Prince Charles’ green credentials won’t fly when he uses private jets
PRINCE Charles very nearly played a blinder at the World Economic Forum in Davos. While business big-shots and world leaders were arriving at the swanky Swiss resort in their wantonly polluting helicopters, Charles arrived in an environmentally aware electric Jaguar I-Pace. And while US President Donald Trump was sneering at climate “prophets of doom”, with […]
PRINCE Charles very nearly played a blinder at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
While business big-shots and world leaders were arriving at the swanky Swiss resort in their wantonly polluting helicopters, Charles arrived in an environmentally aware electric Jaguar I-Pace.
And while US President Donald Trump was sneering at climate “prophets of doom”, with Greta Thunberg sitting stony faced in the audience, Charles met the tiny Green activist, shook her hand and praised her work.
Charles made a passionate speech telling business chiefs and politicians they must “lead the world out of the approaching catastrophe” and that the time to save our burning planet is NOW. All good stuff.
The only toxic fly in the Fair Trade, ethically sourced, organic ointment was that Charles flew to Switzerland in a private jet, emitting around six tons of carbon dioxide.
There are excuses. Or, if you are being generous, reasons.
Charles was on his way to Israel and Palestine, where security concerns make commercial flights unviable.
But after all of Charles’ fine words on climate change, the use of a private jet sent a different message.
There is one law for the peasants and another for the big-shots. For all of Charles’ good intentions, using a private jet to go to Switzerland felt like classic establishment hypocrisy.
He was campaigning to save the planet decades before that was fashionable. But whatever the merits of his beliefs on climate change, the brutal fact is that establishment hypocrisy makes most people reach for the mute button.
‘HYPOCRISY KILLED OUR LOVE’
The nation’s honeymoon with Harry and Meghan did not end because we are racist bigots who could never accept a mixed-race woman in the Royal Family.
Harry and Meghan were adored.
They broke the spell when they wagged their virtuous fingers about climate change while hopping on and off private jets. It was their establishment hypocrisy that killed our love.
One law for them and another for us. That makes people switch off.
It isn’t complicated. You can fly by private jet OR you can lecture the world about saving the planet.
But you can’t do both. Isn’t that screamingly obvious?
The Royal Family are not the only establishment hypocrites. Labour’s Emily Thornberry — Lady Nugee, a champion of the working man — thinks we should all send our children to the local comprehensive school.
Even though, Lady Nugee confessed to Andrew Neil, that’s not what she chose for her own children.
Establishment hypocrite.
Harry and Meghan abandoned this country claiming they long for “financial independence”. Yet the millionaire couple always seem quite content to have some poor sucker sponsoring their lavish lifestyle.
NO CHANCE
There is no way Canadians will foot the bill for Harry and Meghan’s security.
It is not politically possible for any Canadian PM to foist that expense on to their taxpayers.
Ex-Mountie Larry Busch, who in the past has protected the royals in Canada, predicts the job will take 24 full-time officers and cost in excess of £1.2million a year.
Who is going to pay for that? The “financially independent” Harry and Meghan? No chance.
I can see it now. Mounties will do the heavy lifting and British taxpayers will get the bill. THAT is why we went right off Harry and Meghan — their rank establishment hypocrisy.
We have been endlessly told Harry and Meghan plan to refund us for the eye-watering £2.4million it cost to do up Frogmore Cottage, the beautiful home in Windsor they no longer need or want.
A refund?
I will believe it when I see it.
Can we get a receipt?
Waste of a £4bn fee for bias of BBC
THE Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Bill received Royal Assent from the Queen on Thursday. After all the years of pain and paralysis, it was finally official.
The UK is leaving the European Union.
Yet this historic moment did not even warrant a mention on the BBC’s Six O’Clock News.
Incredible.
And conclusive proof that the BBC no longer speaks for the nation.
So the new Director-General of the Beeb has an existential problem.
Because everyone at the corporation voted Remain, the largest vote for anything in our history – leaving the EU – has been treated as the ignorant spasm of 17.4million uneducated, racist bigots.
From crappy little comedy-panel shows to prestige news and current affairs, the BBC has been unapologetically biased against Brexit.
The state broadcaster should be scrupulously neutral.
In recent years, the BBC has been brazenly partisan.
Look, we all have fond memories of growing up with the BBC. But this week I watched football on Sky and BT, drama on Amazon Prime and Netflix.
None of the sport and drama I craved was on the BBC.
Feeling nostalgic for Top Of The Pops and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? is not worth £154.50 a year.
The BBC is nakedly biased. And the BBC is increasingly irrelevant. So why does it still get £4billion a year from the licence fee?
So right Taylor, get real
WITH Cats bombing at the box office, many of the cast are desperately distancing themselves from the furry turkey, including James Corden, who says he has not even seen the film.
The exception is Taylor Swift, who says she has “no complaints”, adding: “I had a really great time working on that weird-ass movie.”
But Taylor understands there are greater problems in life than having a flop at the box office.
In an essay to mark her 30th birthday, she writes about her mother’s brain tumour.
“Both my parents have had cancer and my mom is now fighting her battle with it again,” Taylor writes.
“It’s taught me there are real problems and then there’s everything else.”
There is nothing like the loss of a loved one’s health to put life’s little knocks into perspective.
A dud in the ditch
THE president of the Durham Miners’ Gala sneers that he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than allow newly elected Tory MPs to attend.
Alan Mardghum says: “(The Tories) did their best to destroy the Durham miners and the miners of Great Britain.”
Does Mardghum honestly believe the mediocre Marxist muppets of today’s Labour Party have any interest in his community?
The Labour Party of today openly despises the British working class.
That’s why so many ex-miners voted Tory.
The proud, hardworking, patriotic communities of the North East have realised the Tories are now the party of the working class.
If Alan Mardghum can’t see that, then he is dead in a ditch already. From the neck up.
Vitz shocking
GEARING up for her turn as Catwoman in the next Batman movie, Zoe Kravitz reclines for the cover of the new issue of Elle magazine.
You know you are getting old when you are shocked to learn the new Catwoman is the daughter of rocker Lenny Kravitz.
A life of peerage
JEREMY Corbyn wants to elevate former Commons Speaker John Bercow to the House of Lords.
A life peerage for a man who has done so much to make our lives a misery.
And if that doesn’t kill off the ermine-clad, silver spoon-sucking upper chamber for ever, nothing will.
V good riddance
BORIS Johnson has asked Royal Mail chiefs to release a set of stamps commemorating Brexit to go on sale in January 2021.
It will be tough to improve upon the idea in Thursday’s Sun of a two-finger salute in front of the EU flag.
The uniquely British gesture dates to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, when the French promised to cut off the index and middle fingers of English and Welsh archers.
As French knights died in the Agincourt mud, our bowmen stuck up two fingers. More than an insult, it is a defiant message.
We are still here. As a first-class stamp, it would take some licking.
Handy Fury
AFTER boasting about masturbating seven times a day preparing for his fight with Deontay Wilder, boxer Tyson Fury promises to bring out his own “w**k lotion” after the bout.
“It’s called Tyson’s W**k Lotion,” reveals the Gypsy King.
“It’s gonna be a bestseller because every-thing I put my name on goes to No1, baby.”
Meanwhile, Anthony Joshua is in talks for his own clash with hard-hitting Wilder this year.
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“A fight with me is what everyone wants to see,” says AJ.
“Wilder has a great right hand. I have a great left hand.”
I bet no boxer has a hand as developed as Tyson Fury’s.
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