It’s been a while since there was a republican item on this republican blog. So it was with the usual sense of embarrassment that I heard on the “silly bastard” slot on the ITV news today the His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has yet again opened his mouth and put his foot in it.
While visiting sea and army cadets with his wife the Duke asked a female sea cadet what she did as a day job. She replied that she worked in a club. To which he quipped “a strip club”. She replied “no” and he said “well it’s too cold today anyway”. Well there you are, the unelected husband of our unelected head of state, thinks that all women that work in clubs are strippers. Doubtless before going home and preparing the men folk a delicious lunch, changing into a party frock and waiting at the bedroom door.
The Duke does this sort of thing so regularly that it set me to wondering: why? Is he so stupid that he just does not think about what he is going to say before blurting it out? Or is it that he considers himself and presumably the rest of his brood to be above the ordinary norms of decent and polite society? If I had been a person of similar standing and had said something equally offensive would it have all been laughed off in the ‘amusing idiot’ section of the news? Surely not, would the Queen have married a man with so little savoir faire? I really find that hard to believe.
Which lead me to conclude that he is doing it on purpose because he thinks that it endears him to us. Perhaps the people who feel that these royals are such a huge asset to UK plc abroad would like to explain how HRH Duke could be considered an asset when everywhere he goes he manages to offend anybody who is not an English speaking white man?
While visiting sea and army cadets with his wife the Duke asked a female sea cadet what she did as a day job. She replied that she worked in a club. To which he quipped “a strip club”. She replied “no” and he said “well it’s too cold today anyway”. Well there you are, the unelected husband of our unelected head of state, thinks that all women that work in clubs are strippers. Doubtless before going home and preparing the men folk a delicious lunch, changing into a party frock and waiting at the bedroom door.
The Duke does this sort of thing so regularly that it set me to wondering: why? Is he so stupid that he just does not think about what he is going to say before blurting it out? Or is it that he considers himself and presumably the rest of his brood to be above the ordinary norms of decent and polite society? If I had been a person of similar standing and had said something equally offensive would it have all been laughed off in the ‘amusing idiot’ section of the news? Surely not, would the Queen have married a man with so little savoir faire? I really find that hard to believe.
Which lead me to conclude that he is doing it on purpose because he thinks that it endears him to us. Perhaps the people who feel that these royals are such a huge asset to UK plc abroad would like to explain how HRH Duke could be considered an asset when everywhere he goes he manages to offend anybody who is not an English speaking white man?
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