Queen dying?

[tamada]

I am sorry if your internet is not up to scratch, but it was discussed initially by using the Royal Train, however due to the large crowds expected and to allow more time for Lying in State, flying back was considered the best option by the Lord Chamberlain.

Plus this which surfaced today ..https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/s ... 86ba701ef6.

Thanks for that KP. What a damn shame. I think the royal train would have been easier to manage than the hordes that are already descending on London. Who are they scared of for God's sake. I hear that one rowdy "protester" was arrested for being all shouty on the cortege drive-by in Edinburgh. Probably drunk but charged with public disorder anyway. Maybe those silly buggers at Extinction Rebellion were planning gluing themselves to something on the train tracks heading south? Hello? Police? Do your jobs! Looks like a few local forces and authorities don't have a scooby about their jobs. But, if the palace and indeed the Queen herself didn't like the idea when she was alive, it is what it is.

[Khun Paul]

That is a good point , however being ex-plod I can tell you those that wish to disrupt will and as the TRAIN journey has to go along a laid down track then unless you post a Police Officer at each and every place where it can be disrupted than the possibilities are endless. it is not a case of doing your job, my question would be where ?

With so many apparently dis-enfranchised groups looking to make a point and have their 15 minutes of FAME , the interventions and siruption could be multiple places all at once bringing the train to a halt, not a good scenario.

Any way she is now at Buck House awaiting her journey to Westminster Hall by Gun Carriage this Wednesday.

[Whistler]

If you insist. I am happy to wait and see what unfolds, not interested in splitting hairs. Thistlethwaite has three years to plan a path, expect announcements along the way as Oz moves gently, gently towards a Republic.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 5bikb.html

[mak]

US President Joe Biden is set to 'take over' the Queen's funeral as he will reportedly bring 400 secret service officers to the service next week.
400! That's a little over the top. Why doesn't he take the bus like everyone else?
It's about the late Queen, Charles III and the British people, not the US President.
Liz Truss should lay down the law:
The bus (we can arrange a seat next to the Finnish PM).
2 bodyguards.
No helicopter, no limo.
If you can't meet these conditions, maybe it's best you don't come.
Watch the movie "London Has Fallen".

[tamada]

If you insist. I am happy to wait and see what unfolds, not interested in splitting hairs. Thistlethwaite has three years to plan a path, expect announcements along the way as Oz moves gently, gently towards a Republic.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 5bikb.html

Former PM Julia Gillard also reckons the dream of the Aussie republic is closer to fruition now jug ears is in the big seat.

Best PM you ever had IMHO.

[tamada]

US President Joe Biden is set to 'take over' the Queen's funeral as he will reportedly bring 400 secret service officers to the service next week.
400! That's a little over the top. Why doesn't he take the bus like everyone else?
It's about the late Queen, Charles III and the British people, not the US President.
Liz Truss should lay down the law:
The bus (we can arrange a seat next to the Finnish PM).
2 bodyguards.
No helicopter, no limo.
If you can't meet these conditions, maybe it's best you don't come.
Watch the movie "London Has Fallen".

Maybe it's indicative of their faith in the UK security services? You know, their proudly historical friend and strong trans-Atlantic ally and all that tosh?

[mak]

400 Secret Service agents! Can you imagine what damage they can do in the clubs in the West End.

[rick]

400 Secret Service agents! Can you imagine what damage they can do in the clubs in the West End.

Good luck with that. As even the supermarkets are closed on the day of the funeral, not likely the clubs will open.

Pubs will open, but the funeral on TV will be compulsory......

[Drunk Monkey]

US President Joe Biden is set to 'take over' the Queen's funeral as he will reportedly bring 400 secret service officers to the service next week.
400! That's a little over the top. Why doesn't he take the bus like everyone else?
It's about the late Queen, Charles III and the British people, not the US President.
Liz Truss should lay down the law:
The bus (we can arrange a seat next to the Finnish PM).
2 bodyguards.
No helicopter, no limo.
If you can't meet these conditions, maybe it's best you don't come.
Watch the movie "London Has Fallen".

400 thats blooming ridiculous .. WTF hes got to even go is beyond me its not the Biden show , with sky rocketing prices on everything imagine the cost of this halfwit attending,, stay home Joe watch it on the telly from the bath chair sucking a Werthers original while Jill warms yer slippers in the microwave ... Lizzy was tight with Trump he should go and represent the USA.. surely a better idea ???

back on topic .. incredible scenes in central London as thousands que to file past the Queen coffin .. 14 to 20 hours .. and well done to David Beckham who qued along with everyone else to shoe his respect .. great gesture that despite his mega wealth he didnt jump the que like some low life politicians did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKgcILTpAqo

DM

[Whistler]

It is an assault on Britain's sovereignty in the same way as LBJ's visit to Australia was in October 1966. A disgrace, an insult to Britain and the Queen. The British Home Secretary and the PM are not doing their job

[Whistler]

Lizzy was tight with Trump he should go and represent the USA.. surely a better idea ??

DM

John,

You have surpassed yourself, well done, I did not think it possible. 55

[mak]

Queue visible from space.

[stattointhailand]

Sh*t ...... "space" has fallen about 60 odd miles

[Bandung_Dero]

20 hours in queue! At least all those crossing the bridge don't have to go far to relieve themselves

[stattointhailand]

It's currently the ONLY activity that Brits can afford to do

20 hrs that you dont have to have the heating switched on

[BillaRickaDickay]

It's currently the ONLY activity that Brits can afford to do

20 hrs that you dont have to have the heating switched on

If you got the heating switched on the UK in September you deserve all you get.
Sorry forgot, our friends from Africa, Asia and the Carribbean my find it a bit chilly.

[stattointhailand]

Yeah, you deserve to be warm.
Dont think what month it is has anything to do with it. I remember a speedway match I was at, being "snowed off" in June and that was in London not Scotland.

[Earnest]

If you got the heating switched on the UK in September you deserve all you get.
Sorry forgot, our friends from Africa, Asia and the Carribbean my find it a bit chilly.

You're the chap who thought Thalidomide was a vaccine, aren't you?

[Khun Paul]

He might well bring them but only one or two will be allowed inside the Abbey no matter what they say !!
They can swap stupid stories with the 4000 odd British and Commonwealth troops outside while the service is going on . There they will outnumbered, outgunned and certainly irrelevant to the general proceedings .

[BillaRickaDickay]

If you got the heating switched on the UK in September you deserve all you get.
Sorry forgot, our friends from Africa, Asia and the Carribbean my find it a bit chilly.

You're the chap who thought Thalidomide was a vaccine, aren't you?

No! But what do you want Biggles