Elegy For A Queen
The media beast that must be fed
On human fodder hour-by-hour,
Just for one second, checks its power.
Elizabeth, the Queen, is dead.
That this is news no one can doubt.
The airwaves hum, the presses roll.
And cellphones buzz from pole to pole
To get the information out.
We see, we hear, the words strike deep,
And tears unbidden trickle down.
As if we could this knowledge drown
In the blissful ignorance of sleep.
But this is news we can’t unlearn,
News to punctuate an age.
News writ deep on a history-page
The grieving world is loath to turn.
So many living have not known
Another to compare her to.
She wore the only crown they knew,
Soft as a mother, hard as stone.
They came to say their last goodbyes,
From Deeside to the River Thames.
Most precious of the royal gems:
Tears for a Queen in her subjects’ eyes.
The Guardsman stands with lowered head,
And vigil keeps as mourners throng.
The ancient stones join the slow song:
Elizabeth, the Queen, is dead.
Chris Trotter
15 September 2022
Her along with European exceptionalism is done.
the whole shit show just brings to mind the death of kim il windsor….enforced mourning isn’t mourning
Kim Il Sung and his successors have protected Korea from the American empire that murdered nearly five million Koreans, half of which were civilians, bombed 90% of free Korean cities into dust, and even dropped biological weapons on Korean soldiers and civilians while plotting to use nukes.
The idea that people mourning for them is enforced is American regime media propaganda.
Elizabeth, on the other hand, never did anything good in her life for the British people. The only thing she did by accident that was good for anyone on earth was discouraging Thatcher from overthrowing the first elections in Zimbabwe, and that was to preserve her Commonwealth tea parties.
I do agree here to a small extent but I feel also that Elizabeth and her family are Patrons of hundreds of charities. This includes Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who worked incredibly tirelessly with charitable endeavors, along with the new King, Charles III, his Queen Consort Camilla, the Prince and princess of Wales, the duchess of York, princess Diana, the Princess Royal, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, amongst others.
Queen’s Death: Colonial Legacy & Media Hysteria ….
…. protest and get arrested https://youtu.be/mcotClf4omY?t=213
Hilarious elegy ,,, https://www.bitchute.com/video/TQjKLs4afEre/
To be fair to the lady ,,,, the only execution she ever personally ordered,,,,, was to Dotty,, one of Princess Annes child biting english bull terriers ,,,, that had mauled Pharos,,, one of her royal corgi’s.
I believe princess power saved Dotty ,,, and she lived out her days in some royal estate somewhere.
Elizabeth ll, I think tried to keep the historic banners aloft, wafted to arouse the spirit of British people, continuing despite the gradual collapse from high-minded belief to low and crass; this to be resisted as an inexorable procession. Her descendant in Charles lll now may share the task with an evocation from the past in the lone wizard Gandalf defending all that has been good with the challenge – ‘You shall not pass’.
she didn’t say 1 word about brexshit or anything else, constitutionally barred from expressing any opinions so how exactly did ‘you shall not pass’ manifest itself….? oh yea lobbying for favourable tax exemption for herself
gagarin you have gone vinegary and sad. I don’t see much positivity from you at present which is unfortunate as i usually found something to carry forward from your comments. And I thought what I wrote indicated that Gandalf might be the new icon for Charles lll. And tax exemptions, in the upper world of finance – the pushy barons etc in the upper set would be applying for therm, so royalty would have to maintain its position – money being an important indicator of quality etc. This is royalty being part of the polity – not setting itself aside, so its managers must indeed follow the accepted business rules.
Why are you worrying? The flexible world of finance doesn’t live or die because of royalty and other well-endowed people. It just rolls on regardless, falling here and rising there. What ordinary people require from it is to have their micro-economic climate more salubrious to meet their life needs.
grey the comment stands and your amateur hour psychology is not required,
now address the points raised.
how about that for bitter and twisted? grey
Well gagarin try and leave money out of it when assessing the Queen. If you consider you are arguing on points of vital importance. And the amateur psychology comment is laughable. What’s wrong with being amateur, we can’t just rely on people of eminence in universities and elsewhere and give them the absolute power of deciding on psychological matters! We are given power ourselves in democracies and fail to accept the duty of thinking and learning to help us with the decisions we are call ed to make.
Our necessity is to think differentkly than we have done till now, as the whole of the post WW2 20th century period has passed by with us now in dire straits, largely brought about by ourselves and our lack of thinking beyond instant gratification. We need to change our ideas and examine all our thoughts against a criteria of practicality as well as values; look at what ‘psychology’ can teach us personally, not just think it is for professionals.
You said this below. And it is a facer. I’ll just point out how does a constitutionally powerless monarch protect democracy?…and it’s evident from the UK in recent years that she was ineffective to say the least….she said nowt when boris lied to her face.
I ask Martyn or Chris if they would put up a post examining how the Monarch could activate changes needed by the country, Brexit notwithstanding, as that was done under apparent mandate from the people. I wonder if the monarch could say that there must be a high percentage of majority for nation-changing such as this. Perhaps a 75:25 split. He could say that the Commons is working under inadequate rules perhaps? Perhaps give a regular state of the nation address every quarter. He could say that these are fast-moving times with many continuing and increasingly destructive problems and he feels he must advise the people and call for greater cohesion to assist in meeting the reality with resolve as it can not be prevented.
It would be like the WW2 Churchillian speech with regular encouraging but factual follow-ups informing of progress from scientific notables and persons of standing from their achievements, not political! That could slice through conventions that prevent royalty fromfulfilling their role in its positive form I think.
how do you ‘leave money out of it’ exactly richest woman in the UK by repute still leeching off the taxpayer.
we all know she didn’t speak out because the basis of the civil list is her silence, the question was given that, how does her limited role ‘protect democracy’ it doesn’t is the answer.
It’s a separation of roles gagarin. You don’t seem gaga so why would you overlook that. It is an attempt to have a leader figure of royalty that is not being contested regularly and enables the commons stability to find and build their futures. It was agreed as a valid way forward for centuries. But like the USA relying on a 300 year old constitution that capitalistic motivations have put under stress, to the belief, as discussed in today’s post, that civil war could be a likely outcome, royalty cannot remain unchanged.
The theme from today’s rich and powerful risen from technology, which has risen from conflict preparation, is to cause disruption in society, and weak-minded people will allow change to sweep all away; we will then be caught between a rock and a hard place as the saying goes. We should hold onto that which has been respected and look to assisting the people. Royaty can think about more then business coups and competition and profit because they have inherited wealth and inherited ideals of position, Charles certainly has anyway.
‘separation of roles’ exactly grey but they’re separated into ‘photo ops’ and collecting benefits…nothing about protecting democracy or her people.
Chris Trotter’s post https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-languages-of-sovereignty-and.html is worth reading and you would probably have some interesting, thoughtful things to say about that.
Charles the Kook has at least done something for British tradition in his campaign for traditional architecture, can’t say the same for his mother (unless she really did knock Diana off).
Despite the usual responses, I liked your bit of verse Chris and I for one was proud to name her Queen.
How I feel about the Queen. Our mothers’ generation and the last generation from the democracy following WW ll.
Which we’ve forgotten, thanks to the heart going out of it, thanks to Roge in our vicinity. See the fkn Standard, still true to him. By which, see Labour.
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