What is happening to theatres and cinemas? What about restaurants? Are the trains and buses going go be running?
It's been shut down pretty much all summer waiting for the Tories' 5-week election. As for the police, it's an effort to give a crime number, let alone solve anything.
But there is no legitimate reason for postponing the matches and still requiring non-sport work activities to continue, at least outside of London (as the only legitimate reasoning for postponement is lack of availability of adequate support staff due to concurrent mourning events). It’s is arbitrary, by any measure.
As someone else said, switch out “Her Majesty” with “Our Beloved Leader” and you’ve got North Korea’s response to Kim Jong-il passing.
I am all for people showing respect and understand that there is a cultural element to the royal family in the UK, but I don't see how forcing some prolonged shutdown on people and industries translates into any great gesture of respect. It comes across more as forced and some type of grandiose overkill. Respect can be shown in many ways, perhaps a national day of mourning and of course the funeral itself will attract the attention of many people both in and outside of the UK. 10 or 12 days of forced "mourning" to someone outside the UK like myself seems farcical. I apologize if I've offended anyone, but with all the stuff people are dealing with these days why add any unnecessary misery to their lives. After all the shutdowns everyone has endured over the past 2 and one half years the last thing everyday people want is another meaningless, forced shutdown, even its only 12 days.Brilliant
Its fucking absurd if one really thinks about it. Cancelling the games and other such stuff does nothing in terms of showing respect. Its just one more power play orchestrated by the jerk offs in power.