15 Oct 2008
Charles’ 60th birthday celebrations come at a crucial point for the Buckingham Palace PR machine, whose task it is to engineer affection for Charles and soften us all up for a future King George.
Next month’s propaganda onslaught – with comedy shows, concerts and documentaries – may be difficult for republicans to stomach, but it’s also a golden opportunity for Republic. For whenever the British public is subjected to such displays of cringing deference, we pick up lots of new members and receive tens of thousands more hits to our website.
Charles is hugely unpopular, out of touch and ungrateful for the life of luxury we have given him. He doesn’t even seem to understand why he must stay out of politics. (A fawning documentary to be aired on the BBC next month confirms that Charles uses “his substantial influence to further a wide variety of causes – some of them unfashionable, some controversial”.)
His PR team may have a budget of hundreds of thousands, but the British people aren’t stupid. Charles exemplifies both the danger and absurdity of the hereditary principle. No amount of propaganda can hide that.
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October 16th, 2008 at 9:53 am
This thing about the royals supporting causes that are particularly dear to them, even if they are somewhat controversial, really annoys me. The type of causes they support are strictly limited – children, animals, illness and the countryside. Charles is no different. Let’s face it, he only supports Terrence Higgins because he had to save face when confronted with the legacy of Diana. None of them would support a geniunely controversial cause – they leave that to people with courage, grit and capability. The way they claim credit for opening the odd hospital occasionally is so deeply offensive to me. Like they’ve got anything better to do with their time.