The Queen's speech...

Osem · 18-11-2009, 11:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8364858.stm

Was it worth all the effort and expense? The usual reissued/rebranded promises and populist guff most of which we all know will never happen! I may be wrong but I think I detected a hint of sarcasm in the Queen's address. Perhaps even she's had enough of this charade...

NoKnowledge · 18-11-2009, 11:07

From what I heard/read, the speech isn't hers (voiced by her yes but not written by her) and she's in her 58th year of opening the parliament.

Edit> ooops, it already ssays all this in the BBC link

18-11-2009, 11:17

More of the same half-assed old tosh. In other words.... Same snot, different day....

Gary L · 18-11-2009, 11:26

I get bored with all the queen's speeches. all waffle really.
I often wonder if she's ever going to do or say anything to make her worthy of being a queen.

NoKnowledge · 18-11-2009, 11:29

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.....worthy of being a queen.

Like what ?

Gary L · 18-11-2009, 11:40

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Originally Posted by NoKnowledge

Like what ?

I don't know. she hasn't really got any power has she. she's just a British tradition. something for the Chinese tourists to get all excited about

When you tell them she has no real powers, they say ow cwap i dat?

Osem · 18-11-2009, 12:13

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Originally Posted by NoKnowledge

From what I heard/read, the speech isn't hers (voiced by her yes but not written by her) and she's in her 58th year of opening the parliament.

Oh yes of course, she only ever reads what's she's given. My point is, is it worth all the effort and is anyone going to be taken in?

Flyboy · 18-11-2009, 13:08

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Just blatent electioneering hot air, there's no time for most of these proposals to actually make it onto the statute book and as the Tories have said they'll not co-operate in the Lords in passing them.

This is what annoyed me about Michael Howard's claptrap this morning on Breakfast. He was bleating ion about how the Labour party are using it as a start to their election campaign, when every government, of all sides, do exactly the same. Thatcher, Major, Wilson and Callaghan did exactly the same.

By the way, he also went on spouting on about how this government has led us into recession, but conveniently forgetting that he played a big part in the same government, who brought us two recessions in one decade. And not forgetting that he was one of the chief architects of the pol tax. The only government tax legislation, in modern history, to bring about massive civil unrest.

LondonRoad · 18-11-2009, 13:11

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Like what ?

I abdicate.

18-11-2009, 13:13

Pointless speech made by someone who looked and sounded thoroughly bored with it. This wsn't any serious declaration of intent it was the labour general election manifesto being read out by someone who has some credibility which no one in labour has anymore.

Flyboy · 18-11-2009, 13:25

Does anyone have a link to previous years' speeches, to compare her tone of voice.

**Damien** · 18-11-2009, 13:53

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Does anyone have a link to previous years' speeches, to compare her tone of voice.

Last year she sung it. With backing vocals.

Flyboy · 18-11-2009, 13:56

Now that would have been something to have seen.

Ravenheart · 18-11-2009, 15:02

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Last year she sung it. With backing vocals.

Queen live at the palace of Westminster

I too think she had a hint of despair in her voice, she should have let prince Philip do it, that would have been most interesting.

As others have already said most of these were 1997 manifesto pledges that still haven't happened. Just more hot air from a government in turmoil.