Speak out Charles, our teenage politicians never will
peter hitchens
Prince Charles will be right to speak out once he becomes King. It is
true that by doing so he will risk the future of the Crown. But, if he
fails to rock the Royal boat, the Monarchy will in any case be finished
soon.
The present Queen is undoubtedly very nice. But she has badly damaged
the throne by failing to speak out when she might have done – especially
against the surrender of our independence to the European Union, which
undermined her own position.
And it is a myth that she has remained carefully neutral. Far from it.
In 1998 she went out of her way to endorse the Blair Government’s abject
surrender to the terrorist godfathers of the IRA.
Her stance on this contentious issue helped Mr Blair to bamboozle
Northern Ireland’s Protestants into voting ‘yes’ in the rigged
referendum that will eventually place them under Dublin rule, so that
they cease to be the Queen’s subjects.
In her 2004 Christmas broadcast she proclaimed ‘diversity is indeed a
strength’ – a Royal endorsement of the multiculturalism many oppose and
dislike.
Just imagine what would have happened if she had taken the opposite side
on these issues, and then you will see just how powerful these
statements were.
Charles, unlike his mother, has some strong conservative instincts – not
Tory, by the way, which is in many ways the opposite of conservative
these days.
And that is exactly the point. When a rigged, whipped Parliament is
dominated by teenage social liberals who know little and care nothing of
the national heritage, an outspoken King could upset this unhealthy
arrangement, speaking for the voiceless millions who share his sense of
loss and of isolation.
By doing so he would create a crisis. And the attitude of the media in
such a crisis could decide if he succeeds or fails. But I think that
crisis is necessary. The major political parties are closed clubs kept
alive by State funding and dodgy millionaires, speaking only for
themselves.
They, not the House of Lords, the Monarchy or the judiciary, are the
things that need reforming and replacing. Charles could justify his
entire life if he helps to make that happen, and I hope he will.
If he doesn’t, his fate is sealed. New Labour’s Michael Wills, a close
associate of Gordon Brown, has already drawn up plans to humiliate and
marginalise the Monarchy. The next lot of Royal children will be ordered
to attend State schools, to keep up the pretence that the State system
is working.
The Coronation will be turned into a multi-culti panto. And Mr Wills
thinks Charles cannot be trusted to be impartial if there is a hung
Parliament – the implication being that he will lose his role in forming
a new government.
You think the Useless Tories will protect the throne against this sort
of salami-slicing? Forget it. Faced with the choice between defending
the old independent House of Lords and caving in, what did they do?
They caved in, in their unending quest for a quiet life in preference to
principles. Somebody has to stand in the way and say ‘enough’. It won’t
be David Cameron. Let it be Charles. Everyone may be surprised by how
much support he gets.
The cheeky face of Leftist propaganda
There's something about Andrea Riseborough’s cheeky Left-wing face that
makes TV chiefs long to use her in propaganda programmes.
Having portrayed Margaret Thatcher as a sort of Tory Germaine Greer,
Miss Riseborough is now adorning The Devil’s Whore, an astonishingly
ridiculous drama series about the English Civil War, apparently written
jointly by Belle de Jour and that joke Marxist figure Dave Spart.
I never knew that cavaliers’ wives did striptease dances on the dining
table at their wedding feasts. I also didn’t know that Oliver Cromwell
was so like Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown’s spivvy spin- doctor, both in
mannerisms and politics.
Nor was I aware that even the most radical of Cromwell’s followers were
feminists before the idea had ever been heard of. Well, you learn
something new every day from TV, even if it’s not true.
The only good thing about this series, apart perhaps from the bodices,
is that people who have never heard of the Civil War might now look it
up and find out what actually happened.
Meanwhile, look out for Andrea Riseborough in Britain’s Che Guevara –The
True Story Of Boadicea. Coming soon.
Smirking Ross's return will kill the BBC
So the walking smirk, Jonathan Ross, will be back on BBC screens any day
now, as overpaid and revolting as ever. Well, I reckon that means the
BBC has missed its last chance to regain the respect of the British
people and save itself.
