Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova – In the age of flamboyant woke British Royals who demand climate sacrifices from the commoners, while they swan about in private jets, it is easy to overlook that not every royal is a pompous green hypocrite.
Prince Philip, climate sceptic, already spinning in his grave
Prince Philip was a climate change sceptic. In correspondence to Spectator Australia contributor and author Ian Plimer back in 2018, the Duke of Edinburgh not only compliments Professor Plimer on his most recent book, The Climate Change Delusion, but also praises his previous book ‘Heaven and Earth’, which similarly questioned the ‘missing science’ behind the global warming scam.
Furthermore, in the letter which Ian has kindly provided to The Spectator Australia, the late Prince — who was never one to mince his words — described the wind turbines now blotting the landscapes globally as ‘monstrosities’.
Here is the letter from Windsor castle, dated 29 April 2018:
What a great question. As we can see, Prince Philip, a Patron of the Royal Geographical Society admired the work and writing of geologist Ian Plimer. In fact, the Prince attempted to invite Professor Plimer to London to address the Royal Society of Artists (RSA) on the topic of climate change.
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Read more: https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/prince-philip-climate-sceptic-already-spinning-in-his-grave/
Prince Philip also said some things I strongly disliked; he once expressed a desire to be re-incarnated as a deadly disease, to help deal with overpopulation. So despite his sensible views on renewable energy, it must be remembered he was also a man of great imperfections.
Nevertheless, I think Britons shall miss Philip’s quiet criticism of the green blight. The royals still have a lot of influence over British affairs, through their ability to influence the thinking of Britain’s elites. Prince Philip leaves behind two generations of fanatical climate activist royals, whom I fear will retard Britain’s painful journey back to energy policy sanity.
Update (EW): Link to prominent British politician Nigel Farage praising the service Prince Philip gave to Britain.
Eric,
Although Prince Philip had some genuine concerns about overpopulation,I don’t think he meant to be taken literally when he said that he wanted to come back “as a virus”!
In the same way, the late George Carlin in his comedy piece,”Saving the Planet” mused about the Earth considering ways to dispose of those“pesky creatures”,humans.
“…..Yes.A virus.They seem to be susceptible to viruses….”.
All good clean fun.
Perhaps it was meant as a joke – but it was an ugly thing to say. I would have been happier if he made an effort to retract what he said.
The gods are crazy mad and send him back as a messenger RNA.
“… but it was an ugly thing to say…”
Not ugly. He prefered his own company to that of the folly and ignorance of the rest of mankind. Just a good, healthy misanthrope. This I base on deep character analysis of “The Crown”.
Eric
That quote was taken completely out of context. Here is the context which you link to;
“I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist… I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.” ― Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh[2] (in his Foreward to: If I Were an Animal; United Kingdom, Robin Clark Ltd., 1986.)
In other words he is an animal whose numbers have been decimated by humanity who have deliberately invaded its space and tried to wipe out its species.
. He is replying as that animal, not as a man
tonyb.
And let’s not forget Prince Philip was a true environmentalist and conservationist.
Thanks Tonyb for the quote and the clarification. That puts the remark and the person in a completely other daylight. I only knew the quote and not the context.
Yes, I too had never seen the full quote, which makes it less offensive.
If nothing else, the Grand Old Duke of Edinburgh was valuable because he was prepared to say things that needed to be said, but which others would not or dare not say.
,Yes, replying as animal. Revealing his true inner desire. This Prince and his buddies want all us DEAD. Ridding earth of air breathers also Called Great Reset, Been planning and their normal routine core belief system. See Robert Welch, 1958. When people show you who they are. Believe them.
Just think, had he died at the beginning of 2020, perhaps the current pandemic would be thought of as his reincarnation with come true! 😉
Charles, his son and likely next King, wanted to become a ‘tampon’ to be closer to his then mistress.
Sadly, he failed.
The jury is still out on that one….
Fortunately due to his age, Prince Chucky, Duke of Climate Bedwetters, won’t be King for very long when the current monarch passes.
I believe Elizabeth is holding on to the throne for as long as she can, just to limit his rein.
It’s true. I think he’s perhaps the only heir to a throne that ever had to become a libtard neomonarchist.
