Royalty

Morrisons are making their tills quieter. Muted beeps for the queen.

The campaign group, Republic, has condemned arrests of anti-monarchy
protestors in the last few days and is to write to police forces to
express concern.

“We condemn these arrests in the strongest possible terms,” said
Graham Smith, a spokesperson for Republic.

Free speech is fundamental to any democracy. At a time when the media
is saturated with fawning over a king appointed without discussion or
consent, it is even more important. We will be writing to police
forces around the country, raising these concerns. We intent to
organise protests at the coronation and will expect those protests to
be allowed to proceed peacefully.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2022/sep/13/king-charles-iii-northern-ireland-queues-view-queen-coffin-edinburgh-london-live#maincontent

Apparently those people staying at Centre Parcs before / after the 19th have to leave and come back.

What the fuck.

Apparently those people staying at Centre Parcs before / after the 19th have to leave and come back.

That's going to get changed between now and then I'd have thought, kicking people out of accommodation is nuts

It's fucking mental. Also they're offering no early check-in Tuesday so we can't get into our lodge until 4pm. They're also not currently allowing people to change activities they had booked on Tuesday.

The comments on Twitter are universally negative.

Corporate grief is well fucking shit.

Yeah, there are better ways to manage giving everyone a day off than totally shutting up shop. Maybe even reduced services with a lighter staffing level with a partial refund of that day. Then stagger the paid days off for folks who worked that day. I have a team dealing with international clients and some of them have already asked if they can just work Monday and take it off another day.

Hounslow (apparently) showing respect...

https://twitter.com/NevWilson/status/1569343591444582400

Ronnie Pickering?

Didn't realise she'd died from 3rd degree burns, v. sad.

I like that she's still smoking.

I guess they've weighing up the long term implications of being cancelled / DM shamed vs the lost revenue and short term loss of good will.

I wonder if it'd be a different call had it still been school holidays?

Out of curiosity will their actions change your decision to visit in the future?

(full disclosure I'm heavily influenced by listening to the Bunker on the nursery run this morning)

This was reported on in the Guardian or FT recently – that over-cautious PR consultants are driving a lot of the cancelled event decisions, which is not landing well with customers and zero-hours staff but is arguably safer in the social media age. They cancelled the last night of the Proms, which could have been billed as a huge celebration of the monarchy but even that was deemed too high a risk.

I imagine the crossover in demographics between CentreParcs customers and the most deranged pro-monarchy beliefs is fairly large

This is my first visit to centre parcs since I was a kid.

If we still go, they can fuck themselves for a second visit.

Not according to the twitter fury.

Deranged pro-monarchy people probably don't use Twitter!

errrrrrrr. try any of the links on previous pages.

Search on Meghan. They're legion.

I told a guy to drop his bike off on Monday, he said it's a bank holiday for the funeral so should he bring it Tuesday instead, I said if he could manage to drop it off I'll work through the grief, I ain't got time for more time off for this shit.

They cancelled the last night of the Proms, which could have been billed as a huge celebration of the monarchy but even that was deemed too high a risk.

Could've been a great emotional patriotic rousing moving blah blah experience for everyone involved. Such a basic (thoughtless) decision to cancel.

Fair play.

Just genuinely curious about how long a consumer's memory is.

There was some product or shop I sacked off in retribution, but ironically I've totally forgotten what it is now.

Anyway I can never hear Centre Parks without thinking of the classic mumsnet meme.

I guess there's also an element of your ability to adapt.

Idk but is the Proms so meticulously planned that appropriately deferential* last min changes are so hard that it's just easier to cancel?

*whatever a panel from the Express and Mail deem that to be I guess

Nah, I reckon it's more of a lib dem than tory vibe.

Football definitely seemed one that was hugely worried about negative publicity whereas I reckon your average football fan is more patriotic than your average man on the street.