I meant good call to ping Lucy, an actual Brit, to get her opinion.
I know she isn’t the only Brit here at FR, just the only one I can recall.
I am actually not an anti monarchist. I leave that to the folks in the UK to work out.
If it has been the custom to meet with the Queen and pay some sort of homage, I think he should have done so.
If he has problems about the procedure, he should have worked to change it after the fact.
Stupid politicians do stupid things everywhere in the world.
And I honestly have no problem with Mr Corbyn in this case (although I have a lot of other issues with him because he's a rampant socialist and I think some of his ideas on British defence are actually very dangerous). It is not uncommon for a new Privy Counsellor to take a while to attend their first meeting, and as long as it is because of a prior engagement or an important engagement that's perfectly acceptable - and I have no real reason to doubt that is the case - if he had decided that he was planning to never attend, he could say so without consequences. There are also procedures in place to allow a person to accept the position without attending and if he chooses to take advantage of those, that is his right. If he was asking for special treatment, for the rules to be changed for him, I'd object, but he isn't.
One of the strengths of the British Constitutional Monarchy is that a person living under it is allowed to disagree with it, and even to work to change it, as long as they do so through peaceful, constitutional means. Mr Corbyn has shown no signs that he has any intention of doing other than this.