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I've been involved in a few Livery Company/City things, and I've never met someone like this. Some livery companies still have a strong connection to their trad
by tomatocracy 3y ago
I've been involved in a few Livery Company/City things, and I've never met someone like this. Some livery companies still have a strong connection to their trades and some do still even retain regulatory roles - for example the Scriveners and the Farriers.
Mostly the people who are involved view these things as a combination of a fun day out with the opportunity to meet interesting people and support some form of charitable cause (the older Livery Companies these days are effectively large charitable foundations).
There was quite a good documentary series about the City including the Livery Companies a few years ago called Stephen Fry's Key to the City (you might be able to find some of it on YouTube) - I'm not usually a fan of his but it actually gave a very good insight into it all.
- sandworm101 3y agoSearch youtube for "sovereign citizen". There are thousands out there who are obsessed with license plate issues, people who believe they can issue their own plates because "government" doesn't really exist or that all plates need to be signed with quill and ink. These people will latch onto any old ritual or tradition to justify their warped views.
- Angostura 3y agoYes, but you are trying to connect a largely US-centred type of nuttery with an ancient UK ritual.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoIndeed, you could consider the freemen/sovereign citizen thing to be an ancient US ritual (for definitions of "ancient" applicable to the US).
- compiler-guy 3y agoThe ceremony itself is over 400 years old and its current form is about 170 years old. If there are issue with it as you describe, it shouldn’t be too hard to link to a news story about one.
- _dain_ 3y agoWe don't have license plates. We have number plates.