‘Moron’: Britons shocked at ‘rabid’ Lidia Thorpe’s protest

Britons couldn’t believe Lidia Thorpe’s behaviour in front of the King and Queen, with many appalled someone so ‘disrespectful’ is a parliamentarian.

If Lidia Thorpe’s parliamentary antics heckling King Charles were designed to pique the outrage of the British, she has achieved water cooler status.

From Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer down, there was shock at her behaviour, which came just moments after His Majesty had delivered an address to the Australian parliament.

Sir Keir was moved to defend the monarch saying: “I think the King is doing a fantastic job, an incredible ambassador, not just for our country, but across the Commonwealth.

“I think he’s doing a fantastic job, and we should remember in the context of health, that he is out there doing his public service notwithstanding the health challenges he himself has had – so I think he’s doing a great job.”

At a suburban gym outside London on Monday afternoon the talk among the weightlifting set was “who was that rabid woman?” One instructor flatly refused to believe she was a parliamentarian, for surely no one elected to serve the people would behave so disrespectfully.

He was only satisfied this was true after googling her name.

When others discovered that Ms Thorpe’s Instagram account included a drawing of a decapitated King Charles, any gentle bonhomie towards Australia’s larrikin ways, or a skerrick of tolerance of her screaming fit as being some sort of democratic protest quickly dissipated.

“How is she not in jail?” asked a man working out. He’s a security guard.

All day Ms Thorpe’s attention-seeking was front of the British newspaper websites, running on television news, much of it focused upon how King Charles was “unruffled”. Comments sections of newspapers were overloaded. None were complimentary of the woman, and only a small portion considered the broader issue of colonialism.

Helen Walshe posted her view of Ms Thorpe as: “Just one of the many people who buy their opinions in a package-Hamas, just stop oil, Xtinction rebellion- from a sort of opinion supermarket: buy one get one free!”

Lidia Thorpe’s possum skin was also condemned by animal lovers. Picture: X

In animal loving Britain, the possum skin draped around Ms Thorpe’s shoulders was also remarked upon.

“Of all the things Thorpe stands against, animal cruelty in the form of her native fur coat isn’t one of them,’’ said one viewer.

There were plenty of people who highlighted how Ms Thorpe’s anger was misplaced, and that it was Canberra, and the Australian people who have the ability to change Australia’s constitution, not the King.

Helen Elliot wrote: “We’re all entitled to our own opinions. My opinion is that she’s a moron.”

Jane Stables submitted: “The fact that this part-indigenous woman had informed journalists in advance that she was going to make this ‘outburst’ proves it was a performative act to achieve publicity. That she was not stopped and denied entrance to the event shows incompetence (or connivance) by Australian authorities. She is just another attention seeker – on the same level as the puerile soup throwing so-called climate protesters – the only difference is that when listening to her hysterical ranting, it seems that she is primarily driven by the potential financial gain of ‘reparations’ – the new mantra based on colonial histories.”

Ms Thorpe was interviewed on Britain’s Sky News telling host Kay Burley that King Charles “can’t be our King”.

“We are the real sovereigns in this country,” Ms Thorpe said. “The King lives in your country, he’s from your country.” She also said King Charles needs to answer for the “thousands of massacre sites in Australia from invasion”.