Jimmy Wales

The queen, you know, her husband has died.

She's in Westminster Abbey, the church for the funeral, and she's sitting literally all alone.

No family, no nobody, because they had to protect the queen from COVID.

Oh.

Okay, fine.

So that's very moving.

It's like, oh, these are really tough times, and I really love the queen.

She's just no trouble at all.

She's great.

And then it emerges a little while later that the night before in Number 10 Downing Street, which is like the equivalent of the White House, they were having a party.

And people were like, are you kidding me?

Like at a time when none of us are supposed to be doing anything, you are having a party while the queen's got to, like, that's just not okay.

guy right yeah yeah yeah no and it's exactly like oh wow like that piece of trust and and you know like the queen like whatever your views are in the abstract on the monarchy like people trusted the queen sure you know and so actually when she came out at the beginning i mean they they trot the queen out everybody listens and she says this is a serious thing we've all got to stay home we will meet again brilliant and everybody's like all right yeah we're british we're

They don't have to follow any of those people who are supposed to be in charge of the country.

Right.

Not OK.

Not OK at all.

And so that kind of stuff, it's bad in the moment, but it's also corrosive in a longer term way.

You know that you're suddenly like and, you know, if you've got a situation where people are like, well, they're all liars, they're all criminals.

Now I'm going to vote.