Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
People's loved ones die every day and if they're lucky they get family support and can afford the funeral costs. That's not the case for millions of his subjects.
When my mother died, I had to sort everything out. Everything. Go and register her death, sort the funeral arrangements, notify everybody and sort her home out. I was living 300 miles away and doing 600 miles round trips three times a week as well as working. I had no help from the state. No entourage of thousands of staff to f*cking fill a fountain pen and chopper me into the freshly-painted areas of cities around the UK.
This isn't a feel-sorry-for-myself post. Far from it.
He doesn't see the needles in Grangetown or the kids on scooters delivering smack. The fly-tipping. The rats. The poverty.
I've been very restrained about my feelings regarding the death of Queen Elizabeth II and now the ascension of King Charles III, but some of this stuff really makes me angry. It makes me feel sick. I feel a huge sense of injustice and inequality. I am having my face rubbed into the sycophancy, of the absurdity of how being pushed out into the world from a very specific vagina will automatically mean I never have to wait for a hip replacement, worry what happens to my wife when I die or scrimp and save to deal with a cost of living crisis that, would you believe, is still very much part of millions of Britons lives. I live around people who can only afford to put a couple of quid on the electric. People who have terminal cancer, people who will die young because of a lack of adequate healthcare. People who rely on and volunteer at food banks.
There's a reason that the queen was able to live so long and died of natural causes at 96 years old.
Enough. Please. Some sense of perspective I implore any of you that is seduced by this vacuous and obscene pomp to try and remember that life is f*cking hard work and they are very, very, fortunate to not have to worry about very much beyond cutting a ribbon to open a new supermarket compared to millions of their subjects.