God save the Queen.
PS …. and, BTW, I am named after this man (Prince Philip). One “l” and a Mum that was into royalty back then is wot did it.
I’m something of a monarchist myself. You could do worse for a namesake. I’ve met many of the royals (except Charles) over the years, staring in ’64.
or even his rain…no that can;t be right. Reign!
I was wondering where that pesky ‘g’ got to. Please return if convenient …
That’s a good horsey joke! Probably not deliberate but nevertheless apt.
I think she is already limiting his rein like a naughty toddler but it is his reign I am worried about as an eco freak without the decency to retract his insult about headless chickens to those who have since been proven completely right to despise the predictions of climate science about the hundred months to doomsday.
I think, by the time Elizabeth has lived out her appointed time, Charlie will be largely irrelevant. He’s something of a laughing stock, so few people are holding their breath for his opinion on anything, least of all on cargo-cult science.
“Climate change” has been dying a natural death for a few years now. Notice how readily they jumped on covid to continue their scare tactics. The object is social control and a disease is far more personally tangible than the weather.
Well The queen is 92 now and Philip was 99
Charles in now 72
Hes highly likely to live into his 90s as well, so maybe 80 when he ‘reigns’ but he will make it
The Queen is 94–will be 95 in just a couple weeks. And she looks very spry!
Personally … I believe Charles has achieved his dream. He is a giant super absorbent personal care product.
We Brits have another word for that.
Yeah begins with a ”w” and ends with an ”r” …
And it isnt is wonder.
Nah, he has been and always will be what those giant super absorbent personal care products are used to care for. For the brits, it’s a word that begins with a t and ends with a t.
‘Around that – in Brisbane there is the Prince Charles Hospital. A newly built additional wing was known as “The Carmilla Wing” by staff – being “Prince Charles’s bit on the side”
Gotta love aussie humour.
Lank, it’s pretty hard to be both the tampon and that which a tampon is meant to be insert in. Charles is definitely the later, so he has no hope of being the former.
To argue that Philip meant it, you would first have to show that he actually believed in reincarnation. As neither Greek Orthodox, nor Anglicanism, has any place for the idea, the most obvious conclusion was that he was not serious and did not expect to be taken seriously.
Perhaps it was COVID and his racist “slitty-eyed” comment about Chinese people that came back for the coup-de-gras.
The Queen, 2006 movie with Helen Mirren (Oscar winner in the role) is a good watch on this topic.
Coup de grace, not gras. Gras means “fat”, as in foie gras.
Sorry, my inner language pedant got the better of me.
Coup de gras is when they feed you junk food in a sudden offensive to reduce your fitness.
I’m gonna blame my spellchecker for that one, but thanks. It also means Generally Regarded As Safe, which is more prominent in said spellchecker ‘cos I work on that stuff, and I don’t use the word grace too much given that I don’t hang out with people who have any, ha ha.
well, as Summer is soon approaching (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), there will be a lot of coup-de-grass going on. 😉
Greek Orthodoxy might be different but Anglicanism today can mean anything you want it to be. Same with Presbyterianism. My local Church of Scotland minister says he doesn’t believe in any Christian doctrine and that Christianity is in no way better or superior to any other religion. But I think you are right about Prince Philip; he was just talking hypothetically.
Due to the Church of England’s relation to the state, there are a lot of “culturally Anglican” members who don’t know or care about the Christian doctrines of the church. That’s not to imply that the late prince fits that definition, as I frankly don’t know where he stood on matters of religion (I try not to pay much attention to the royals)
Quote:””Prince Philip also said some things I strongly disliked; he once expressed a desire to be re-incarnated as a deadly disease, to help deal with overpopulation. So despite his sensible views on renewable energy, it must be remembered he was also a man of great imperfections.
Quote from Snopes””I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus, but that is perhaps going too far.”
Lesson:”Check your own links“
Quote:”he was also a man of great imperfections.”
Future work” At least try to understand the British Sense of Humour before kicking a guy, who possessed a truly epic GSOH, when he’s down”
If you can find a quote of him saying “I regret saying that”, happy to add it. Meanwhile what I said stands.
Future Future Work – At least try and understand exactly how many tosses Prince Philip really gave.
