While all this was going on the present occupier of number 10 was refining the venerable arts of self-abuse and joint rolling. But those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it and it could be that this years royal nuptials have been a case of the worst kind of political premature ejaculation; that this time around when it comes to trouble at mill the best is yet to come.
Friday 30 December 2011
A royal wedding too soon?
National Archive files released under the 30 Year Rule show just how worried the Thatcher cabinet were about the 1981 riots. CS gas used on the mainland for the first time, a partial evacuation of Liverpool considered and preparations made to combat further acts of rebellion. In the end everything quietened down and the next time that the masses hit the streets it was to cheer Charles and Di. The old royal wedding trick came up trumps again.
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First sign of trouble like the eighties there'll be a royal death and we'll all be hanging our heads in grief instead of organising. If I was phil or brenda I'd be putting the food tester taster back on the pay roll; this cabinet is ruthlessly ideological and they'd sacrifice a royal or two to keep the bonuses up and the city kerchinging.
They have a Royal Jubilee lined up for early June. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/8948142/The-Royal-Barge-star-of-the-show-for-Diamond-Jubilee-River-Pageant-is-revealed.html
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