King calls for creative ways to tackle inequality

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AIBU to think this displays a breathtaking lack of self-awareness from one of the richest men in the world?

Well, how about you make a start with that Charles?!

Was this said on the trip to Samoa where the BBC and Starmer all flew out to discuss climate change?

Reductions for us, not for them.

It will be a cold day in hell before I ever listen to the royals on any subject.

Nailed it 😂

YABU to even ask the question.

Because prejudice against Catholics is still going strong. It's just not one of the fashionable prejudices to highlight.

According to the Sunday Times he isnt the richest he is the 258th richest so maybe bitch about the other 258 not sharing the wealth?

Alright Henry VIII, give it a rest.

Who is it going to sell it to? That’s right, wealthy people - thereby having zero impact on wealth inequality.

Happy to.

Especially the ones expounding about inequality on a huge platform.

Have you read Queen Camilla by the late lamented Sue Townsend? It’s hilarious 😂

Maybe Charles could open up many of his luxurious houses and let the homeless people i pass every morning going to work, sleep in them??

Maybe I'm being unfair- did he start his speech with

"I know it's ludicrous that I, a man with huge wealth and an exalted position in life given to me purely by accident of birth and no actual merit of my own, get to speak down to you, but hear me out .. "

Coming from the pinnacle of inequality himself 👍

I only meant 'you lot', outside the castle walls.

Alright Camilla?

Charles and a tiny number of other "slebs" were spot on back in the 70s when they started talking about the environmental problems, pollution, climate change, etc. They were mocked back then, but have now been proved to have been right.

I think a lot of the vast riches that he and his family exclusively enjoy may not technically belong to him - so the raw data will be very much skewed.

I actually have a lot more respect for extremely wealthy people who just accept it and get on with enjoying it, without trying to justify or lecture ordinary people about 'doing their bit'.

I also hold the same contempt for Charles' own father and scientist James Lovelock, who both spent decades banging on about the dangers of overpopulation - yet each was the father of 4 children.

Ordinary folk who have 4 kids but also don't feel the need to doomsay and complain about others who also choose to have big families? No issue at all.

I don't have a car.
I have never eaten meat.
I only have two children who have quite small carbon footprints as they don't use cars either.
I dont have multiple homes or fly about recklessly in helicopters.
I don't think I have anything to learn from the royals, sorry.

Exactly. How do you think the Royals are so staggeringly rich? Mainly from Empire, but also because they took some of the vast wealth of the Catholic church in England including properties for themselves.

And yet the RF owns rather a lot of moorland in Scotland, and it is managed as a carbon source not a carbon sink because shooting the ‘wild’life is more important

Charles cant even get his own family to cut their carbon footprint or their wealth by cutting down the size of the Royal Family and telling William he cant fly around in a helicopter all the time, or have 4 houses, or say his grandchildren shouldn't have titles or get his brother to leave his 30 bedroom house etc.

The Late Queen also said a similar thing about people 'saying not doing'; on climate change when she had lobbied to get an exemption for herself for Scottish Environmental protection legislation (and got it) Of course the press forelock tugged about how straight talking she was.

Brilliant

I have a creative solution: strip the royals of their wealth and status.

Use their properties to house people, and build lots of homes on their massive tracts of land.

Use their immense unearned wealth and income (and the savings from our ongoing support of them) to put into things like sure start centres and schools, as well as mental health support. These are all things which would help create a more equal society.

I don’t want to be wholly unfair to them and make them start from scratch, so let’s make sure we set them up in a 3 bed semi somewhere. They’ll need to earn money, so maybe they can sign up for a relativity TV show which follows them trying to build a life like everyone else has? Bet that’d be a good earner for them. Or they can just get normal jobs and work out how to make ends meet like the rest of us?

Creative enough, Charlie??

I remember Boris Johnson yapping on about how African and Indian women had 8 children. Then he had 8 children. Each one with about 50 times the carbon footprint of an African or Indian child.

He was also a big proponent of homeopathy and other woo nonsense. Even a thick stopped clock is right twice a day.