This was the true greatness of Philip. He wasn’t there to apologise to each and every offended soft skin crying in the corner who may or may not have actually understood his wit.
and snopes isnt reliable or honest
their bias shows all too often
Indeed, but
1) unless you can show that they have a habit of inventing quotes, I think you can take any quotations they use as being authentic quotations (perhaps pared of vital context, but still actually said by the person – though, as always, it’s best to seek out the original source of the quotation when at all possible, just to be on the safe side). The key point of the quote Peta used is the bit at the end (after the oft quoted part about reincarnating as a virus) where Philip says “but that is perhaps going too far” indicating that it wasn’t meant to be taken as a serious statement or desire. It was more hyperbole than an “expressed desire”.
2) it was Eric, not Peta, that invoked snopes in his article (perhaps because snopes rated it as “true” that Philip said it, though snopes said nothing on whether it was a genuine desire of the price or not). Peta simply pointed to the quote that snopes supplied to show that Eric’s characterization of the quote doesn’t exactly match what was actually said.
Don’t forget that he was also a God, or son of a God perhaps – not sure of the specific meaning. According the the Tanna islanders, he was the reincarnation of one of their ancestor deities so if anybody was going to get reincarnated (again) it’d be him!
All of a sudden I like Philip!
According to the Guardian:
Accompanying the Queen on a visit to the Tjapukai Aboriginal cultural park near the northern Australian town of Cairns, Prince Philip stopped to speak to a group of Aborigine elders. William Brim, 42, the park founder, said the prince asked: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
During a visit to China in 1986, Prince Philip described Beijing as “ghastly” and told British students: “If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty eyed.”
Now I like him even more!!
I was thinking perhaps I’ve been unfair to him. 🙂
It’s called humour.
It used to be called humour, that was in modern times when people had a ”sense” of humour, we now live in the post modern era where misery and offense mining are the new black.
Yeah, I see it that way. When you have to stop and check off political correct boxes before you can laugh, then it’s just not funny. And as we see, the media will run with whatever narrative they want to project, jokes be damned.
Not reported by the Guardian was the fact that on a previous visit by the Prince members of the same tribal group had given a warlike display of spear throwing.
If you visited Beijing in the 1980’s you will almost certainly agree that in many aspects it was ‘ghastly’, especially in terms of overcrowding, horrible traffic and widespread pollution.
Slitty eyed comment was a poor joke and 35 years ago, like the term ‘gollywog’ was not considered as insulting as it is today.
Interesting, there always seems to be more to the story.
I was in Beijing in the early 80’s and traffic was mostly bicycles and not too bad on the highways, though there weren’t many to choose from. The air pollution wasn’t too bad but water pollution was perhaps worse.
I’ve visited 7 or 8 times since then. I seen the transformation of China from communist totalitarian state to the appearance of capitalistic freedoms and since the rise of Xi back to a more overt police/fascist state.
Traffic and air pollution are mostly worse now in Beijing, but foreigners are not as welcomed. I have little desire to return, although I’m fond of Shanghai especially.
The appearance of capitalistic freedoms. Yes
Its best described as capitalist version of the Leninist Party-State model. They have ditched the marxist part.
They learnt about the capitalist party-state from the way Taiwan was run as Kuomintang dictatorship until the 1990s and made huge economic strides.
Once it was thought China would follow Taiwans much more robust democracy but that no longer seems likely
“I was in Beijing in the early 80’s and traffic was mostly bicycles and not too bad on the highways, though there weren’t many to choose from.”
In 83, I couldn’t have boarded their buses if it hadn’t been for the women pushing me in from behind. “Slitty-eyed” is not a good joke. I kind of like the virus thing, though.
Gong gong qi che, OMG, that brings back some memories; the smells. Bathing and showering was not as commonly practiced among the average Chinese citizen back then.
I lived in a university dorm for time and there was not hot running water. So, showers were brisk. Pots of boiled hot in the morning were provided for drinking. HVAC was rudimentary or nonexistent. We had netting over our beds to keep out the mosquitoes.
You forgot to add her name, fixed.
I’m fond of Shanghai lilly especially.
