h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Like ****. I'd rather she saw the country for what it is. A declining sense of civic responsibility coupled with swinging cuts to local government funding is turning the UK into a trash heap.

I'm not going to pretend I like the country I live in the way it is right now. For anyone.

Do they propose to turn the whole country into a Potemkin village?

I wonder if anyone thought to run this idea past her.

I expect that will be their eventual intention. Everywhere outside the gated communities will be tarted up for thge Queen's birthday. As you know, my attitude towards royalty veers from utter indifference to outright contempt. I think that a fitting act would be to gather up all the nation's litter and dump it liberally all over the Royal Parks.

I see royalty as a form of imposed celebrity, entailing a certain amount of house arrest--highly compensated, but involuntary. A presidential candidate chooses to run for the post.

And you can get rid of a President if they start opening their mouth and making inflammatory statements on sensitive subjects. Just like the US will do with Pres. Trump