(by John Blackeye) We are satisfied with a Premier who shows up on television a couple of times a week to take stock of the situation and to anticipate what the Government has decided to do for the following days.
Britain, a former European colony, is waiting for the Queen's speech tonight. Needless to say, when we speak of the Queen in the world, we speak of her, of the Queen of England, the immortal we would dare to add. Everything passes, except the Queen Elisabetta II it could sound an English proverb if someone ever intended to coin it.
The fact is that this evening Queen Elizabeth II decided to take the field and speak to the Nation and she did it her way, that is, in a great way. In fact, it is not known why, but since it is an icon halfway between reality and fantasy, between present and past, the Queen always does this effect and so, listening to her, there are not only her subjects, but connected to the BBC there are almost all the TVs in the world, including the Italian ones.
This time the Queen introduced herself to unified networks all over the world as a family mother. The usual detachment that he always wanted to maintain with his subjects did not come out.
This evening we have not seen a Queen without feelings, that austere figure of the English monarchy who also forces children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to respect the royal protocol in interpersonal relationships.
The Queen took the field to encourage the English people to overcome this pandemic, united. This time we have not heard of herd immunity but of useful behavioral rules to be respected rigidly but equally serenely. The invitation was to respect the precautions, on the other hand it is the only weapon that can be used against this virus and then a long applause went out to all those who, as in every other part of the world, leave the house to work every day, despite the outrage of the virus, to allow us - said the Queen - to stay safely at home.
Better times will come, said Elizabeth II, we will return to meet and return to our former life but today all precautions must be taken, staying at home and waiting for everything to pass.
Queen Elizabeth certainly played her role as leader tonight. As mother of the nation took the field to urge strict compliance with the anti-contagion rules and did so trying to encourage a people who, like the rest of the world, found themselves unprepared to face a war against a stranger who is taking away hundreds of people from their families every day .
From a personal point of view, the Queen appeared in excellent shape considering that at the age of ninety-four she did not use glasses to read the long message recorded to the nation. Many would like to be animated by his own healthy optimism that allows him to wish and wish his subjects better days and better times when he is on the threshold of the ninety-fourth birthday.
What about then. God save the Queen.
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