Charles’ USA triumph is enough to make me vote Windsor party - Vladimir McTavish
I have never made a secret of the fact that I am no supporter of the Royal Family. A quarter of the way through the 21st century the idea of a hereditary head-of-state strikes me as anachronistic.
Surely, we should be able to join grown-up nations such as France and have a democratically-elected president as our figurehead. Surely we have moved on from the feudal middle ages? We could even get an AI monarch.
However, events of the past week have made me reconsider this opinion. Democracy does not always deliver the best outcome, as we have witnessed in the USA. Let us compare our unelected monarch to the clown voted for by the American people.
The King’s state visit to Washington could not have thrown up two such polar opposite septuagenarians as Charles III and Donald Trump. And I know which one I’d prefer as my head of state.
Charles’s erudition and humour in a number of speeches merely highlighted the intellectual chasm that exists between him and the boorish nature of the elected moron who was hosting his visit.
To quote from Oscar Wilde was a masterstroke of wordplay. It left the president looking utterly confused. It was way more effective than ranting.
He even had a dig at Trump’s claim that if it wasn’t for the USA, Europe would all all be speaking German. Charlie rightly pointed out that if it wasn’t for the British, the yanks would all be speaking French. All of which went over the head of the commander-in-chief.
Ironically, the King actually can speak German, as we witnessed on his visit to Berlin. Trump, despite being the grandson of a Bavarian refugee, has no knowledge of the language.
Incidentally, I have never bought into the cliche that if Hitler had won the war, we would all be speaking German. I don’t think even Adolf Hitler could have have made us do that.
We’ve all witnessed British people trying to communicate abroad. I reckon if Hitler had won the war, we’d all be speaking English very loudly and very slowly. Furthermore, given the atrocities the Nazis would have been carrying out in 1945, I don’t reckon we’d have been too fussed about what language we were speaking.
Security was tight during the royal visit, after the alleged “assassination attempt” last Saturday.
I’m surely not alone in thinking this whole incident must have been staged. How can the six most powerful people in American plus the global press be in the same room and a guy with a gun can get in?
It was like the “shooting” during the 2024 election campaign. Way too convenient and the “suspect” was arrested far too quickly, with loads of evidence of his back story. Like Lee Harvey Oswald. D’uh!
These tactics come straight from the Nazi playbook. Such as burning down the Reichstag and blaming the communists. Not only does it divert attention away from the fact that that the government is not doing a good job, it demonises bogeymen who can be blamed for the nation’s ills. Will we never learn?
Hitler himself would have proudly described last Saturday’s reports as “Falschmeldungen” or “ Lügenpresse”. These are phrases Trump wouldn’t ever understand. But then why would he? He doesn’t even speak German.