That too. 🙂
Beijing is still ghastly. I lived there from 2014-2016, and never once saw the stars at night. Sunsets were sometimes a purple-blue colour due to the pollution.
You have to be very careful what you say these days. Even when it’s true. Some years ago a teacher colleague of mine came back from a visit to India and wrote a piece for the school magazine on the Indian Highway code. Or rather the way in which drivers in India totally ignore the code. Some people in a certain community objected to the article and the teacher had to apologise. Some years later my daughter visited India and reported that she was driven to the Taj Mahal in fear of her life. Nobody bothered with such basic things like keeping to your own side of the road. There are, of course, many other things which it is now longer possible to say in public, no matter how true they might be, because somebody might be offended and that person could cause an awful lot of trouble. This is because the state is totally on the side of the people who get “offended” – that is until they don’t disagree with what you find offensive. As one Christian minister found out when he told the police he found some of their posters offensive.
https://theweeflea.com/2018/10/02/the-hate-police-are-now-here/
I’m guessing the “slitty-eyed” comment could be a reference to the persistent winds blowing thick yellow dust (from the Loess Plateau and what makes the Yellow River huang, I believe). During these wind storms everyone has a permanent squint.
The correct answer to the first question is ‘yes’.
Aborigine on Aborigine violence is a national shame hidden by the progressive Left. To them all Aborigines are poor victims actively oppressed by evil Right Wings and who can do no wrong.
The true is once you get outside the e-bike range of the fair trade coffee shops welfare is thrown at Aborigines without restrictions because to criticise is to be culturally offensive and racist. So tragically too many of them just get drunk and solve their social disagreements with violence. Spearing someone for revenge is still real.
People die in regional Australia so that angry latte drinkers in the CBD can win approval from each other for hating Captain Cook.
The Queen and Prince Philip were accompanying the King of Tonga in a horse and carriage tour, as they do, when one of the horses let out out a massively loud rip-roaring fart. The Queen said to the King of Tonga “sorry about that”.
The King of Tonga says “That’s OK, I thought it was the horse”.
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That’s either a Billy Connolly joke or a true story or possibly both.
My favorite anecdote, recounted by Prince Philip, was after finishing dinner during one of his many trips to the Canadian Arctic, an Inuit woman collecting the plates, took his fork back off his plate and out it back in front of him saying, Hang onto your fork , Duke, there’s pie!” He was very fond of the Arctic and the people.
I must admit, I had not known this about him, it never came to my attention before.
I admit I didn’t discover this until recently. Because of his comment on overpopulation, I wrongly assumed he was a climate nut like his kids. I guess the lesson is people are usually more complicated than we give them credit for being.
So did I…I had been disappointed when I thought he’d gone pc. It has been great to discover that he was, after all, still the person I’d thought he was.
RIP HRH.
Only Chuck is a known eco-eejit. Anne is sensible and decries her brother’s naive idiocy – a bit like her dad and the other two don’t have much to say on the subject thank god
I understood that Prince Philip was an environmentalist but not “Green”, and one of his many initiatives was conversion of the Royal Family fleet of Rolls Royce limousines to use Liquid Petroleum Gas during the 1980s.
When last I saw him Oct 8, 2017 he was in the second vehicle of four as a passenger in an Audi. The queen ahead of him was indeed in a Rolls Royce. Third vehicle was driven by Charles.
Nothing wrong with being an environmentalist as long as you do not conflate that with green zealotry.
Environmentalist and environmentalism are the 2 progressive terms used by progressives to make their green virtue and zealotry respectactable just like calling themselves liberals makes them appear reasonable.
Conservation and conservationist’s are still the real deal, they are the ones who go out and do ”stuff” get their hands dirty digging ditches cleaning beaches on their days off work and all that, count butterflies etc, environmentalists do all their work from keyboards and under banners in the streets, and when they are finished the council or conservationist’s have to come out to clean up all their filth and vandalism.
In other words there is a lot ”wrong” with being an environMENTAList.
ps. They will not ever call themselves conservationist’s because conservation is the route term for conservatism.
When he had his accident a few years ago, he was driving a Range Rover.
I notice that the media never (or hardly ever) mention the fact that he was a so-called “climate denier” – thus in fact being grossly disrespectful of him for not pointing out to the world how courageous, how independent as a thinker he was.
