Jumping The Queue?

[Ken4155]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/mps-skip-queue-to-see-queen-lying-in-state-as-general-public-wait-for-hours/ar-AA11RgHE?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=76c8b9a6f8fa4d1a935a8b6ef301f664

[pimplyteen]

Well they are very busy. ??

[Paigntonian]

Just common sense. If I had to queue behind Corbyn for five hours it would spoil my day.

[jno]

can't complain about journalists, I suppose, if you want your newspaper on time rather than hours late. MPs, though, they're not working at the moment, are they?

[Ken4155]

I could well understand it if they were working and all sort of went together. And what's with the 4 guests?? Meanwhile, the frail old plebs must queue unsteadily for hours on end to pay their respects. Rank certainly does have it's privileges.

[douglas9401]

And rank sums up most of them.

[theshedman]

From what I heard Theresa May and her husband joined the normal queue and waited for their turn to see the Queen so good on her for that.

[Ken4155]

theshedman, where did you hear that. according to the link, she did not appear to have had to endure a long wait in the queue.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11214935/Ex-PM-Theresa-curtsies-Queens-coffin-attends-lying-state.html

[theshedman]

The reporter on BBC said they had but then it was the BBC so never know if it is true or not.

[Paigntonian]

I wonder how the police could provide security for ex-PMs if they had to join the main queue. The answer, of course, is that it would be wholly impractical. And when three MPs have been the victims of violent assaults in the past few years, and two of them killed, it really is common sense.

[Ken4155]

Given the number of interviews of those queuing that have been televised, i would have thought had TM and her hubby been in the long queue, one of the tv stations would have interviewed her.

[Ken4155]

It would have made much more common sense to have all those MPs who wanted to pay their respects, do so en masse. Perhaps before the general public were allowed in.

[Paigntonian]

Ken: That would have been a very sensible move.

[pimplyteen]

Oh god the reporters are running out of ideas
Questions to the public consist of... What time did you get here, how long have you been waiting, what did you think off the Queen, will you miss her, have you needed a pee yet, what have you bought with you to eat, will you be glad you came. Will you be giving £3 a month to save the corgis. :0)

[ichkeria]

They are in a separate queue, surely?
They won't be pushing anyone back

[ichkeria]

There is an article in the Times today by Tom Whipple, who queued for 26 hours, just to be no 22 in the queue (he ended up getting a yellow wristband with "30" on it

[Ken4155]

Ich, "They are in a separate queue, surely?" So Joe and Jane Bloggs combined ages 176) have queued for 20 odd hours and as they unsteadily reach the steps, down which Joe has to assist Jane, they see an MP who has just more or less rocked up at a side door and is now ahead of them in line to file past the coffin. How pleased do you think they are going to feel.

[naomi24]

//Oh god the reporters are running out of ideas //

I thought you said you weren't watching it, pimply.

[douglas9401]

You don't have to watch every event of this type to know the simpering guff that's going to flow between journo and public.

[pimplyteen]

Protect the NHS don't queue if you are of elderly age or have medical problems. Hospitals in London are already struggling to cope. :0)

[naomi24]

//You don't have to watch every event of this type to know the simpering guff that's going to flow between journo and public. //

He is watching it though. ;o)