The Clown Prince of Wales Blames Capitalism for All Woes

by Mark Rhoads

Charlie Windsor is an unemployed kid from a rich family who the Brits so amusingly call their "prince" just like in ancient times. "His Highness" as some Brits also insist on calling him in recent years is supposed to have only one role to play in life and that is to somehow stay out of mischief while he waits for Mum to die so he can be the one to ride in the gold Cinderella coach with horses and wear a really big crown designed by Disney imagineers on 'state" occasions.

All that silliness would be bad enough if Charlie did not also try to pass himself off as some grandiose thinker of deep thoughts based on his zero level of economic scholarship. Now, he says "we" as in the world and not the royal we, have only 96 months to save the planet from a free enterprise system, the principal sin of which in historical terms has been to be the most productive supplier of human needs the world has ever known. 

Sure sounds like something we should abolish all right.  After all, Charlie lives in a country ruled by Socialist buffoons like himself who know nothing about how to create a single job or how to let freedom produce prosperity.  The ruling Labour Party never saw a tax it doesn't like or a new government program it did not want to create so it could tax more. The so-called Tories are not any better since they are mostlly socialist-lite. 

 So Charlie will go on pretending to be a "prince" and pretending to think up all those profound ideas.  When will our cousins across the pond give the boot to that idiotic monarchy that claims it is only a figure head?  We did it in 1776.  For the sake of building morale during World War II, FDR thought he had to make nice to King George V and the Queen Mother. who was a very nice lady and a "commoner" Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who died in 2002 at the age of 102.  After Bowes-Lyon died would have been a perfect time to hold a really big ceremony and let that entire disfunctional family abdicate so British kids in the future could grow up like normal people in a supposed democracy.  But then Charlie might have had to look for a job as a salesman in a high-priced men's clothing store and his tailor  would be out of work too adding to the UK unemployment problem.  And if they had done that, what would the touristas from Canada and the USA have to gawk at when they visit London?  The  same thing they gawk at now--- nothing.

Comments

[Johnny D]

Well said, Mark.

And this is the reason why in Britain today, and for the past thirty or forty years, as Brits have gotten to know and appreciate the depth and wisdom of their crown prince, the most common and heartfelt toast in the country remains:

"Long live the Queen!"

[PeteSpeer]

That would be George VI.

[We Have One and Need One Too]

I was going to say that it'll be interesting to see whether the Brits will continue to happily hand over--and increase--the Royals' allowance if their popularity keeps decreasing due to gibberish such as this, but I'm feeling a bit pessimistic about world events today. I can't say with confidence anymore that the people who still flock to vacation in the U.K. DON'T think the same way as the Prince does.

Furthermore, once the US is done with it's whirlwind tour of the globe, spewing messages that are just as odd (e.g., things similar to "we can all be the best of friends all the time, can't we?"), things will shift even more across the world.

Come to think of it, I can't even see how this latest Prince Charles fiasco is any different from what we've been doing here lately in that British taxpayers are paying for Prince Charles to run around the world to say odd things.

We can now say with confidence that we have a US counterpart to the Prince.

Oh, but wait. There ARE differences. The Brits didn't vote Charles into "office"; he was born into it. So, therefore, while they can't vote Charles out of office, they can easily claim--when he botches up royally--that he's not really their Government and therefore doesn't represent their views.

(Nice gimmick, if you think about it.)

Our counterpart,however, WAS voted into office; IS the US government; and while more people are listening to his blunders, fewer are saying anything about them because they can't even see the blunders for what they are anymore.

So, perhaps we should take the lead from the Brits one more time.

Let's start up our own Monarchy and give that to the Obamas.

[Mark Rhoads]

Pete Speer is correct, I should have said Geoge VI or "Bertie" the stuttering fellow was married to Elizabth Bowes-Lyon who really was a good role model in WW2. George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India (until 1947), the last King of Ireland (until 1949), and the first Head of the Commonwealth.

Being the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne, and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward. He served in the Royal Navy during World War I, and after the war took on the usual round of public engagements. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth (who succeeded him as Queen Elizabeth II) and Margaret.

George's elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII on the death of their father in 1936. However, less than a year later Edward revealed his desire to marry the twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. For political and religious reasons, the British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, advised Edward that he could not marry Mrs. Simpson and remain king. So, Edward abdicated in order to marry. By reason of this abdication, unique in the history of the British Isles (previous abdications were forced by military or political pressures), George VI ascended the throne as the third monarch of the House of Windsor.

[Jan]

Well either way, it is high time to again throw the bums out, over here at least.

The Brits would save themselves a whole lotta strife if they followed the common sensicle actions of their Americans cousins starting with Tea Parties as a warning to the monarchy of (hopefully) things to come.