The queen’s funeral is absurdly excessive at this point.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 16, 2022
Two football teams who played the weekend after the Queen died are being investigated and will be "dealt with in the strongest possible terms" https://t.co/i4lFrLOTIC
— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 14, 2022
I've just had a message from my car insurance company telling me how sad they are that the Queen has died. They wanted me to know how sad they were. And how much they respected her.
— AR (@llewelyn20) September 16, 2022
That's enough now.
The important thing is that you filmed it. 👍 https://t.co/IXjNIbZQah
— GrieveWatch (@GrieveWatch) September 10, 2022
You did what now? 🤦♀️ pic.twitter.com/2fUhEOsDGt
— Lefty on the shelf..... 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 😷🐶 (@justwearmasks) September 16, 2022
It’s gone from bard to verse. pic.twitter.com/6ehHxvHc81
— GrieveWatch (@GrieveWatch) September 16, 2022
— GrieveWatch (@GrieveWatch) September 13, 2022Even Cyril the Swan is paying respect:
Cyril the Swan paying respect to his former owner Queen Elizabeth II pic.twitter.com/k6dDx0wBEM
— Mascots Minute Silence (@MascotSilence) September 13, 2022
I haven’t been able to even look at Donkey Kong since she died. https://t.co/Q7kIqsMOAx
— Michael Legge (@michaellegge) September 13, 2022
Shout out to the wellwisher who has stuffed a broccoli into the Buckingham Palace gates.#queen #floraltributes pic.twitter.com/aoY2C1Lfq3
— Lucy Bannerman (@TimesLucy) September 9, 2022
Since the queen died last Thursday, the country has ground to a halt.The queen is dead for breakfast, the queen is dead for lunch, and you’ll want to leave room for a nice hearty portion of the queen is dead for dinner, too. People are still going to work, sure, but there is no press except press about the queen being dead.Every business in the country—from chicken shops to pork jerky brads, chemists to cobblers—have felt the need to issue a public statement of grief about the queen dying. Supermarkets have turned down the beeps on their self-checkout machines to mark their depth of feeling for the queen. Our weather forecaster, the Met Office, has cut back the number of weather reports it is issuing “as a mark of respect during this time of national mourning.” An amusement park company, Center Parcs, announced its intention to kick all vacationers staying in their parks out for one day, the queen’s funeral, before realizing just how deranged that would be and making a U-turn.But there is also something more sinister brewing here. Hospital appointments on the day of the queen’s funeral are cancelled. Food banks are closed. Normal people’s funerals are also cancelled.On the day the queen died, Liz Truss, our new prime minister, quietly lifted the ban on fracking in this country and also announced a plan to relieve Britons of crippling energy bills this winter without explaining where that money is going to come from.I’m not suggesting that anybody offed the queen early for political expediency, but parliament will now be closed for a month: again, to respect the dead queen.This could hardly come at a worse time for the country.
