14 hours

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Sept 22

They cut off the line up after the wait time reached 14 hours.  14 hours to pass a few seconds seeing the Queen’s coffin lying in state in Westminster Hall.

This is England coming to pay tribute.  And I say England advisedly.  Few people on earth are as confident, self-effacing, and resolute as the English.  That’s why England could pass Brexit and then work patiently to find a government to enact their will.  The English lament Brexit not at all; in fact they want the Northern Ireland bit fixed.

Things are not going well in England.  Britain has an immigrant crisis that the European Court of Human Rights is forbidding from being resolved humanely.  Spending is out of control, and there’s going to be an energy crisis this winter.

I cannot help but think that there’s going to be a reckoning soon.  The English people are coming together, standing together, and talking together for as long as 14 hours.  I’m sure the disparity between what they want and what the government’s delivering is being discussed.  And in their English way, they are fearless about letting their thoughts be known to whomever needs to hear them.

The new Truss government is going to have to act boldly and act fast before the English people gather in large numbers again, for a different reason.

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