Chanting for Charlie

[mugnapper]

In a break with tradition, the Archbishop of Canterbury will ask the nation to join in with a chant of ‘May the King live forever’ at Charlie’s coronation next week.
Will you be joining in?

[Nudga]

Not my king.

[Branton Red]

Yes I will be.

[Ldr]

Feels a bit cultish

[glosterred]

Not my king.

If you’re a British subject whether you like it or not yes he is your King

[Nudga]

Feels a bit cultish

Will it be a three phrased chant?

[mugnapper]

Feels a bit cultish

Should that last 'l' have been an 'n'?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Not my king.

If you’re a British subject whether you like it or not yes he is your King

Here's a thought.

If the Archbishop of Canterbury had said we should all chant "May the King be able to flap his arms and fly like a bird", would you have expected us all to join in that.

Because it makes more logical sense.

[tommy toes]

Cheltenham fans might be chanting it, hoping to keep Alfie.

[redwine]

Feels a bit cultish

Almost correct, just replace one constanant.

[albie]

We are all singing for his supper;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/king-charles-coronation-bill-tipped-29849381

In a country of food banks, cost of living stress, and unaffordable fuel bills.
Make sense of it!

[Nudga]

We are all singing for his supper;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/king-charles-coronation-bill-tipped-29849381

In a country of food banks, cost of living stress, and unaffordable fuel bills.
Make sense of it!

Same bloke that jets around the world, makes short trips in helicopters, chauffeur driven in huge motors and owns multiple stately homes and gets to tell us

 "If we go on exploiting the way we are, whatever we do to nature - however much we pollute her - we do to ourselves. It is insanity,"

f**k off you fat sausage fingered Kitson.

[glosterred]

We are all singing for his supper;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/king-charles-coronation-bill-tipped-29849381

In a country of food banks, cost of living stress, and unaffordable fuel bills.
Make sense of it!

£1.7 billion the amount the royal family brings to the economy

https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/

[albie]

The estimate of £1.7 billion is referring to the monarchy as an institution, not the Royal family with the assets they control.

Even if it were accurate, the value to the economy does not transfer evenly.
That income does not directly impact the pockets of poverty in need.

How could the assets and income of the Royal Family, including the Duchies and the Crown Estates, be re-allocated to social priorities in the UK?

[Glyn_Wigley]

The estimate of £1.7 billion is referring to the monarchy as an institution, not the Royal family with the assets they control.

Even if it were accurate, the value to the economy does not transfer evenly.
That income does not directly impact the pockets of poverty in need.

How could the assets and income of the Royal Family, including the Duchies and the Crown Estates, be re-allocated to social priorities in the UK?

The Crown Estates don't belong to the Royal Family, they belong to the institution of the Crown (ie the job, not the person).

Get rid of the job and the assets revert to the state, not the Royal Family. That's how they'd get reallocated - and completely at that.

[albie]

Agreed, Glyn.

[Sprotyrover]

The Monarchy generates a massive income for the country in tourism I don’t see a head of state in the likes of Machron or Shroeder would generate anything

[Hounslowrover]

So, would people stop visiting if there was no monarchy.  Lots of tourism in other countries without a monarch.  I believe the most visited palace is Versailles.

[Draytonian III]

Are those people who dislike the monarchy still having the extra day off next Monday, of course they are.

[Bentley Bullet]

The King's Coronation is expected to bring around £1 billion to the UK economy.

If you're against it ignore it and leave those who are for it to enjoy it.

[Nudga]

I am because my customers don't want me in on Monday so I'm going to paint my kitchen and hang a radiator.

[tyke1962]

The King's Coronation is expected to bring around £1 billion to the UK economy.

If you're against it ignore it and leave those who are for it to enjoy it.

The Premier League brings in £3.2bn in taxes alone and £7.7bn is added to the overall economy annually .

Chicken feed BB given we have to put up with this medieval love fest for the benefit of the nation's toff sycophants .

[Bentley Bullet]

People who don't like the Premier League don't have to put up with it. They can ignore it and leave those who like it to carry on liking it.

The same should go for the Coronation.

[Nudga]

I don't like organisations that harbour pedophiles and pay off witnesses.

[danumdon]

I don't like organisations that harbour pedophiles and pay off witnesses.

If the general demeanour and attitude of this individual is anyway true to the alleged text messages he sent to his future wife about wanting to be where sanitary products are utilised then it just makes my skin crawl at the thought of what goes through his warped mind.

Repugnant individual.

[Donnywolf]

What I find hard to articulate (and I don't think writing it down helps AT ALL) is this :

Why do lots of people in this Country fly flags , hang on fences for hours , fawn  ,hang on every spoken or written word of ( this is the hard bit to explain ) a family just like yours and mine

That's not strictly true because I have no family. There's just me and Mrs DW no kids so you get the picture

Just an ordinary set of people who may once have had a direct link to God who have been diluted , fragmented , halted in their "genetic line" but still continue to have people hanging on their every action , their every word

Why ?

4 Doors from me , 5 Doors from me and 6 Doors away from me there are ordinary people whose names I don't even know and to me they are on a par with Charlie Boy and the Queen Consort and the boys Wills and Harry . Except Im more interested in my neighbours than the alleged Royal family

My neighbours don't cost me piles every year. They don't have millions maybe billions of ordinary people's money but they are the same as me and my small family ..... just ordinary people no great recognized bloodline , just a family tree that commands no interest

So NO I won't be pledging any oath or anything else to Charlie boy or his kling ons as to me they are as ordinary as the family three doors away. They've been married twice (each) have kids and Grandkids and I don't talk to them either.

The difference is the family up the road can't perpetuate the notion that they are descended directly from God and fleece me and around 50% of others by pretending they are

I knew it wouldn't work. My conclusion is Charlie and his little (massive) empire is alive only because people think it is still plausible in the 21st Century

[scawsby steve]

I agree with BB that people should be allowed to enjoy this day if they wish to.

He's also hoping to enjoy the day as much as he did at King George V1's Coronation.

[Donnywolf]

.... having sung in Choir for Queen Victorias Coronation as well ?

[ravenrover]

So, would people stop visiting if there was no monarchy.  Lots of tourism in other countries without a monarch.  I believe the most visited palace is Versailles.

It's estimated that with the land and the Palace it would have cost over 2 billion dollars at todays prices. It is fully open to tje public hence why it is probably the most visited nothing to do with current royalty it is more a museum with a vast amount of land.
Yes I've been and it is magnificent it is a days outing but the French royalty, as in royal familly, has long gone except in name, as opposed to over here

[i_ateallthepies]

I am because my customers don't want me in on Monday so I'm going to paint my kitchen and hang a radiator.

What's the radiator done?