It cannot now complain if it is dismembered and the bleeding pieces are
flung to the vultures of commercial broadcasting.
Because I believe so strongly in the rule of law, I can’t join those who
will now refuse to pay their licence fees.
There may be a legal case for doing this, especially on the grounds that
the Corporation has failed in its duty of impartiality over the EU, but
it hasn’t been tested in the courts yet.
I think what will happen is this. Quite a few people, me included, will
increasingly wonder if we want to carry on owning TVs at all if this
means we must pay for Mr Ross’s smutty displays and all that goes with
them.
A lot more will find excuses (they never watch the BBC, they get their
programmes through the internet) for quietly cancelling their licences.
The authorities just won’t be able to pursue them.
And the BBC will, slowly but surely, die. Friday was the day that became
certain.
Education, new victim of the IRA
The 11-Plus has been abolished in Northern Ireland, the last place in
this country which still had full-scale academic selection. As a result
it had higher standards than schools on the mainland and gave better
opportunities to bright children from poorer homes.
New Labour has long been infuriated by this living proof that selection
is better than the comprehensives it supports.
Gordon Brown must be secretly delighted that the IRA’s front
organisation, Sinn Fein, is destroying the evidence. Sinn Fein and the
IRA have always been good at destroying things, sometimes even more
spectacularly than this.
But here’s the really interesting thing. They’ve abolished the 11-Plus
without even knowing what will replace it – absolute proof that those
responsible are motivated purely by the urge to wreck. They don’t care
what happens next, as long as this good thing is abolished.
* Why does everyone now think it’s all right to park on the pavement?
Could it be because the police do it? Pictures of a police van outside
the home of alleged murder victim Katherine Ellerbeck show the usual
pretentious hanks of ‘Police, do not cross’ tape and a whopping big fat
police van, parked on the pavement.
I can’t see any excuse for this. If the police can’t park considerately
and legally, why should anyone else? People who actually walk are a
menaced minority, blocked by police vans one minute, swatted by cyclists
the next.
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true that by doing so he will risk the future of the Crown. But, if he
fails to rock the Royal boat, the Monarchy will in any case be finished
soon.
The present Queen is undoubtedly very nice. But she has badly damaged
the throne by failing to speak out when she might have done – especially
against the surrender of our independence to the European Union, which
undermined her own position.
And it is a myth that she has remained carefully neutral. Far from it.
In 1998 she went out of her way to endorse the Blair Government’s abject
surrender to the terrorist godfathers of the IRA.
Her stance on this contentious issue helped Mr Blair to bamboozle
Northern Ireland’s Protestants into voting ‘yes’ in the rigged
referendum that will eventually place them under Dublin rule, so that
they cease to be the Queen’s subjects.
In her 2004 Christmas broadcast she proclaimed ‘diversity is indeed a
strength’ – a Royal endorsement of the multiculturalism many oppose and
dislike.
Just imagine what would have happened if she had taken the opposite side
on these issues, and then you will see just how powerful these
statements were.
Charles, unlike his mother, has some strong conservative instincts – not
Tory, by the way, which is in many ways the opposite of conservative
these days.
And that is exactly the point. When a rigged, whipped Parliament is
dominated by teenage social liberals who know little and care nothing of
the national heritage, an outspoken King could upset this unhealthy
arrangement, speaking for the voiceless millions who share his sense of
loss and of isolation.
By doing so he would create a crisis. And the attitude of the media in
such a crisis could decide if he succeeds or fails. But I think that
crisis is necessary. The major political parties are closed clubs kept
alive by State funding and dodgy millionaires, speaking only for
themselves.
They, not the House of Lords, the Monarchy or the judiciary, are the
things that need reforming and replacing. Charles could justify his
entire life if he helps to make that happen, and I hope he will.
If he doesn’t, his fate is sealed. New Labour’s Michael Wills, a close
associate of Gordon Brown, has already drawn up plans to humiliate and
marginalise the Monarchy. The next lot of Royal children will be ordered
to attend State schools, to keep up the pretence that the State system
is working.
