Then watch as the right to peaceful protest is totally ignored they get dragged away. Can’t have the filthy peasants spoiling the big day can we?
Cant wait for some of the ‘Free speech’ gang to get upset over this and start the unhinged talk of treason etc.
The same people that have an issue with this will be the same people that cry about their “free speech” being taken away from them.
How many people do we think are going to be arrested for peacefully protesting this time?
Excellent, that’s the beauty of living in a democracy.
We have to be careful – if we abolish the monarchy, we also get rid of the odd bank holidays for their expansive “look at us you peasants” weddings and “watch me put on a hat” coronations
I’m sure there will be no heavy-handed overreaction by the police.
everyone loves equality these days but also loves the monarchy
PICK ONE
What I like to see!
Let’s hope they don’t get their faces trampled by the boots of the establishment!
Good. It’s an absolute joke that with the increase in cost of living, food costs, utilities, petrol, etc, there’s one guy in London getting carted about in a gold fucking carriage putting on a gold crown!!
There is an insane amount of economic ignorance in this thread.
Glad to see they aren’t protesting against it at the snooker and are in a logical place to protest their cause.
I don’t agree with them but they have every right to protest as long as they don’t ruin it for the other attendees.
Disclosure: born but don’t live in the UK.
The monarchy needs to gtfo. Parasites with no redeeming features.
No society striving for equality can have a monarchy. It’s particularly insulting during such an economically difficult time. The time for monrachies has moved on. Use the tax for something productive.
There is a subset of people who say “Not my king” yet loved the queen and I’m absolutely baffled by it.
Naturally this coronation will stage protests. The Govt. coming down on protesters doesn’t help matters. I suppose this Govt. is quite Republican… in an American sense of the word.
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ITT: outraged monarchists losing their heads over the idea that somebody might publicly oppose a rich guy who believes he was born with the right to rule over all of us
The Treason Felony Act 1848 makes it illegal to protest for abolition of the monarchy. However, this law is a relic of the past. The Human Rights Act 1998 confers the right to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly and Association to protest. Under the constitutional principle of Sovereignty of Parliament, the latest Act would supersede the older one, even if the Treason Felony Act was not repealed. I doubt the court would convict anyone for protesting for the abolition of the monarchy.
This is why people should always support Human Rights. These are your guaranteed rights and protections against the government and any other state institution.
I don’t like The Green King^TM
But there is one important thing to remember here. The Prime Minister is accountable to the monarch. If we get a radical prime minister, the monarch can hold them accountable in a way that isn’t possible in other countries where the President holds ultimate power.
While I disagree with Charles politically, I like the theory of a safeguard to hold the PM accountable.
The amount of people saying ‘free speech absolutists will want to arrest those protesters’ is really unhealthy. We shouldn’t be forming prejudice against groups who oppose us
Disagree, think being anti british monarch is pretty brain rot given the pure financial facts.
But I’m pro free speech and support their right to peacefully protest.
If the BBC is truly impartial, shouldn’t they be airing an equal amount of Republican material rather than 24/7 royal shagging BS?
They are categorically different. A protest at a coronation is a space with hundreds of thousands of people supporting the monarch, with some dissenting voices behind a barricade no where near the person it is aimed towards, who is one of the most powerful, wealthy, and influential people in the country. He is supported in a way barely anyone on earth will ever feel, by thousands and thousands of people, armed security and police who will quite literally do what he tells them.
A woman being targeted by protestors outside a clinic has absolutely none of this, not hundreds of thousands of supporters, not armed police, not barricades, and in terms of its impact, protestors at a clinic are making an already terrible, difficult, painful day worse for the attendee, whereas I doubt the King would even see any protestors amongst the thousands of people supporting him, much less feel even remotely the impact of their protest, and if he did, he can console himself by literally looking the other way at the thousands who do support him, or just go and count his money, or lobby the prime minister to crack down on dissenting voices to his reign.
To say they are both the same is intellectually dishonest if you consider it even for a moment.
“Historians have noticed, all down the centuries, one peculiarity of the English people which has cost them dear…The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength.
Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals. They come from the acceptance of defeatist doctrines by a large proportion of our politicians. But what have they to offer but a vague internationalism, a squalid materialism, and the promise of impossible utopias?
Nothing can save England if she will not save herself.”
“St George for Merrie England”
W.S.Churchill speech.
‘ENGLAND’
24 April 1933
Royal Society of St George, London
Well I’ll be there on the day and if I see any republicans trying to spoil the day I’ll jam their placards right up there arses
Nice to see this subreddit demonstrate how out of touch it is with the majority of Britons.
Police are going to arrest them day before the event and then release them without charge as soon as the event is over.
They did this to many republican protestors the day before prince Williams wedding. An utterly disgusting attempt to suppress their right to protest.
Not my King. But it is MY/OUR tax money being thrown away on this stupid rich man festival.
Hope they cause some disruption.
My one argument for not abolishing the monarchy is that the government will only waste the extra money anyway.
