Thankfully I am on foreign shores at this time, and as I observe the situation in the UK I feel a sense of dejavu.
I was sure I have seen this establishment / state enforcement of mourning before, and then I remembered, because the last couple of days have shown a sinister likeness to North Korea when the last leader died.
People were forced to mourn and also forced to make public displays of that mourning.
If you didn’t tug your forelock hard enough or weep enough tears or wring your hands and wail in a suitably despairing peasant fashion, then woe betide you.
The current spate of cancellation of sports events, the closing of shops and even comedy clubs, the news blackout and wall to wall repetitive canonisation of someone happy to shake hands and entertain, despots, criminals, mass murderers etc, is imo is quite bizarre and has sinister undertones.
It is an insideous way of the establishment maintaining the status quo and expecting the peasantry to swallow and blithely accept the myth of the requirement of a monarchy in the 21st century.
The only difference I can see between the behaviours of the N Korean establishment and the UK is that we can at least disagree openly in public about it.
Peter Bentley
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