I think Ben McIntyre has this precisely wrong:
But in truth, he thinks and behaves like a politician; he should
therefore renounce his royal status, accept ordinary citizenship and
become a politician. The man who would be King would make a rather
better MP.
An extraordinary idea. That politics should be left to the professional politicians. It’s far too important a thing to be left to the egomaniac scumbags who go round kissing babies.
In
I half agree. Politics is extraordinarily important – that’s why it shouldn’t be left to a slightly dappy middle aged man whose only qualification for his job is not being dead.
(Cue a dozen jokes about various parliamentarians.)
That Charles takes his role seriously seems to me to be a good thing. What is not, though, is that he seems to think he should have real influence simply because of who he is.
He isn’t a politician. He isn’t elected. He has no popular legitimacy and speaks because of an accident of birth rather than through any qualification. That he seems to think he can do more than to listen, advise and quietly warn doesn’t bode well for if he becomes king.
Her Majesty’s subjects dripping off at the mouth in public, hurling abuse and advice of all sorts at the politicians? I wonder where I’ve seen that before?
Pots and kettles, Jonn, pots and kettles.
RM
He isn’t a politician. He isn’t elected.
Cue: Kinnock and Mandelson as EU Commissioners (and, indeed, the entire Commission who have more power over our lives than our own (elected) government), Alistair Campbell, Steven Gould, etc. etc.
I have already dealt with this rubbishy load of old arse as regards the same load of rubbish enunciated by The Herald’s Alison Rowat.
The rampant hypocrisy of a journalist spouting this tosh about people airing their opinions without being elected would be farcical if it wasn’t driven by such self-serving malice.
A plague on them all.
DK
Sadly the dappy middle aged man will be head of state one day. Apart from opening hospitals and sniffing drying paint, what does a head-of-state do?
King Simeon of Bulgaria, Prime Minister.
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