Prince Charles took more than 20 private flights within the UK ‘to avoid being stuck in traffic’
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
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The Prince of Wales took more than 20 private flights, including several helicopters, within the UK last year in order to avoid being stuck in traffic, it has emerged.
The heir to the throne is said to be “allergic” to travelling by helicopter, one of the most polluting modes of travel.
However, the annual Sovereign Grant report revealed that he took several flights during the last financial year, including hopping between engagements in Northern Ireland and Wales and a 70-mile trip from London to RAF Brize Norton, in order to catch a charter flight to Jordan.
The Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall also appear to have flown separately to Wales by helicopter from their respective homes, Highgrove in Gloucestershire and Ray Mill in Wiltshire.
The couple took more than 15 charter flights, including to and from Belfast, and multiple journeys from residence to residence – including Glasgow to Northolt last July and Northolt to Marham to Aberdeen in December.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Do as I say ……typical .
Hypocrisy lives!!! And of course for the most fanatical environmentalists it shines brighter than ever.
I really don’t care how many private flights he takes as long as he would stfu about a climate emergency needing the rest of us to stop flying. However, given his level of education- notwithstanding his gullible acceptance if all that Porritt, Attenborough and Laurens van der Post have trickled in his ear (and his equally gulible son), I doubt he could spell hypocrisy!
“…education…”
There was an almost unanimous and genuine resentment among undergraduates at Cambridge, who had all had to excel to be accepted, when he was given a place he hardly deserved, to take an undemanding course. He did not endear himself by ignoring most of the other students. Someone on his staircase was asked whether perhaps he was shy.
He replied “How should I know? I only ever see his bodyguard.”
“…allergic to helicopters…”
Unlikely, as he enjoyed learning to fly them forty-eight years ago in the Navy.
Perceived entitlement through an accident of birth will do that to you – make you shy that is.
This seems to be the emerging battle now – the rights of everyone – but also the preservation of some semblance of an ongoing middle class. We’ve seen (especially in America) a complete dismantling of the middle classes across western economies. An emerging ‘billionaires club’ at one end of the social scale – and food / welfare stamps + mass immigration at the other end. This is the beginnings of a Neo-feudal society structure, where there is a bizarre kind of socialism for the elites and a technologically controlled ‘social credit’ system at the other for the plebs. 1% & 99%. Bingo – you have complete control and (effectively) another stab at a 1000 year Reich. This explains so much of the bizarre moves our so-called ‘leaders’ have pulled so far this century.
If that’s being done deliberately then the “elites” are stupider than I thought. If there’s no middle class to buy stuff on Amazon, the value of Amazon is zero and Bezos is a lot poorer. And all the academics, media people and pundits will find themselves starving.
Crony Capitalism in its full splendour.
The ultra-rich don’t care about anybody beneath them, Academics? Ten a penny, Media? Fuck ’em, they’ll carry on printing whatever shite they’re told, otherwise there’ll be a new editor and the churnalist will be packing parcels in a warehouse if they’re lucky.
It doesn’t need a Middle Class to buy from Amazon, the way the High Street is dying, everybody bar those mega-rich will have to. Seen that they’re selling groceries now? Your neighbour might be getting their parcel of Chinese tat, you’re getting your weekly food shop delivered.
“And all the academics, media people and pundits will find themselves starving.”
A pleasant enough thought.
A cool historical view shows that in “modern times* (i.e. since about 1770 AD) 1% of jobs disappear every year through technological advances. This is an utterly remorseless process, completely unaffected by wars and ideological clashes. It seems almost to be, A Scientific Law. Those people you mention, and their children who hope to oil themselves into similar parasitic positions, will find themselves broken by the Law.
Assuming no overwhelming descent into Chaos, people a hundred years from now will rely on personal, bionic, articial-intelligence nets which will make every man and woman smart enough not only to “think*” for themselves, but to rebuild the sense of individual self-worth and power that is our – lost – primate inheritance.
However that is science-fiction. For the present we are in the grip of the human boa-constrictors
* It will be a strange kind of thinking. I cannot really imagine what it will feel like. Perhaps it will manifest into consciousness as insinctive decisions. How it will interact with emotional and moral feelings is unknowable.
Presented with a plan for “net zero” such people will let their personal integrated system recollect all it knows, and perhaps interact with other people’s systems, and after a minute or two say, “We are unanimous. Bull shit!” – or perhaps “Jolly good!” But in fact such political plans will be themselves obsolete rubbish, immediately dead in the water, just as a frankly astrologic and magical plans would be now.
