So we are to have another Royal Wedding? Who cares? I certainly don't. I wish the couple well and that as far as I am concerned is an end of it. Eventually William will be king but he may have to wait another 30 or 40 years, like his father has had to. By that time many things will have changed and the monarchy may be on the way out. One group of crystal ball gazers have suggested that by then immigrants will have changed the face of Britain so much - they will already be in a majority - that the country will no longer be the country that I and millions of others grew up in. There will still be people in industry and commerce telling the nation that they need yet more immigrants to fill the job vacancies that cannot be satisfied from within. It will be rubbish then just as it is rubbish now but they will get their way. There must always be a supply of cheap labour. The new society will be some kind of homogeneous monstrosity which oozes political correctness but is characterless, ignorant - in the sense of ill informed - and divided by ethnicity even more than it is now. It is not a place where I will want to live but without the divisions there will be no peace.
But coming back to this Royal Wedding, we are already being subjected to a tsunami of mush, of sickly meringue covered pronouncements, of boring platitudinous trivia of no interest, surely, to either man or woman in this nation of ours? The Daily Mail on Wednesday had 30 pages of vomit inducing guff that surely was a waste of paper and printing ink. And it will go on and on until the wedding finally takes place some time next May [perhaps]. There will be souvenir mugs and tea towels and shirts and scarfs and socks and rock and etc. etc. All that stuff will have to be made - in China.
Why do we have to have all this stuff? Do they think that a Royal Wedding of two extremely rich individuals cut off from ordinary life will somehow make up for the mess that is our economy and persuade us not to question the incompetence of government nor the exploitation of the poor? It seems that the parents of Kate Middleton tried to engineer a meeting of the prince and their daughter by sending her via public school to St Andrew's. It seems that the couple did meet almost by accident at the University up in Fife and they have had some sort of relationship for about seven years. Neither has done anything particularly scandalous during that time and no doubt Prince Charles and HM Queen will be hoping for an uncontroversial partnership.
It does seem to be the case that in spite of comprehensive schools designed to give equal education to all, more and more of our institutions and government is in the hands of millionaires with public school educations. At least back in the days of Harold Wilson, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher the people in charge were more likely to have come from the middle classes via the grammar schools. But grammar schools are a bad thing because they are selective. At least they selected on the basis of academic potential and not just on the basis of wealth!
Right, that's it I have nothing more to say. Good luck to the two of them.
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