This is a bit of a bug bear of mine. We get Christmas shite promoted in September, Valentines Day crap from Boxing Day onwards, Fathers Day (June) in early April, Eid (what? whenever), Easter (previously from January but now cancelled) and so on. Supermarkets are evidently not averse to making a bit of coin many months ahead of an actual event.
So, why is it that on visiting any Supermarket’s home page (or actual shop) two weeks (I’m nomming this 18 May) before the Platinum Jubilee weekend you can take note of the glaring omission of anything vaguely suggesting the Union or English flag.
I appreciate that royal occasions are not everyone on here’s cup of tea, but I’m a proud patriot desperately clinging on to any last vestiges of English tradition amidst a rapidly evolving global cesspool shitshow of dumbed-down diversity and ensuing squalor. The millennia-worth of monarchy & its pageantry and history characteristic of these isles, of which the Queen – whatever her own ancestry – is the most recent manifestation and symbol, is something I’m happy to celebrate in these circumstances. Even Waitrose (holder of 2 royal warrants, is ignoring it).
What really pisses me off, ultimately, is the suspicion that our national flag, head of state, or anything symbolising an old nation with a very distinct culture and values, is somehow offensive and “non-inclusive” to a small but ever growing minority of apparently “oppressed” and their woke wanker supporters and wanktivists.
Well fuck the Supermarkets, personally I’ll observe the weekend with supplies from my local east Anglian butcher, veg from my Victory garden and booze from the still in my shed.
God Save the Queen! and England / Britain / the West
Links (said supermarkets may have begrudgingly updated their sites 2 days before June as a nod to the occasion) –
et al.
Nominated by: Fuckwittery