He also authored seven books.
“I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist… I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.”
“I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.”
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
After reading your two cynical musings on marriage I can only say I would hate to be married to you. My bet is that your marriages never last long.
You probably wouldn’t have liked being married to Phillip, either, by the sounds of it!
Didn’t you notice the quotes around the comments? This thread is about The Prince Consort to Elizabeth, Phillip Mountbatten (Windsor). Join the dots … upon his death they were married for 73 years. It was the longest such marriage in English history.
Lighten up those are (in)famous quotes from the man himself. And my wife is a 1/2 cast descendant of Ngai Tahu ‘royalty’ and very good looking!
I wasn’t aware of that. Should have noticed the inverted commas. Sorry.
No problem Andy I’ve done similar many times. I should have made it more obvious.
as a woman I have also remarked that marriage is just legal prostitution. and its got less benefits and far more unpaid thankless work at that
On a different part of the internet recently someone got into trouble for saying that women in the 50s had it better because all they had to do was cook and have sex.
OUTRAGE!
TRIGGERING!
MORE OUTRAGE!
THIS TOXIC MAN MUST BE CANCELLED!
Then a significant amount of women came out and said that “ONLY having to cook and bonk rather than being expected to go out and work a 40 hour week? WOW! Where do I sign up?!”
Jerry Hall said .
“My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit”
Now if I became transgender could I follow suit?
sour git! Lighten up
It is a pity that younger Royals do not keep out of politics.
I have long believed that businesses should also concentrate on customer service, leave politics to politicians and commentators, comment by business either way will result in a large section of the potential market being alienated.
Go woke, go broke.
and professional sports – involvement by sports figures will be their death…
Prince Philip was a wise man and obviously understood that there are Earth Cycles and natural weather and climate changes.
Apparently most politicians are not wise.
Philip made several, private, trips to Australia when he was not accompanying the Queen. I can recall him arriving at RAAF base Williamtown in, I think, 1968.
What many people may not know is that he often piloted the Royal Flight HS-748 on such trips. Compare his humble ride to the current woke celebrities who wouldn’t be seen dead in such an aircraft, let alone fly the bloody thing.
“Phil the Greek” had as much love for Australians as they had for him, going back to 1940 when he first visited us as a mere Royal Navy lieutenant during WW 2.
RIP Phil.
His name in Greek means “lover of horses”.
It does indeed. I should know. It’s just not possible to finish a whole one though.
Trick is to drink water and skip the bread rolls at the start of the meal.
Just like eating an elephant, you have to do it slowly, a bit at a time. 😉
The Greek royal house was really German-Danish with no Greek ancestry at all.
His surname should have been ( short version) Glucksborg, Mountbatten was his mothers name. His father abandoned his wife, 4 daughters and 1 son and went to live in Nice with his mistress, I wouldnt use his name either
Charles has that trait, look at the mare he is married to.
I met him (and the Queen) in London 1964, during Wimbledon week (unofficially). I was immediately taken aback by his commanding deep voice, relaxed manner and sense of humour. We spoke for only a few moments, but you could tell he was no phony.
Had he stayed in the RN rather than marrying the smitten teenaged Princess Elizabeth, as encouraged by his pederast uncle Louis, Philip would have made First Sea Lord on his merits.
He saved his destroyer’s crew off Malta by a strategem worthy of Lord Cochrane.
Louis was determined to inject himself into the Royal fmily. He had some pretty grandiose aspirations for his family once Phil and “Wibbet” were hitched.
There’s little doubt that Philip was an authentic sailor and a very useful consort. I believe he gave the monarchy some badly needed fortification and a way out of it’s decadence.
Interesting tit-bit about Philip’s seagoing capabilities (and alternate future). Thanks.
Philip’s nitwit twit kids and grandkids lack his experience of socialism. Half his family was murdered by communists. His great aunt was Tsarina Alexandra Romanova, younger sister of his grandmother. Her massacred kids were his mom’s first cousins.
The Duke also supplied DNA profiles to identify the their remains when they were unearthed some years ago.
Thanks, yes I was going to ask a question on that, to make sure I wasn’t misremembering. Very interesting ancestry, and amazing longevity on both sides of the family (unless one gets murdered of course)..
