Financial Times Licks Windsor Arse
The ability of Britain’s feudal monarchy to stop intelligent thought has been demonstrated again by the normally hard-headed Financial Times.
In a report on the installation of screw water turbines in an energy scheme for the Windsor’ castle in Berkshire, reporter Pilita Clark gushed about the “frugality” of queen Windsor whether it be her storage of cornflakes or use of smart electricity meters.
Clark informed readers that Windsor has a record of thrift and does not enjoy luxury. She did not explain how that consistent with living in a castle, one of a number of the
family’s many expensive homes paid for by the people. Nor how a person who takes £12m year of the people’s money for personal spending can be considered frugal.
In its enthusiasm for feudal rights the newspaper failed to note that the turbines installed on the Thames to generate power for the castle, seem to be another example of
Windsor privilege. The majority of the citizens the Windsors consider their subjects are no more able to use the public resource of a river to keep down their electricity bills than they are to spend the public money looted every year by the feudal family.