Posted on 05/16/2022 12:12:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"I applaud her for that, and that's a fantastic achievement," the Sex Pistols frontman added of the upcoming Platinum Jubilee
John Lydon has said in a new interview that, ahead of the Platinum Jubilee, he is “actually really, really proud of the Queen for surviving and doing so well”.
The Sex Pistols frontman was speaking ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, which will be celebrated in the UK from June 2-5 to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne.
To mark the occasion, Lydon’s former band are reissuing their classic anti-monarchy single ‘God Save The Queen’. Speaking to Piers Morgan on TalkTV last week about the monarchy, Lydon explained that ‘God Save The Queen’ was “anti-royalist, but it’s not anti-human”.
“I’ve got to tell the world this. Everyone presumes that I’m against the royal family as human beings, I’m not,” Lydon said. “I’m actually really, really proud of the Queen for surviving and doing so well.
“I applaud her for that, and that’s a fantastic achievement. I’m not a curmudgeon about that.”
Lydon did add: “I just think that if I’m paying my tax money to support this system, I should have a say so in how it’s spent.”
The singer also said that he doesn’t believe the monarchy in the UK will last much longer “because Prince Charles is not going to be able to handle it”, adding: “This is the man that plays Pink Floyd to his cabbages.”
“That’s a shame in itself too, because I do love pageantry,” Lydon continued. “I’m a football fan, how could I not? I like watching royal weddings, because I love watching Spitfires and B-52s and the like flying over the palace. I get quite emotional with all that.
“I love me country, I love me people and everything about it. But if there’s problems within it, I think I have the right to say so.”
Speaking to NME recently, Vivienne Westwood said that while Lydon was a “sensation” with the Sex Pistols, he “didn’t have any more ideas” when the band split.
He already turned down and M.B.E. and O.B.E, wgst makes you think he’d accept knighthood?
And that’s all the Queen’s fault? She has held the line and stood for a lot of important traditional values, and doesn’t deserve a trashing like this song.
(And think about what our own Nation looked like before, too. Which of our ‘monarchs’ is responsible for that?)
It was always very bad manners, especially for a woman of her age, class, and job description.
FWIW, I think in addition to serious health issues, the queen is cognitively impaired.
For decades I was family caregiver for elderly loved ones, some the queen’s age and older.
I think the House of Windsor and the UK’s Deep State are hiding one helluva lot from the British public.
I haven’t seen any sign of cognitive issues; and as for health, I want to see you at her age.
I'm 72 and take "blood thinners" and get bruises on my hands and arms all the time. Usually, I have earthly idea how they were bruised.
We’ve had multiple centenarians in the family.
I stand by what I posted.
When did you last have a personal conversation with the Queen?
“She has held the line and stood for a lot of important traditional values”
Lets talk about World War I.
The British Royal Family was related to the monarchs of Germany and Russia.
More details:
It was a family dispute between royal families.
The “tradition” of Britain was destroyed in that insane war—and the Royal Family did nothing to stop it.
I leave World War II treason by the royal family as an exercise for you.
The royal family hit the self-destruct button on the British Empire.
The backs of both hands at the same time was what I found really curious, physically speaking.
But the cognitive issues, if there are any, are of even greater concern since she’s still the monarch.
And especially given the fact that Andrew and Harry are still councilors of state.
He once said he was too scared to kneel before her with a sword in her hand.
He hasn’t done enough for the British economy, culture or charity to get a knighthood.
He should get a knighthood for being the only one with the balls to speak out against Jimmy Savile.
I’m not interested in your simplistic reduction of a very complex history - which even historians are still tearing apart - to ‘a family dispute’.
It apparently has become a part of western culture to reward disastrous failure and declare it “patriotic”.
The British Royal Family had the means, the motive and the opportunity to prevent World War I if they had chosen to do so.
They did not make that choice.
That made them traitors to their country.
Once you “get” that then the song we are discussing starts to make sense.
More cognitively impaired than most British people?
They changed their name so people would apparently forget they were German.
Yes, I understand British history from that era, but to call that song alot of wisdom is embarrassingly laughable.
Bizarre.
He was singing about the queen as an institution not an individual. It was recognized at the time as an anti-monarchy sone not an anti Elizabeth song.
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