LF's opinion on racism is about as much use as Cyril Smith's opinion on hang gliding. He is talking about something on which he has absolutely no concept or experience.
Did anyone listen to Shelagh Fogarty on LBC yesterday afternoon?
I only heard two callers - both BAME and both supported what LF had said on QT - or at least one agreed with everything he said, the other understood why he had said it.
The first caller, a young British Asian woman, thought that racism was being cited too often, that Meghan Markle was being criticised for reasons other than her race and that the UK is a very tolerant society. She also said that she had experienced much more racism within her own community than outside; the example she gave was skin colour - in her community if a young woman's skin colour was very dark she was considered 'unmarriageable' and if her skin colour was very light she was not 'asian enough'. SF was clearly irked that this young woman did not regard racism (from the white community) to be a problem to the same extent that she did.
The second caller, a young 'black' man, told SF that he had never experienced racism himself - she didn't believe him - What? Of course you have!! He explained that he regarded himself as 'privileged' because he had also been privately educated like LF and in his 'privileged bubble' he had not been subjected to any racism. However, by the end of the call, SF had persuaded him that he must have experienced unconscious racism - he just wasn't aware of it.
Whose opinion carries more weight - the two young BAME callers, or the white, middle aged liberal?
Saying that, I did think LF came across as a bit of a twat - not because of his opinions - but his slouching and tattoos.
Looking at criticism of other royals -
"Beatrice the benefits scrounger" (Daily Mail 2015) probably takes some beating;
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2933759/Beatrice-scrounger-Unemployed-royal-attack-jet-set-lifestyle-taking-three-holidays-barely-month.html