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Then watch as the right to peaceful protest is totally ignored they get dragged away. Can’t have the filthy peasants spoiling the big day can we?
Cant wait for some of the ‘Free speech’ gang to get upset over this and start the unhinged talk of treason etc.
The same people that have an issue with this will be the same people that cry about their “free speech” being taken away from them.
How many people do we think are going to be arrested for peacefully protesting this time?
Excellent, that’s the beauty of living in a democracy.
We have to be careful – if we abolish the monarchy, we also get rid of the odd bank holidays for their expansive “look at us you peasants” weddings and “watch me put on a hat” coronations
I’m sure there will be no heavy-handed overreaction by the police.
everyone loves equality these days but also loves the monarchy
PICK ONE
What I like to see!
Let’s hope they don’t get their faces trampled by the boots of the establishment!
Good. It’s an absolute joke that with the increase in cost of living, food costs, utilities, petrol, etc, there’s one guy in London getting carted about in a gold fucking carriage putting on a gold crown!!
There is an insane amount of economic ignorance in this thread.
Glad to see they aren’t protesting against it at the snooker and are in a logical place to protest their cause.
I don’t agree with them but they have every right to protest as long as they don’t ruin it for the other attendees.
Disclosure: born but don’t live in the UK.
The monarchy needs to gtfo. Parasites with no redeeming features.
No society striving for equality can have a monarchy. It’s particularly insulting during such an economically difficult time. The time for monrachies has moved on. Use the tax for something productive.
There is a subset of people who say “Not my king” yet loved the queen and I’m absolutely baffled by it.
Naturally this coronation will stage protests. The Govt. coming down on protesters doesn’t help matters. I suppose this Govt. is quite Republican… in an American sense of the word.
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ITT: outraged monarchists losing their heads over the idea that somebody might publicly oppose a rich guy who believes he was born with the right to rule over all of us
The Treason Felony Act 1848 makes it illegal to protest for abolition of the monarchy. However, this law is a relic of the past. The Human Rights Act 1998 confers the right to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly and Association to protest. Under the constitutional principle of Sovereignty of Parliament, the latest Act would supersede the older one, even if the Treason Felony Act was not repealed. I doubt the court would convict anyone for protesting for the abolition of the monarchy.
This is why people should always support Human Rights. These are your guaranteed rights and protections against the government and any other state institution.
I don’t like The Green King^TM
But there is one important thing to remember here. The Prime Minister is accountable to the monarch. If we get a radical prime minister, the monarch can hold them accountable in a way that isn’t possible in other countries where the President holds ultimate power.
While I disagree with Charles politically, I like the theory of a safeguard to hold the PM accountable.
The amount of people saying ‘free speech absolutists will want to arrest those protesters’ is really unhealthy. We shouldn’t be forming prejudice against groups who oppose us
Disagree, think being anti british monarch is pretty brain rot given the pure financial facts.
But I’m pro free speech and support their right to peacefully protest.
If the BBC is truly impartial, shouldn’t they be airing an equal amount of Republican material rather than 24/7 royal shagging BS?
They are categorically different. A protest at a coronation is a space with hundreds of thousands of people supporting the monarch, with some dissenting voices behind a barricade no where near the person it is aimed towards, who is one of the most powerful, wealthy, and influential people in the country. He is supported in a way barely anyone on earth will ever feel, by thousands and thousands of people, armed security and police who will quite literally do what he tells them.
A woman being targeted by protestors outside a clinic has absolutely none of this, not hundreds of thousands of supporters, not armed police, not barricades, and in terms of its impact, protestors at a clinic are making an already terrible, difficult, painful day worse for the attendee, whereas I doubt the King would even see any protestors amongst the thousands of people supporting him, much less feel even remotely the impact of their protest, and if he did, he can console himself by literally looking the other way at the thousands who do support him, or just go and count his money, or lobby the prime minister to crack down on dissenting voices to his reign.
To say they are both the same is intellectually dishonest if you consider it even for a moment.
“Historians have noticed, all down the centuries, one peculiarity of the English people which has cost them dear…The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within. They do not come from the cottages of the wage earners. They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength.
Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals. They come from the acceptance of defeatist doctrines by a large proportion of our politicians. But what have they to offer but a vague internationalism, a squalid materialism, and the promise of impossible utopias?
Nothing can save England if she will not save herself.”
“St George for Merrie England”
W.S.Churchill speech.
‘ENGLAND’
24 April 1933
Royal Society of St George, London
Well I’ll be there on the day and if I see any republicans trying to spoil the day I’ll jam their placards right up there arses
Nice to see this subreddit demonstrate how out of touch it is with the majority of Britons.
Police are going to arrest them day before the event and then release them without charge as soon as the event is over.
They did this to many republican protestors the day before prince Williams wedding. An utterly disgusting attempt to suppress their right to protest.
Not my King. But it is MY/OUR tax money being thrown away on this stupid rich man festival.
Hope they cause some disruption.
My one argument for not abolishing the monarchy is that the government will only waste the extra money anyway.