Revenge Of The Feudalists
By Paul Homewood
‘The Earth does not belong to us’, said King Charles at COP28 in Dubai last week. I don’t know about that, Your Majesty: a lot of it certainly belongs to your family. When he was Prince of Wales, Charles oversaw the Duchy of Cornwall, which consists of 205 square miles of land spread across 23 counties in England and Wales. Upon his ascension to the throne last year, he handed this vast territory to his son, William. Since 1337, you see, it’s been the heir to the throne who has enjoyed command over the duchy. Imagine the brass neck it takes to pontificate to the plebs about their non-ownership of the Earth while you and your family sit atop vast tracts of land worth £1 billion. What the king should have said is: ‘The Earth does not belong to you.’
Rarely has the feudalistic streak in green politics been so fantastically exposed. Here we have a king of unimaginable wealth and unearned power flying by private jet to a tribal autocracy to wag his finger at the global masses over their eco-unfriendly behaviour. At COP, Charles rubbed shoulders with the monarchs of the United Arab Emirates – ‘an autocracy with the sheen of a progressive, modern state’, in the words of the New York Times – and other kings, sultans and emirs. He chinwagged with the Sultan of Brunei, who owns 7,000 luxury cars, including 300 Ferraris. Then they’ll tell you you’re killing the planet by driving to Tesco once a week in your Skoda. He made merry with the Emir of Qatar, a multi-billionaire who has an entire ‘fleet’ of private jets, some of which can carry his limousines. Then they’ll damn you for polluting the skies with your annual Ryanair flight to Mallorca.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Meanwhile Dowden admits
There may be blackouts ahead…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12825239/Dont-panic-Brits-stock-candles-battery-powered-radios-case-power-meltdown-cripples-digital-gadgets-Deputy-Prime-Minister-Oliver-Dowden-warns.html
There may be trouble ahead
But while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance
Let’s face the music and dance
Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill
And while we still have the chance
Let’s face the music and dance
We get it on most every night
And when that ol’ moon gets so big and bright
It’s a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight
Everybody here is out of sight
They don’t bark and they don’t bite
They keep things loose, they keep things light
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight
King Harvest, Dancing in the Moonlight, 1972
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I like the three word slogan ” No words printable.” Perhaps we should all come up with other 3 worders. “FOC” could change from free of charge to to “f@’*k of Charlie”.
The more I read about this guy, the more republican I become.
Great ! I’d like to see many posters like that whenever he comes around!
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What a great piece. The sort that the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail should publish for their millions of readers. That would make a few sit up and take notice.
I particularly like this line: “Eighty-four per cent of global energy comes from fossil fuels. Phase out these fuels and you phase out human life itself.” Well, there’s a thing, how many Malthusians will be cheering that? We know a few, don’t we, kiddies?
I don’t want a “head of state” . Brenda did a reasonable job by keeping her head down and doing a bit of waving, and I’ll forgive her failure to trip Johnson up, she was a long way past retirement at that stage..
The current “head of state” is probably dangerous.
Aye, would it be one of / off the Hydra ?
Yes, it’s really weird that CharlieIII when he had ‘ownership’ of the Duchy of Cornwall wasn’t shouting from the rooftops about the plans to extract lithium and other rare metals including cobalt from all of those old mines in Cornwall. Anyone would think that he prefers to leave it to child/slave labour overseas instead….
The ‘Crown Estate’. ‘Titular’ sums it across all common sense.
With the emphasis on the first syllable. BTW I don’t even take an annual flight anywhere.
It may be strange but societies seem to need an ultimate leader. This is a bad thing if you end up with a semi-articulate dodderer, a murderous dictator or a religious fanatic, but with luck you can end up with a head of state who is essentially powerless but still keeps the power-hungry, the incompetent and the basically weird from the ultimate position.
Blair had to bow, so do the rest. His Majesty does that to all the pipsqueaks. Long may he do so.
JF
Feudalism is what I thought when C3 said, “we belong to the Earth.”
I metioned this the other day but while your are pondering how much to turn the heating down or which journey to cut out thia week take a minute to google:
‘Abu Dhabi Ski World’. That will put everything into focus for you.
Yes, I saw all about it on German Sat tv Enviro programme “NANO” … so that’s OK. .
dont forget that whilst he has given up the duchy of cornwall to William, he has taken over the dutchy of lancaster which is the monarchs privilege