Have been over the hills and far away for the last few weeks and apparently it has been sunny here. In some ways though it is wonderful and unsettling to be back. Beautiful coastline; a green and pleasant landscape; some of the pot holes have been filled and our local MP still pontificates from his platform in the local echo chamber. Apart from the potholes nothing changes much. Conservatives love the shires and the rural lifestyle because it serves their delusions of self importance. Non white faces to a minimum; homosexuals hiding in the closets; women swishing along like pilot fish and the royal family are celebrated as they continue their historic but pointless journey in to the future. There are parts of Dorset and others across the UK that if Darwin were alive today he would have to re write parts of On the Origin of Species. A Daily Mail reading sub species that loves ignorance and values bigotry as if they were the air itself. I truly believe that like acne or eye ache there would be a part of me that would in a masochistic way miss it a little if it were gone.
I have been keeping up with Mr Drax’s weekly projectiles to the local masses and I have to say I found his sentiments occasionally unprovocative. I agree that the NHS should be a 24/7 organisation and that there is no place for any kind of theocracy in a rational democracy. Although I was perturbed to find no mention of the systematic dismantling of the health service by privateers and the destruction being done globally by so called Christians in his pieces but one must not expect too much. But let’s not hark back to old pieces – there will plenty of time for that in the future. No my focus this week is on his medieval creaming over the royal birth.
Mr Drax is of course not on his own when it comes to royal sycophancy. Social media and the national press have been up to their hairlines in patronising strangers. Some out of duty to their shareholders and some because they don’t have much else going for them. The more intellectual media will move on quite quickly whilst the time warpers will cling on for dear life as a chance to ram home all the most objectionable aspects of history as though they are to be cherished. An English king slaughtered thousands of Frenchies – yippee! From the might of Shakespeare (or the Earl of Oxford) to the nostalgia and spite of David Starkey we are expected to celebrate the tyranny of imperialistic endeavour no matter what misery it brought. No one would expect Mr Drax to be any different.
See this link for a mind numbing love in with the ‘elite baby’ but remember you have been warned that unless you enjoy eating cat sick it is best avoided. Here though are a few of the ‘Harrow boy from his Estate’s’ observations to chew on. He begins with ‘Yet, already, he has graced almost every front page in the world.’ Really – where is the evidence Mr Drax? The laws of probability suggest that your blind assumption is no more than an opportunity to poke the already blind in the eye once more. Pitiful!
The next bit suggests you have no knowledge of how the public relations department works within the royal household. ‘Practical, modern and unfussy, it was Prince William who then strapped the travel cot into the car and drove his family home.’ Are we supposed to celebrate this? Please tell. No mention of the multi million pound makeover of Kensington Palace – how modern and unfussy is that? Please tell. Whilst you and your government are stripping the country to the bone and selling it off to your amoral mates we are meant to rejoice that a man straps his baby into the travel seat and car that we paid for. Call me Ms Picky but…
‘Meanwhile, all the hullabaloo over a new baby may appear to some to be excessive, but this one is special.’ No Mr Drax it is another human being that is of no greater importance than any other except within the world of the anachronistic and vacuous. Is this baby more special than your own children Mr Drax? Is he more special than my children Mr Drax? Please tell.
‘All being well, he will one day be the 43rd monarch of this island and rule over 15 Commonwealth countries.’ Rule over? Rule over? Say no more… It appears that our ‘liberal democracy’ that has grown and mutated over the last few hundred years seems to have passed him by.
‘It’s an extraordinary moment in this increasingly egalitarian world of ours.’ Is this the same world in which the gap between the richest and the poorest is growing faster than at any time since records began and in which half of the world’s wealth is owned by just 660 people? Please tell.
‘If, in years to come, our new Prince demonstrates a scintilla of the good sense and duty shown by his great grandmother, our country will be truly blessed.’ Please could you release to the nation the records of conversations and decisions that she has made that enable you to reach this conclusion. It is just that we have not been privy to them not being an estate owner who inherited from those who lived off the backs of others.
This is not about how we replace this disgusting relic of a malignant species but how we erase it.
Flora the Implorer