The Coronation will be turned into a multi-culti panto. And Mr Wills
thinks Charles cannot be trusted to be impartial if there is a hung
Parliament – the implication being that he will lose his role in forming
a new government.
You think the Useless Tories will protect the throne against this sort
of salami-slicing? Forget it. Faced with the choice between defending
the old independent House of Lords and caving in, what did they do?
They caved in, in their unending quest for a quiet life in preference to
principles. Somebody has to stand in the way and say ‘enough’. It won’t
be David Cameron. Let it be Charles. Everyone may be surprised by how
much support he gets.
The cheeky face of Leftist propaganda
There's something about Andrea Riseborough’s cheeky Left-wing face that
makes TV chiefs long to use her in propaganda programmes.
Having portrayed Margaret Thatcher as a sort of Tory Germaine Greer,
Miss Riseborough is now adorning The Devil’s Whore, an astonishingly
ridiculous drama series about the English Civil War, apparently written
jointly by Belle de Jour and that joke Marxist figure Dave Spart.
I never knew that cavaliers’ wives did striptease dances on the dining
table at their wedding feasts. I also didn’t know that Oliver Cromwell
was so like Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown’s spivvy spin- doctor, both in
mannerisms and politics.
Nor was I aware that even the most radical of Cromwell’s followers were
feminists before the idea had ever been heard of. Well, you learn
something new every day from TV, even if it’s not true.
The only good thing about this series, apart perhaps from the bodices,
is that people who have never heard of the Civil War might now look it
up and find out what actually happened.
Meanwhile, look out for Andrea Riseborough in Britain’s Che Guevara –The
True Story Of Boadicea. Coming soon.
Smirking Ross's return will kill the BBC
So the walking smirk, Jonathan Ross, will be back on BBC screens any day
now, as overpaid and revolting as ever. Well, I reckon that means the
BBC has missed its last chance to regain the respect of the British
people and save itself.
It cannot now complain if it is dismembered and the bleeding pieces are
flung to the vultures of commercial broadcasting.
Because I believe so strongly in the rule of law, I can’t join those who
will now refuse to pay their licence fees.
There may be a legal case for doing this, especially on the grounds that
the Corporation has failed in its duty of impartiality over the EU, but
it hasn’t been tested in the courts yet.
I think what will happen is this. Quite a few people, me included, will
increasingly wonder if we want to carry on owning TVs at all if this
means we must pay for Mr Ross’s smutty displays and all that goes with
them.
A lot more will find excuses (they never watch the BBC, they get their
programmes through the internet) for quietly cancelling their licences.
The authorities just won’t be able to pursue them.
And the BBC will, slowly but surely, die. Friday was the day that became
certain.
Education, new victim of the IRA
The 11-Plus has been abolished in Northern Ireland, the last place in
this country which still had full-scale academic selection. As a result
it had higher standards than schools on the mainland and gave better
opportunities to bright children from poorer homes.
New Labour has long been infuriated by this living proof that selection
is better than the comprehensives it supports.
Gordon Brown must be secretly delighted that the IRA’s front
organisation, Sinn Fein, is destroying the evidence. Sinn Fein and the
IRA have always been good at destroying things, sometimes even more
spectacularly than this.
But here’s the really interesting thing. They’ve abolished the 11-Plus
without even knowing what will replace it – absolute proof that those
responsible are motivated purely by the urge to wreck. They don’t care
what happens next, as long as this good thing is abolished.
* Why does everyone now think it’s all right to park on the pavement?
Could it be because the police do it? Pictures of a police van outside
the home of alleged murder victim Katherine Ellerbeck show the usual
pretentious hanks of ‘Police, do not cross’ tape and a whopping big fat
police van, parked on the pavement.
I can’t see any excuse for this. If the police can’t park considerately
and legally, why should anyone else? People who actually walk are a
menaced minority, blocked by police vans one minute, swatted by cyclists
the next.
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