Republic after death of Queen?
Yes, the strapline of the Telegraph article talks about “Fears of conflict …”, but there should be no such fears as his role will be purely UK King, not World Green Champion. If he persists with the latter there will be a sudden role reversal, lefties will like the monarchy, and righties will detest it.
President Blair?
You know it makes sense 🙂
” Republic after death of Queen? ”
Yes please
Can you really see woke Charlie giving up all his privileges without throwing all his toys out of his pram?
My tumbrel is ready and may little list is growing…..
All of the eco loons are scientifically ignorant and having been conned into believing all the dire, end of the world, threats they are so stupid they cannot understand they are wrong and admit they were conned. Ignorance is bad, but ignorance combined with a misplaced sense of superiority is worst.
A Liberal Education is supposed to give you a broader outlook to life and an ability to appreciate different views on all matters.
And in the real world … 🙂
The argument that the scientifically trained know better suffered a blow in the pandemic. They actually brought us what might be one of the great governmental disasters. God knows how big a disaster it will eventually turn out to be: the mills of cock-up grind slow but they grind exceeding fine.
And there’s no denying that it’s people with scientific credentials who are behind the great global warming scam.
Incorrect.
Unfortunately the scientifically trained were not in charge in the pandemic.
Those who were were the likes of utterly discredited “computer modeller” Neil Ferguson and a bunch of “behavioural psychologists pretentiously calling themselves SAGE and other left wing know-it-alls without any real scientific knowledge amongst them.
The real experts who produced “The Great Barrington Declaration” were brushed aside because their faces didn’t fit.
Exactly so. The idiot Ferguson has a lot to answer for.
dearieme
There are always charlatans, and they can occur in every discipline.
The remedy is to encourage public discussion, yet the BBC closed down every discerning voice, treated them as subversive, elevated Global Warming, Climate Change and NET Zero policies as the Ultimate Truth and encouraged very aggressive activist organisations to the point of violence.
Natural Scientists and Engineers with a sound understanding were forbidden to appear on their programmes.
And the Global Warming genre is only one of many bodies of knowledge and understanding to be subjected to BBC manipulation.
It is why the licence fee needs to be abolished, and not replaced.
All good points.
I suggest that the central fallacious assumption in the public mind about “scientific credentials” is that scientific training is an unvarying ascent from a benighted condition to an enlightened one. With this assumption, what ANY ‘scientist’ says about ANYTHING is, ipso facto, at least close to the truth;
and when contradicted he can say with a straight face ,”Oh, all of the real experts are sure of it. Do you know Tensor Calculus? No? Nor do I. We both have to take the word of people clever enough to study THAT.”
It is slightly awkward when genuinely credentialed scientists go rogue, and off message. But if they still have jobs in the system it is easy enough to threaten them into silence. And if they no longer have jobs in the system, you can say they are bitter failures, or have been bought, or are nutty, or simply old and out of touch.
.”..ignorance combined with a misplaced sense of superiority…”
Invites a visit from Karma…
The quadruple-vaccinated garden gnome Fauci is very ill with the usually mild Omicron version of the disease he helped to create. I guess he never heard of “vaccine-induced enhancement of viral infection.” Do not know why not. I read about it some fifty years ago
in a standard textbook of Immunology.
Five days of taking the super-duper new drug* from Pfizer made him much worse, and so
they are repeating the dose. Always doubling down on disaster, these types…
* It is designed to mimic Ivermectin with enough difference to be patentable and cost a thouand times as much. But Sshh! you are not supposed to know that. Ivermectin itself hardly works once the second inflammatory process (the killer one) is well under way.
So using the knock-off chemical at this late stage shows their invincible ignorance.
Btw his windmills at three per cent of demand right now
That’s more interesting than the flight story. How can I source data like this?
Google ‘UK grid status’ and take your pick.
Gridwatch is what I use
The best one is this https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
The download facility allows you to inspect data back to 2011.
Leo Smith who made the site is rather an energy expert and indeed often used to post on here.
Another site giving general worldwide date by country is this one which shows both output as well as capacity figures.
https://app.electricitymap.org/map
For solar generation only this one is very instructive
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/
and for regional data https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/regional/
There are a load of others working from different angles ( often shooting themselves in the foot by highlighting deficiencies that would rather go unknown.) such as this one
http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/last-28-days/
Ray,
this website gives data relative to heat pumps.:-https://gshp.org.uk/resources/grid-watch/.
