Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant -- Coachloads of jobless people brought in to work unpaid on river pageant as part of Work Programme. The river pageant? Celebrating the 60-year reign of that bejeweled parasite. And when the guillotine goes up in Trafalgar Square, the rich twits will wonder what's going on. When that time comes, I hope the CEO of Close Protection UK is in the first waves of tumbrils.
Unspeakable, unregenerate Millgram authoritarians. This is the kkkulture that had soldiers using pliers to rip the nipples off Kikuyu women in Kenya by way of "interrogation" and then lied about it for fifty years under their Official Secrets Act. Same group that used fascist Scottish peasants as murdering nation wide prison guards in Israel and Palestine during the Mandate. Same debased kkkrew that brought you the Falls Road in Belast and the Maze prison. Fuck fucking ameriKKKan Anglophilia.
Posted by: JDM | June 05, 2012 at 09:17 AM
JDM: Hey, don't hold back. Funny, the Brits now are seen as so civilized but man, ask the India weavers who had their thumbs removed so that English cloth mills could dominate not so many years ago. An imperialist is a monster no matter how nice they look or how posh the accent. GMB
Posted by: gmb | June 05, 2012 at 08:55 PM
From Twitter the other night:
"@aburnspolitico CNN projects that Queen Elizabeth will remain on the throne with 0% of the vote"
Posted by: MaximusNYC | June 07, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Yep, Max. It galls me how the media there and here were playing up her sacrifice and service to the country, blah, blah, blah. As long as people are willing to bow to her and her fucking spawn, they are willing to accept that some humans are more equal because, well just because. Never. I will never accept it. What a disgraceful display. That said, you know the capitalists loved it--ca-ching! GMB
Posted by: gmb | June 07, 2012 at 07:39 PM
Well, to be contrarian, there's an argument to be made that having a head of state that's separate from the elected leader is not a bad thing. Here we combine the two positions, and accordingly treat the President somewhat like royalty. Would we be better off with a symbolic but largely powerless national figurehead, to host glittering receptions at the White House, and an elected political leader less surrounded by pomp and circumstance? Perhaps.
Posted by: MaximusNYC | June 08, 2012 at 01:05 PM
Max: There's more tied up with the monarcy bullshit. Namely, that the average joe is supposed to believe that these people with titles somehow earned them by being born of magic sperm or traveling through a noble vagina and the rest of us are supposed to bow to them. Hate it. There is no reason why the pomp and circumstance has to be so fucking over the top. A president or governor or other executive is a manager. Period. Like banking, government should be boring. GMB
Posted by: gmb | June 08, 2012 at 10:41 PM