He may have been a skeptic, but living for 99 years as a Royal pales in comparison. He never had to work. He never had to worry where his next meal came from. He never had to consider heat or eat. He never had to worry about health costs etc etc etc. I never saw him do a thing for his “subjects”.
Philip Gluecksburg had a sterling career as an RN officer during WWII, despite his Nazi kinfolk.
Battenbergs changed their name in WW1 to Mountbatten. So lets not get too hooked up on the “British Royal Family”! PUHLEASE!
I guess if you “sign up” for military service, you have to serve in the military during war. Did you serve in the British Forces?
Yeah, to him, fighting a war in the navy was just a hobby really.
He may not have had to work, but he didn’t let that stop him.
Yes he did have to work before his marriage. His family was abandoned by their father and was as far as royalty goes impoverished.
Philip and his sisters all had to marry into wealth, and did!
Apologists are out in force today it seems.
Not apologists, just a few people who have read some actual history rather than the Yellow Press. If you think being a conscientious royal is an easy job, you’re very ignorant.
I am British! I have read my history. Call me ignorant all you like.
I notice you didn’t say English. I’m fully aware that there are anti royals in Britain. It is, after all a constitutional monarchy, and I believe the present Crown has done an exemplary job.
“Rory Forbes
I notice you didn’t say English.”
Because, even being born in England, my bloodline is English, Irish and Scottish.
A mongrel prick even.
”Because, even being born in England, my bloodline is English, Irish and Scottish.”
Strewth now my linage is be insulted. Have you checked the linage of “The Royals”?
And long may she continue before her nitwit son takes over
Indeed, when she passes, the phrase should be “god save the UK, because it’ll need it with Chuck in charge”
Rory – there are no ‘anti-royals’ in Britain – there are quite a few republicans, however. And if you think the misinformation spouted by bunny huggers is demented, just read some of the delusional pieces by British republicans on the subject of the ‘parasitic’ royal family; it’s painfully awful.
Did you read your history before you had to clean road with tongue?
Get over yourself Patrick. You are ignorant and displaying the classic jealous trait that seem to think wealth and/or privilege is some sort of Zero Sum. You think that Philip having ‘royal blood’ (whatever that actually means in real terms) automatically made some child barefoot and starving in a different part of the world? Take the chip off your shoulder and throw it back in the garden.
The Monarchy is not remotely the same as Hollywood.
Thanks. I know my German Royal family history.
Should just call you what you are, a prick.
”I am British! I have read my history. Call me ignorant all you like.”
Thank you. You are free to share your opinion, so to am I thanks o our host. Freedom of speech and all that.
“I am British! I have read my history. Call me ignorant all you like.”
No one has to call you ignorant, your posts are doing a great job on that score all on their own.
And thank you to you too. Go read up on “The British Royal Family”.
Americans have a hard time accepting they are the brawn for British brains. Even AOC and Sanders think they invented the Great Reset, not Prince Charles!
Amazing how utterly stupid and pragmatic ¨can do¨ jingoism sends them off to never-ending wars for the Crown. Just look what happened to Trump when he bucked that!
Bonbon- you are a complete moron. I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again but you are completely off your medication again, aren’t you? Quite a lot of the wars the UK has been in were in support of the USA not the other way around, you deluded Muppet.
Twitt, the USA is on a Corgi leash.
It would make a cat bark,said Alice.
Suck it up – trot along!
Only 2 t’s in twit, the final t you used is completely redundant. Perhaps learning to spell before going on the internet would have been an advantage?
I was never good at Twitter, nor trotting along.
Crown? What happened to the Banksters? Come on at least keep your paranoid delusions consistent. Is it the crown or the British banksters pulling the strings? Inquiring minds want to know (not really, but it’s fun laughing at your conspiracy nonsense).
Monstrosities
says it all. A cancerous blight on more landscapes than we can count
Yeah, but look how fabulously, planet-savingly effective they have been on the Keeling Curve. Oh, hold on a sec ….
This letter has just been shown in Australia in Skynews.com.Au (minute 4:19 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRBdy-6nZ0).
I believe Princess Anne is also a climate sceptic.
