance. Apparently the community worker thinks a amnesty for commonwealth illegal immigrants would have been a good idea...
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