According to Shoreditch, it's now cool to be a flag-waving monarchist
Mike Pollitt | Monday 16 April, 2012 16:15
The Diamond Jubilee on June 3rd draws near, and a press release arrives from The Book Club, one of the busier Shoreditch hangouts.
“Bunting, beer, baking, bowler hats and brass bands. It can only mean one thing – The Book Club’s Diamond Jubilee Street Party is coming to Shoreditch and it’s time to party like its [sic] 1952!”
The event is then described as “affectionate, irreverent, patriotic and very cool”.
Now I grant that “alcohol shop uses public holiday to sell more alcohol” won’t raise many eyebrows.
But it’s another nail in the coffin of Shoreditch’s counter-culture credentials.
After all, the The Book Club is just giving young East Londonites what they want (a party), with the framing they think will be most attractive to them (unironic monarchism).
Republicans must despair, and well they might. If even these kids are choosing to get pissed in honour of Queen and country, then the future of the cause already seems lost.
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