For his monologue this week, U.K commentator Neil Oliver notes the miles-long lines of British citizens, paying their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lays in state, as yet another appearance of the silent majority. The silent majority do not often surface, but when they do -whether in politics or culture- they make a dramatic appearance from every corner of the United Kingdom.
The political rulers of the constitutional monarchy would be well served to take heed of the millions who are traveling from every town, village and hamlet to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II. Their very visible appearance is representative of who really holds the power in the nation. Politicians, regardless of their sense of grand importance, are mere fleas when compared the scale of an assembled nation.
A united people have more power than any small group of rulers. Their assembly in collective mourning is a visible and timely reminder to those who have disconnected themselves from this understanding. WATCH:
[Transcript] – When Winston Churchill lay in state in Westminster Hall, in 1965, journalist Vincent Mulchrone described two rivers running through London, one made of people, dark and silent as the night-time Thames.
Now another river of other people is flowing through an altogether different London, all the way to that same Hall and, this time, the coffin of The Queen. Westminster Hall is still there. Britain is still there. I’ve wondered if it’s a glimpse, at least in part, of the silent majority we hear so much about but seldom see.
It would be wrong to generalise, to imagine we could know the motivations of every person in that long line. But so many people moving as one, in the same direction at the same time surely suggests something shared. My hunch, for what it’s worth, is that many are also grieving the passing of the world they grew up in – a world of long-lived certainties – old certainties that seem to have died too at some point in the past few years.
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