Their figures seem completely wrong for the heat pump CO2 emissions and I have written to them a couple of times asking how they calculate their figures but do not get any response from them. They are obviously pushing heat pumps but their figures should reflect fact.
It seems to be a 3 horse race as to who has screwed their grid up the most between Australia, Germany and the UK. The Australians have ended up with a totally delusional government who believe the solution is more unreliable generation at huge cost that is the root cause of their problems. The UK has a government of idiots and led by a proven liar whose promises and pledges mean nothing, and with National Grid planning for rationing to avoid firing coal plants back up. Germany is already in Stage 2 of their 3 stage emergency plan as they try to reduce gas consumption to keep some for the coming winter. Their recently elected idiots have closed perfectly good nuclear plants and held back coal use by burning gas as if they could get more of it. The great German industrial machine is grinding to halt as they move elsewhere, possibly due to the small matter of no insurance cover if an energy supply failure ruins your expensive plant. Ford will make their battery cars in Valencia not Germany.
You could add France to that Gerry.
The golden rule is to avoid single points of failure, all the way from primary energy resource, to generating technology, to network security to get the power to the substation at the end of your street.
Some countries have ignored this for many years, and they always seemed to be getting away with it. That’s one of the things about security of supply, you get all your bad news in one day, and it comes when it’s way too late.
Celebrity and Royal CO2 actually cools the planet, not warm it. Why else do you think we have these people flying all over the place? Surely you didn’t think they were hypocrites?
Then royals actually should get stuck in traffic as much as possible 🙂
“The heir to the throne is said to be “allergic” to travelling by helicopter”
But not as “allergic” as he is to rubbing shoulders with the hoi polloi on the public highway, clearly.
Perhaps King Charles III will insist on having ZIL lanes built in all major cities to ensure his smooth passage past the plebs?
I doubt they will need ZIL Lanes given the latest insane idea from a Government adviser that all the plebs are to be priced out of their cars and forced onto public transport. Surely the revolution cannot be far away?
In France the shout would be “Aux barricades”. On our side of the channel it is more likely to be “After you dear boy”.
I really don’t care about Prince Charlies but I do care about his perpetual hypocrisy
O/T
but isn’t this insanity?
Energy crisis: Longest cable in WORLD will be based in Britain and power 7million homes
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1633544/energy-crisis-lifeline-uk-worlds-longest-cable-xlinks-hdvc-factory-7-million-homes
No it’s not insanity Robert, it’s fiction. Remember it was in the Express.
BUT, only when the sun is shining in Morocco!!!
Single point of failure mean nothing to these eejits?
Off Topic
Supreme Court limits Biden’s power to reduce emissions
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62000742
Delicious!!!
The Court disappointed many during the 2020 Election but now seems to be kicking liberal ass (generally with a comfortable 6-3 majority). Perhaps they have noticed that somebody (whether it was ‘the people’ or the ‘deep state’ or whatever) made a huge mistake in that year.
“Climate pollution” is the phrase used by the lawyer for the EPA. I suppose it was an inevitable progression further down the rabbit hole to start identifying climate per se as a pollutant. Either that or Professor Higgins’s comment is relevant:
“Well, in America they haven’t used English for YEARS.”
All the more season to ignore him when he tells us to reduce our carbon footprint.
The *climate crisis* won’t notice as royal indiscretions of the ’emissions’ kind can always be ignored.
he certainly wasn’t allergic to helicopter flights from his Highgrove home early morning after early morning in the 1990’s when I lived in Tetbury within uncomfortable earshot of the machines which idled on the ground for an unconscionable time presumably whilst he finished breakfast.
about time this person….UNPACKED HIS BAGS!! and got the porter to carry them! from Trevor in New Zealand.
Surely you mean, carry them himself?
Although, perhaps, it meant precious little when laid against the enormous war guilt of the Japanese in World War 2, I was impressed that the Prime Minister of Japan, imprisoned afterwards, insisted on being given the job of lavatory cleaner, while serving his sentence.
I am not sure whether he was ashamed of himself, or of his failure to win the war, or of the crimes of his country; but he did show humbleness.
I don’t actually care, I am not interested in Prince Charles and even though it isn’t the done thing, I have no interest in the Queen (Crown).
The government demolished all the Power stations and have disinvested in our Gas infrastructure. Furthermore the population voted for this futile disaster.
But its always been that way throughout human history, our biggest enemy is ourselves.