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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: mantahatch on 06 June 2009, 18:19:40
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
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but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Exactly what I said to SWMBO
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Agreed! :y :y :y
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Apparently it was the veterans booing and shouting "Where's the Queen?" (in reference to the failure of Brown to organise the presence of HRH). Personally, I think the only ones allowed to boo are the veterans since they are the mates of the fallen.
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He got booed cos he deserved to get booed.
Simple as that.
>:(
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He got booed cos he deserved to get booed.
Simple as that.
>:(
But as Mantahatch says ... there's a time & place.
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
well siad MH i agree 100% with you on that mate :y
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I have been watching the News 24 coverage all day, and very good and emotional it has been too.
Went to Arromanches, Omaha Beach, American Cemetary etc etc during our Normandy holiday last month and have been deeply moved by the stories of the heroes who took part in it.
Dont start me off about that Brown muppet, lets just pay respect to those who fought and died on this historic day.
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I have been watching the News 24 coverage all day, and very good and emotional it has been too.
Went to Arromanches, Omaha Beach, American Cemetary etc etc during our Normandy holiday last month and have been deeply moved by the stories of the heroes who took part in it.
:yDont start me off about that Brown muppet, lets just pay respect to those who fought and died on this historic day.
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here here order order he is a muppet
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Apparently it was the veterans booing and shouting "Where's the Queen?" (in reference to the failure of Brown to organise the presence of HRH). Personally, I think the only ones allowed to boo are the veterans since they are the mates of the fallen.
Christ, now Brown's getting the blame for who the French invite - fact is the 65th wasn't considered one of the "big" celebrations ie 50th, 60th, 75th etc and it was never the intention to invite the queen - only when he media went nuts was something arranged - nothing to do with Brown, or would you like a PM who tells the Queen what to do - I'm sure the palace, had they wanted the Queen to attend, would have had their wish.
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Apparently it was the veterans booing and shouting "Where's the Queen?" (in reference to the failure of Brown to organise the presence of HRH). Personally, I think the only ones allowed to boo are the veterans since they are the mates of the fallen.
Christ, now Brown's getting the blame for who the French invite - fact is the 65th wasn't considered one of the "big" celebrations ie 50th, 60th, 75th etc and it was never the intention to invite the queen - only when he media went nuts was something arranged - nothing to do with Brown, or would you like a PM who tells the Queen what to do - I'm sure the palace, had they wanted the Queen to attend, would have had their wish.
Yes Bannjaxx, it is not often I feel sorry for Gordon Brown, but I think if the boos were over the Queen not being invited that was most unfair. :( It had little to do with him. ::) ::)
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Totally agree, very poor taste to boo at a time like that :(
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Totally agree, very poor taste to boo at a time like that :(
Some may say that it was in poor taste that Brown was even there in the first place of course....
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I heard the shouts but never knew what they were for, in my opinion, Gordon Brown has not earned the right to be there, but he represents the British public, and Jeering is totally out of place there.
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Apparently it was the veterans booing and shouting "Where's the Queen?" (in reference to the failure of Brown to organise the presence of HRH). Personally, I think the only ones allowed to boo are the veterans since they are the mates of the fallen.
Christ, now Brown's getting the blame for who the French invite - fact is the 65th wasn't considered one of the "big" celebrations ie 50th, 60th, 75th etc and it was never the intention to invite the queen - only when he media went nuts was something arranged - nothing to do with Brown, or would you like a PM who tells the Queen what to do - I'm sure the palace, had they wanted the Queen to attend, would have had their wish.
Yes Bannjaxx, it is not often I feel sorry for Gordon Brown, but I think if the boos were over the Queen not being invited that was most unfair. :( It had little to do with him. ::) ::)
.......irrespective of the reason Ms Zoom the whole episode could have been handled better in the first place. It's a natural consequence of this rudderless administration ;) ;)
Piss up and brewery are two words that readily spring to mind :y
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Lets just remember today as being about the veterans, on all sides, and their famillies
:'(
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And let's all remember just how many British soldiers were there,if you believe the Americans ,they were the only ones there!
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Apparently it was the veterans booing and shouting "Where's the Queen?" (in reference to the failure of Brown to organise the presence of HRH). Personally, I think the only ones allowed to boo are the veterans since they are the mates of the fallen.
Christ, now Brown's getting the blame for who the French invite - fact is the 65th wasn't considered one of the "big" celebrations ie 50th, 60th, 75th etc and it was never the intention to invite the queen - only when he media went nuts was something arranged - nothing to do with Brown, or would you like a PM who tells the Queen what to do - I'm sure the palace, had they wanted the Queen to attend, would have had their wish.
I'm merely saying that there is a belief that Downing Street encouraged Sarkozy to not invite the Queen so that he could get another photo-op with Obama.
It may be an erroneous belief, but there you go.
Also, I am merely saying that the ceremony really belongs to the veterans themselves. They went through the hell that was D-Day and they lost many comrades. If they want to boo someone who, in my view, clearly doesn't give a monkey's about the military anyway (given how poorly equipped our forces are and how many cuts in defence there have been), then they can. I reckon their mates who gave their lives would have felt the same if they had been here to tell the tale.
That's my personal view, and I'm sticking to it.
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Lest we forget......RIP , HEROES.
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I have just spent the afternoon watching the D Day ceromony on BBC. Very moving.
As an aside, and I do not want to open wounds, but when gordon brown made his speech he was actually booed by quite a few people in the crowd. I don't like brown but I thought this was the wrong time and place for booeing.
Apparently it was the veterans booing and shouting "Where's the Queen?" (in reference to the failure of Brown to organise the presence of HRH). Personally, I think the only ones allowed to boo are the veterans since they are the mates of the fallen.
Christ, now Brown's getting the blame for who the French invite - fact is the 65th wasn't considered one of the "big" celebrations ie 50th, 60th, 75th etc and it was never the intention to invite the queen - only when he media went nuts was something arranged - nothing to do with Brown, or would you like a PM who tells the Queen what to do - I'm sure the palace, had they wanted the Queen to attend, would have had their wish.
I'm merely saying that there is a belief that Downing Street encouraged Sarkozy to not invite the Queen so that he could get another photo-op with Obama.
It may be an erroneous belief, but there you go.
Also, I am merely saying that the ceremony really belongs to the veterans themselves. They went through the hell that was D-Day and they lost many comrades. If they want to boo someone who, in my view, clearly doesn't give a monkey's about the military anyway (given how poorly equipped our forces are and how many cuts in defence there have been), then they can. I reckon their mates who gave their lives would have felt the same if they had been here to tell the tale.
That's my personal view, and I'm sticking to it.
.........most of the convoluted, contrived and confused results of the many decisions concerning public matters can be laid fairly and squarely at the front door of that squalid place - and at the hands of its key holder ;) ;)
Once again the nation is brought into disrepute by this shower on incompetents :y