Just been listening to a bit of a royalist love-in on 5Live as Charlie makes a good impression with the boat people of Somerset-Under-Water….and the BBC ‘Royal’ correspondent.
The BBC had no problem with his highly political comments…in fact they give them the headline on the website:
Somerset flood delay a ‘tragedy’, says Prince Charles
How times change when it suits…normally if Charlie interferes in the political process by writing letters expressing his opinions there are cries of outrage…not so here when he’s slating the Coalition….and promoting climate change….suddenly the ‘non-political’ Prince is a valued commentator to whom Government must respond…..
Asked to respond to the Prince’s comments, David Cameron’s official spokesman said: “The prime minister has repeatedly said… that the situation that a number of communities in the Somerset area find themselves in is unacceptable.
Prince Charles is the voice of Mel Phillips, not the people
From Chelsea barracks to education, the Prince of Wales’s abuse of position cries out for constitutional action.
Way back in 2012 we learn from the BBC that the Prince’s comments must be kept secret or he would “forfeit his position of political neutrality” and would as such “be seriously damaging to his role as a future monarch”.
Charles in charge?
The attorney general has blocked the publication of a raft of letters that Prince Charles wrote to seven government departments between 1 September 2004 and 1 April 2005. He said these letters revealed the Prince’s “most deeply held views”, they were “particularly frank” and “would potentially have undermined his position of political neutrality”.
The Guardian newspaper wanted them published – and a freedom of information tribunal agreed that they should be – because there was a public interest in doing so, on grounds of transparency, better understanding of relations between government and the monarchy, and those allegations of inappropriate lobbying by the Prince on health, architecture and other policy.
But the attorney overturned the tribunal’s ruling, saying publication of these letters would “forfeit his position of political neutrality” and would as such “be seriously damaging to his role as a future monarch”.
All this raises a rather interesting question: where do you draw the line?
No calls about his forfeiting his political neutrality and to stand down as Heir apparent?
He has to be the BBC’s flavour of the month since he went public a few days ago on AGW.
Prince of Wales hits out at climate change deniers… labelling them the ‘headless chicken brigade’
I wonder what his carbon footprint looks like. Funny how all these ‘greenies’ feel justified having a larger one than most
while they ‘save the planet’.
Well, there is one benefit.
Owen Paterson will now be able to replace all those New Labour Common Purpose EnvironMENTAL morons who got him into trouble, and who spent all that money on dickey birds and butterflies.
He can now replace them with scientifically minded Ukip/Mensa types, who will spend money on practical environmental issues such as flood defences, dredging and learning from the Dutch about drainage.
Trusr arch eco-loon Charles to do a bit of grief tourism around the Somerset Levels.
Doubtless he`d have agreed with the EU/EA that we need to bin the pumping stations and let nature find its own level…that we drown a few thousand badgers won`t be too much of a problem, so long as Thatcher and nasty mankind can get the blame.
And the ecoloons at the BBC/Guardian concur with the walking wing nut…except for any hints that Muslims might not be an unalloyed blessing to Christians in Islamic lands…which somehow does NOT get the smiling geriatric oaf straight onto the BBC.
i am sorry to all these royalists out, there but prince charles is really mugging me off lately with his rhetoric,this guy waltzes around the country as if he is henry v111 looking for heretics to behead who dont believe in his twisted views on the climate and the eco system,old big ears likes insulting people in the most vilest ways these days over issues like climate change in which he seems to think that nobody who has a different view to him should be locked up in the tower of london and hung, drawn and quartered as climate change deniers in front of the howling climate change fanatic mobs,the time has come for prince charles to stick to what he is good at doing and that is talking to his flowers up at balmoral in scotland and leave us all alone.
All right now, someone tell me how Chuckles the Clown ISN’T exercising the Bagehotian “advise, encourage, and warn,” which are supposed to be the rights and the duties of the King. Starting in a few years early, it seems, but y’know, he may want to hit the ground running.
You really have to come to grips with the fact that this is George III, not Henry VIII, we’re dealing with here. George sold his birthright for the mess of pottage we like to call the Civil List, and, while he was a diplomatic back-channel, to be sure, and he also had to do a bit of work behind the scenes to try to keep the fractious Parliament of his day from dissolving more often than that of Italy since the War, which dissolutions would have had the effect of making Britain look weak (and George succeeded, with the long Frederick North and, later, Pitt the Younger premierships to maintain the appearance of strength), he nevertheless essentially set the monarchy on the course of being an advocate for beneficial things that don’t seem to be at first glance politically fraught or controversial. The King’s hobbyhorses essentially get to be ridden as long as it doesn’t scare the real horses nor cost too much money.
But of course, George was, shall we say, not wrapped too tightly at times, it must be allowed. How compos mentis (as opposed to “compost heap”) is the King-in-waiting? To put it another way– who’s going to bell the cat, and tell him he’s a looney tune? The State broadcaster? HA! Especially if they like what he stands for.
Don’t bank on that Richard, ministers have feet of clay, from the mud produced by scurrilous civil servants, who serve none but themselves.
The BBC failed to mention that Charlie boy is one of the most deluded ecolunatics of them all !