They have no positive effect on me personally. I’m not sure any Brit sees them as much more than entertainment but there is also a surprising amount of flag-waving (surprising to me) going on at the minute, what with the jubbly and all that.
Defenders of the royals like to point out that they bring in tourism. But Spain and France (just 2 examples) draw vastly more than Britain.
Also, I think this point has been made elsewhere on Boing, though I did check upthread.
The core of their support will come from the same nationalist, racist dicks who brought us brexit.
Isn’t it the Daily Heil, Piers Morgan and the tabloids who are the instigators of the ire. The Sussex’s were cheered when they went to the church service. de Pfeffel was booed and jeered entering and leaving the church.
That is arguably way more than „the queen“ has ever done for „her“ country, having remained silent through Thatcher fucking Britain up beyond belief, through joining the US in starting ridiculous wars, through all that Brexit nonsense and now through Bojo‘s pathetic performance.
I think that’s a little unfair. She apparently works very hard all the time.
It’s just that all the work she does, keeping on top of policy proposals, government plans, etc. is all essentially entirely voluntary.
I mean everyone agrees that she’s tremendously well informed and briefed, often has a better grasp of government policy proposals than the various Prime Ministers she chats with – and all of that is entirely irrelevant.
If the PM wants to discuss policy and world events with her, she is apparently an amazing resource. She’s been intimately involved in UK and world politics for 70 years, she knows or has at least met everybody and is the one person the PM can talk to who is unfailingly discreet.
But the PM doesn’t have to take advantage of that. He or she can just waltz in for a 5 minute cuppa and sod off again.
Must be a bit frustrating. But I’m sure Balmoral makes up for it.
Yeah, it’s the shallow end of the newspaper pool that hate them.
I don’t think the higher end of the newspaper market cares.
And most people definitely don’t. The number of people who actually care is tiny, but quite vocal. Editors have slowly realised this and most backed off…
