I'm not a big fan of the queen of England or anything, in fact I don't believe in such a thing as royalty, but I have to say I was incensed today when I drove by Bertie's constituency offices in Drumcondra. There was a crowd of protesters carrying placards bearing ill will toward her and not wishing her to visit. Talk about holding a grudge.
People seem obsessed with whether or not she'll visit. I read one journalist last week who said the world will be watching to see how we welcome her. AS IF! I couldn't believe he was serious, in a broadsheet and all. I don't think the world gives a flying fluck how some two-dime nation on the edge of nowhere, suddenly up itself, with a tiger fast running away, welcomes her.
To save my own blushes I just hope that if she does arrive that the same scumbags, who thought it would be a great idea to bombard the loyalists that came down last year, don't pull the same stupid stunt again.
Not that I'm in the habit of sparing my own blushes. Of course I had to roll down the window and shout "bigots" at the lads outside Bertie's second gaff today. What can I say, spur of the moment stupidity. I just hope they didn't get my reg number. You just don't know what fool with a knife will show up at your front door these days!
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Hahaha, fair play to you missus. Standing up for my beloved Queen Elizabeth, gawd bless her.
Seriously though, I was a bit surprised by the anti-Liz brigade. She is an anachronism, an irrelavence and a little old lady. Who cares if she comes to Ireland? She didn't steal yer corn back in the day, she didn't shoot yer civil rights protesters in cold blood. Oh yes, they can claim 'it was in her name'. Come on. She has no political clout. Monarchs haven't been aloud to have a say since the reign of Charles II for fear that they'd cock things up or go make the country go Catholic or something.
No, I suspect, as you do, this is simply a case of airing some anti-Brit sentiments, as happened around the time of that rugby game (when Sinn Feinn must have known that God Save the Queen had already been played at the Special Olympics, but they couldn't really make a fuss at that even now, could they?
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