I have chosen a deliberately ambiguous title for a distinctly ambiguous man. At one moment Charles Windsor can be a mouthpiece, as he was last week at a national pension’s conference, for some quite progressive ideas. At other times his views can at best be described as conservatively wacky. And still at other times he displays the airs and graces of the true reactionary crusader that he really is. If Charles had an ounce of real integrity about him, he would renounce and denounce the entire edifice of monarchy, exposing it for the antiquated, anachronism that it is. Can you imagine anything more absurd than to be fawning and deferring to hereditry princes and princesses, kings and queens in the modern era? It is an affront to modernity itself.

But to return to the man himself. No one can doubt he is quite an odd fellow. Unpredictably odd. Little wonder the increasingly media-savvy monarchy would love to bypass Charles and Camilla altogether and replace the aging incumbent with her grandson and his ever so compliant concubine. Yes, William and Kate would do nicely to preserve the old firm well into the 21st century. But Charles is having none of it. He wants what’s his and there will be no stepping aside, unless of course the media can be instructed to dig some more incriminating dirt. That shouldn’t be difficult. Charles simply isn’t fit to front up such an important institution of class ridden Britain. He has far too many divergent thought processes to be trusted. Just cast your eyes over the following few lines;
We live in increasingly uncertain times. We are facing what could be described as a perfect storm: the combination of pollution and over consumption of finite natural resources, the very real and accumulating risk of catastrophic climate change, unprecedented levels of financial indebtedness and a population that is rising fast.

These could plausibly be thoughts taken right out of a George Monbiot editorial. Charles takes the argument further by lambasting the insurance industry for its current focus on quarterly capitalism. Now that is a very poignant point. A point that highlights precisely why capitalism is ultimately a busted flush. It is precisely because of capitalism’s fixation with short term profit at the expense of longer term investment in the needs of humanity, that we can’t move on from our current impasse.

Sorry, we can’t have a clear minded communist at the helm of Capitalist Britain. Whatever next, he might just call for the entire nationalisation of the banking and finance industry in the interests of human progress and wellbeing!

Charles is not finished yet. He takes the financial argument into the environmental one, and once again proves himself to be a clear-minded and progressive thinker. Our would-be king muses;

There is also mounting evidence from the likes of Harvard and London business schools that those companies that improve the way they tackle environmental and social challenges prove to be the ones better able to deliver long term returns so you can have your cake and eat it.
Well, that is a highly debateable point but full credit to Charles for airing the matter in public. His mother could sit on the throne for another hundred years without coming up with anything remotely intelligent, and one suspects the same of William and Kate. No doubt about it, Charlie boy will have to go. If I were he, I would be checking my royal oats every morning for signs of untoward tampering and I would beef up my personal security detail to the max. The more Charles speaks out against casino capitalism the more he becomes a liability to the British state, and the British state knows exactly how to deal with unpredictable liabilities. Talking to plants in his greenhouses is one thing, casting aspersions on the integrity of British capitalism is quite another. He will have to go.