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A "Good Story" Day For The News
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TOPIC: A "Good Story" Day For The News
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A "Good Story" Day For The News 13 Years, 4 Months ago
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Well I'm amazed. Last night a Rolls Royce carrying the Prince of Wales and his consort The Duchess of Cornwall in extreme comfort through what should have been the sort of street down which they could usually expect to glide majestically without any trouble from - or indeed contact of any kind with - the unwashed masses was set upon by rioters. On their way to yet another lavishly expensive bash, they were confronted by thugs who menaced them and damaged the car. This must have come as an almighty shock to the couple who, lets face it, aren't usually put under any kind of stress worse than the toothpaste being missing from the royal toothbrushes, resulting in them having to find out where it's kept, what it looks like and work out how to put it there themselves. Mrs Saxe Coburg has said she was "alarmed". I use the word "alarmed" because that's the word Boris Johnson just used on Radio 4.
I'll bet she was "alarmed", although I don't recall her ever expressing any regret for the less immediately frightening but much longer lasting "alarm" she and her royal paramour caused his first wife.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not the sort of chap who approves of riots. And I am the sort of chap who believes in everyone's right to pass through any thoroughfare in the land unmolested.
I just wonder why we didn't have this kind of hoohah from Mr Johnson or indeed the BBC when in a sidestreet away from another, more peaceful demonstration, the Metropolitan Police manhandled assaulted and pushed to the ground - and occasioned the premature death of - an impoverished newspaper seller similarly just making his way from one place to another albeit in a less salubrious and publicly funded manner. I wonder how "alarmed" he was by what he faced that day.
For the royal couple to have been anywhere near the protests last night was of itself an act of the crassest stupidity. I've no doubt heads will roll. It's just a pity that there was never anything even remotely approaching this level of urgency to get to the bottom of of the death of someone whose life contained no elements of the privilege, comfort and cosseting of last night's "victims". They, at least, have a fawning media to symapathise with them for the inconvenience of the whole affair.
I'm sure the royal couple were "alarmed". As well as being frightened out of their wits. I'm equally sure that I would have readily wet myself in the same situation. But they're not dead like Ian Tomlinson. In fact they have suffered no physical harm at all. And justice for them will be much quicker in being done - and you may be sure that justice will be hugely visible.
The real scandal isn't that this has been an event that might easily have resulted in the possible spilling of the Blood Royal. The real scandal is the hypocrisy of which one is seen as the more important - the innocent party that got caught tangentially up in a riot and ended up "alarmed" or the other innocent party in almost exactly the same circumstances that ended up dead.
A royal inconvenience is a much better story than the death of a nobody. And the hypocrisy stinks.
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veritas the Royalist lefty
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Re:A "Good Story" Day For The News 13 Years, 4 Months ago
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the most amusing part..they were taken home in a police van !  |
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