Perhaps the people can eat their Three Lions football kits when they get peckish, or set them alight to ward off frost bite. While - and it's worth repeating: two PMs fly in and fly out of Balmoral to see the Queen for an hour's stop and chat - you've got people unable to feed or heat themselves. Let me put it plainly: This Kissing Hands ceremony is a cover up for all of the UK's economic, social, environmental, and political troubles. Not to mention those very real, reemerging Troubles of Northern Ireland. Although that should read everyone from "Kyiv to Carlisle," if I'm to defer to Truss' geographical bearings. They love a good ceremony, do the English. (Tony Blair said it was more like an air kiss, but we'll park that.) Symbols of splits in a four-nation unionĪs I peer over my shoulder at the tiny island that had the temerity to leave the European Union and hear all the hullaballoo about Truss and the outgoing PM, Boris Johnson, flying up to Balmoral in Scotland, where our immobile monarch currently resides, in separate planes no less, during a fuel, food and cost-of-living crisis, when they could take a train (didn't we invent the railways?), that ceremony strikes me as the most glaring reflection of the parlous future facing UK communities.Īnd yet no one mentions it, not even on my beloved BBC Radio 4. A politician who started as a Liberal Democrat, advocating for a republic, then switched to the Conservatives, and now paraphrases New Labour when she says: "I campaigned as a Conservative and I shall govern as a Conservative." OM*G.īut at no time in my 48 years have I known the UK to have made so much of so little for so many, as it has with Truss' turn to kiss the Queen's hand. There is but one thing worse than an expat throwing stones at their country of birth and that is an expat having to watch that nation cling to antiquated traditions, such as the Kissing Hands ceremony, by which a monarch essentially abrogates power to their prime minister.ĭuring my conscious life - that is from about the age of five, when Margaret Thatcher became the UK's prime minister in 1979,- I have seen seven British PMs.
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