The very last statement of the piece, spoken by Ash Sarkar. Paraphrasing:
By showing wall to wall coverage of this event perhaps the BBC Management made a judgement to placate the loud voices of the right wing at the expense of alienating it’s viewership for a limited period of time.
This is of course something that Sarkar and Walker know all about, given that they did a similar thing themselves when they placated the right during the peak of the manufactured Corbyn anti-Semitism crisis.
Apart from that, very good.
You don’t understand why people don’t like being coerced into grieving for eugenics practitioners who believe in their superior bloodline or you don’t understand why people get pissed off when they can’t access TV programmes they’ve paid to watch?
Not sure its anything to do with ‘cool or trendy’, more that for most its not really relevant… its for his family and friends to mourn a loved one, and I always felt that is a personal thing for them. An opportunity for the to celebrate his life and say goodbye, and that is respected. But for 99.99999% of the country who did not know him, the establishment expecting the ‘nation’ of ‘subjects’ to join in national mourning is as insulting as it is ridiculous…
It’s not a police state, nobody’s ordering you to do anything or feel anything. I’ve got almost no interest in the Royal family myself, but I don’t begrudge anyone that does.
TBH Map I do think you’re wide of the mark on this one, the Royal Family doesn’t bother me one iota but I do think the majority of people on the street are bothered.
And HRH Philip was, for some reason, a popular royal…with the older generation at least
It wasnt that on the 4 TV Channels here.
It was mourning someone who served.
And, tbh, what I saw of BBC & ITV they didnt push anything other than a Family service and hoped it would give comfort to others who suffered in Covid lockdown.
But it’s not trendy as I said
