Our time, the Queen died very early Friday morning. Mike Hosking, a proud royalist and huge fan of Her Majesty ran an excellent show dedicated to her passing. I shed a tear listening to her longtime friend and lady-in-waiting Lady Ann Glenconner describing how they had known each other as young as eight. Listening to personal loss always moves me.
But what the heck? It's now Sunday and still NZ papers are dripping with dross dominated largely by royal gossip. I can't be more specific than the headlines allow because I'm not reading it.
Her passing should have been treated with the dignity and restraint that personified the exceptional woman the Queen was.
The longer this garish 'grieving' goes on, the less sincere it all appears.
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Agreed
Being consumed as another branding commodity.
'Got my mask, got my triple jab, Ukranian flag Facebook wrapper, got my Current Thing.'
Agreed Lindsay wallowing in it, is how I see it.
By all means celebrate a remarkable life well lived but the world still has a sun rising each morning, and the local tragedy off Goose Bay should be of more moment than the expiry of a 96 year old with an inevitability ever present.
Eleven persons on a small boat the length of our mobile home where so many would be uncomfortable, sort of standing room only?
Of course the Government and their `bought and paid for media' are going to carry the Queens Death on for as long as they possibly can. It provides distraction for:
* Covid shenanigans.
* Rampant inflation.
* The 3Waters rort.
* The co-governance rort.
* The Mahuta nepotism etc.
* Rotorua Housing disgrace.
* Oranga Tamariki disgrace.
* Falling poll trends.
and finally pretty much anything else you can think of from this disgracefully incompetent government and it gives Prime Minister Ardern the chance to show her frowny face, tilty head and wavy arms in what is in all probability faux sympathy.
pdm, It is ridiculously easy to add to your list. Surgery waiting lists, chronic school absenteeism and illiteracy, impending further strikes by firefighters, aged care staffing crisis, farmer disaffection with a raft of issues protested by Groundswell ...
Lindsay I decided to stop rather than take up too much space but here is another:
Bullying of Gaurav Sharma.
As an aside.
UK Mourning is to be expected. Nzz not so much.
When the King of Thailand died after 70 years on the throne, locals observed a 30 day period of mourning. Government Officials and Royal family observed 1 year of mourning.
So a couple of days of media ""activity"" in NZ is really neither here nor there.
The thing that rips my knickers is the woksters deciding to have a public holiday!!!!!!!!!!!!! For effs sake. Get a grip.
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