"So Joe and Jane Bloggs combined ages 176) have queued for 20 odd hours and as they unsteadily reach the steps, down which Joe has to assist Jane, they see an MP who has just more or less rocked up at a side door and is now ahead of them in line to file past the coffin. How pleased do you think they are going to feel. "
They will probably not be pleased, but plainly there is more than one queue. Life is not fair and we are not all equal. The Russian ambassador gets a seat at the funeral, Joe and Jane Bloggs have to watch on TV.