HE REALLY LOOKS SERIES THIS TIME!
Posted on 09/07/2010 12:57:13 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
As a mode of transport, the royal train suits Prince Charles down to his hand-made brogues: resolutely old-fashioned, rather costly for the taxpayer, but just possibly ahead of its time.
The locomotive this afternoon hauled the prince out of Glasgow station, furnished with the prince's bespoke study, a grand dining room and bedroom suite, complete with bath and his and hers beds, on the start of a four-day tour of Britain that will cost the taxpayer at least £50,000.
The contrast between the train's opulence, which seemed worthy of an oligarch, and the purpose of its journey was, to some, jarring. Charles has begun a week-long trip to persuade his "subjects" to go green, and the train from which he has chosen to assert his voice in the climate debate has been converted to run on cooking fat, which, its suppliers estimate, creates just one-eighth of the carbon dioxide of oil-based diesel.
Until Friday the prince will criss-cross Scotland, England and Wales to "extol the virtues of a sustainability revolution", preaching the benefits of towelling nappies, cycling, and European city breaks by train. The "Start" campaign, as he is badging the initiative, "doesn't lecture or hector anyone, nor does it attempt to frighten", he insisted today. To run the campaign, which could cost £2m a year, he has hired a leading marketing executive from B&Q, Jo Kenrick, and signed up major sponsors including Asda, BT and EDF.
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“You commoners stop using the earth’s resources to better your lives! We elites cannot STAND the idea that you can live a lifestyle that vaguely compares to ours! Back to the days of Nobles and Peasants, that’s what I say!”
When those who say there is a crisis start acting like there is a crisis I will pay attention.
I wish the inbread idiot would shut it...People’s lives are hard enough without the huge Taxes and infringements the “Greenies” want to impose....If you want to live green then do it and STFU and let the rest of us commoners live our lives....
We have reached the point of purest irony: when the future King of England is jealous of the colony’s elected citizen representative’s opulent touring.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet;)
hope they have enough space for the working girls, wouldn’t want to disenfranchise the peasantry and whatnot.
I guess he heard about checking tyre pressure from Bark 0bambi.
(for pic google Prince Charles in Kilt...perhaps someone can post a pic)
Don’t forget to prosecute the urchins who pick up fallen coal from the wake of your treasure train for the family hearth.
But that’s not the point of the “Green movement”...
Read my #2.
The bigger objection is that he is another rich guy lecturing the little people to consume less, which is rather obnoxious in the middle of a sharp recession. Plus, he will likely wander into political issues, which is a no-no for royals under the modern rules. But then Charles has always struck me as dim bulb, so his tin ear isn't surpising. A game of mixed metaphors anyone?
This man is the result of four hundred years of in-breeding.
HE REALLY LOOKS SERIES THIS TIME!
He is the perfect example the old saying that the human body and brain can take only so many centuries of inbreeding.
Hopefully the Queen will live a longer life and Parliament will decide to skip-over Charles and go with William (although Harry seems to have the mojo)
Damn inbreeding.
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