He’s only shit and soil now like anybody else

It turns out disgust at enforced mourning is something of a British tradition:

If the mass hysteria about the death of the nation’s racist grandpa is this bad already, imagine what happens when Beth pops her clogs. Eight days of mourning, BBC with wall to wall coverage on both BBC One and Two, the shutting down of BBC Four yesterday, all the pious assholes who couldn’t say anything as covid racked up 150,000 deaths due to Tory complacency now scolding anyone not in the mood to mourn… All the things that the British public was accused of after Diana died, now enforced by the government, the media and an army of finger wagging neighbour watch types on Twitter and Facebook.

But in the end nobody cares but the sort of royalist simp who thinks it’s understandable to be worried about the colour your grandchild will be born with.