The coverage of Prince Philip’s death is what you would expect of North Korea on the death of their ‘beloved leader’
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I’m not going to waste words on Philip Windsor or is it Battenburg? He lived an unremarkable life and his main achievement was living until 99 and marrying a woman who was able to keep him. His sisters supported the Nazisas did most of the Greek royals.
Phil was famous for a series of racist remarks the most famous of which were made on his visit to China in 1986 when he toldBritish students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
He also quipped:
“If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”
During a visit to an electronics factory in Scotland, Prince Philip sawa messy fuse box and said it looked "as though it was put in by an Indian". He also askeda driving instructor in Oban: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
Phil the Greek was also an insensitive bastard. After the Dunblane massacre in 1996, in which 16 children and one teacher died he opposed controls on possession of guns saying
“If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?”
I won’t waste any more words on this worthless man. It says everything about the BBC that they have spent more time on the death of this useless royal parasite than the 127,000(at least) people who have died from COVID-19. If the hundreds of millions of pounds spent on this dysfunctional family had been spent on the NHS building up stocks of PPE and if large sections of the NHS hadn’t been privatized thousands of those people would be alive today.
As Percy Shelley famously said‘Monarchy is only the string that ties the robbers’ bundle’. The purpose of the Royals is to ensure that however rich or poor you are that you will identify with this symbol of national unity that enables the rich and privileged to get away with their robbery of ordinary people. Racism helps divide the poor amongst themselves.
Let the BBC and the British Establishment mourn, we should organise starting with demonstrations tomorrow against the Police Bill
Tony Greenstein