Atavistic

[poliphilo]

I think I've made it plain that I'm not a monarchist but watching footage of Prince Charles striding round the flooded Levels with his stout walking stick,  offering sympathy and good humour to the victims and muttering angrily about the failings of those in power, putting Ministers (who have stayed in London) to shame simply by being there, I felt a wave of emotion that caught my inner censor off guard.   "If you're going to have kings and princes," I thought to myself. "Then this is what they're for." The Telegraph (which has just this moment come through the door) has a full length, full frontal portrait of him splashing through the water and looking as much like Henry V at Agincourt as anyone not wearing a suit of armour possibly can. 

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[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Totally agree here. I am not a monarchist, as i feel they are in general a waste of time, but does it seem odd that it takes a royal to highlight the problem , and going there, whilst those fat cats and bastards in parliament sit with their hands behind their backs. Disgrace? More than that, utter shambolic and not fit to rule.!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

This and being the granddaughter of colliers may be why I lean more than a little to the left of Leon Trotsky!

About time I friended you, I think!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's one of Charles' strengths that he understands rural Britain.