[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

There was a distasteful side to the Sunday pageant -
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant | UK news | The Guardian

jobseekers were bussed in from Bristol Bath and Plymouth to work unpaid as stewards, and had to sleep rough under London Bridge.

The simple truth is that this lot got a free ride up to London to see the Queen; there are many, many others who wish they had been so lucky. It's the usual nonsense that we have come to expect from the Guardian. I only have to see that pinko liberal rag in my local newsagents and I need to vomit.