Also, Nigel Farage has recently been appointed as an advisor to a green technology company, so he’s only sceptical when it suits him.
In this article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42651950 prince Philip is portrayed as a inviromentalist ” He was also a committed environmental campaigner and wildlife advocate, becoming president of the World Wildlife Fund (UK) in 1961 – though he faced criticism when a picture emerged of him on a tiger shoot with the Queen ”
I believe he was a wildlife advocate , I don’t believe he was a inviromentalist in the modern sense nor in the broad sense the word environment has become.As Eric’s article points out he did not agree with aspects of the environment crusade ,
The BBC article is not the first to attribute inviromentalism to Philip since his death.
I think its another cynical ploy by the green blob to use the BBC to further thier agenda on the back of the death of a old man who can not speak for himself anymore, only Eric’s article has tried to put the record straight.
Disgusting BBC disgusting green agenda.
He was never an environmentalist or green – he was very much a committed conservationist, believing that species and habitats should be carefully managed and controlled, much as a farmer tends for his livestock. He had very little time or patience for ‘bunny huggers’
Here is a comprehensive list of the Old Boy’s clangers.
A man of character. The picture of Malala Yousafzai laughing at his joke says it all.
Clangers are when you are giving a lecture on the evils of gun ownership and start talking about pencils, Salute the Marines or mix your children up when attempting to honour one of them. They are mistakes you make when attempting to say something else.
These instead are the utter gems of a man who at an early age decided public life was too short to nod and smile at every single person he was introduced to.
Phil simply did not give a toss about your Woke Feelings.
Phil was the Apex Anti-Woke even before Woke was invented.
But, thanks for the list. It reminded me just how awesome Philip could be and, in his refusal to say the authorised correct things, just how human he was.
A Great man.
I count two that were racist even at the time he said them.
But I laughed out loud at many
“Not every Royal is a pompous green hypocrite”. So true, but unfortunately Charlie definitely is. He is the living proof that the possession of a university degree proves nothing!
I guess it depends who you believe as to whether he was a skeptic.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1421236/Prince-Philip-news-royal-family-climate-change-david-attenborough-bbc-tribute-vn
So Philip isn’t even in his grave yet and the rewriting of history has already begun.
Prince Philip did not accept climate change was an issue. He was, however, a true conservationist and was deeply concerned about the environment.
Guess it also depends if you believe Attenborough knowingly lied about those cliff fallen walrus.
Personally? These days I wouldn’t trust Attenborough to tell me if he had eaten breakfast or not this morning.
For those who doubt that he was a true sceptic, try reading this
RIP Prince Philip (1921 – 2021) – The Global Warming Policy Forum (thegwpf.com)
BTW Princess Anne is definitely a sceptic and doesn’t agree with her brother at all.
Read this full link.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1310740/princess-anne-brother-charles-environment-views-climate-change-rare-interview
Don’t forget that the great Duke withdrew from the World Wildlife Fund when it gave up wild life and took up climate change. Christopher Booker recounts a letter from him having read CB’s book which contained this mistake.
Farewell Phil the Greek
Master of political incorrectness
That will be missed
Let’s be honest, he was never in the publics “most liked” club of the Royals, but he was the ideal husband for the Queen, and was always there in support of her.
He called a spade a spade which is extremely rare these days.
The only one of their children who turned out alright is Princess Anne, who seems to be a chip off the Queens block. A Queen Anne would have been alright by me.
I hope for the Royals sake that they can somehow leapfrog Charlie dimwit and horseface, and go straight to William and Kate who look like they could do the job, they are very popular anyway.
The real test will come when the Queen dies, then we’ll see what they’re made of.
What about Edward?
Personally, not my cup of tea.
William would definitely be preferable to Chuck, if only because he seems more personable and less of an embarrassment. Ideologically, however, there’s not much difference between the two that I’ve seen.
His Royal Highness Sir Philip Mountbatten (nee Battenberg) is also known as Philip Andrew of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburg; His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich; Knight of the Order of Australia; and Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council;—and, finally, husband of Queen Elizabeth.
Founder of the Anglo-Dutch WWF with with former Na*zi Party member Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (the Netherlands), which gave the world the spectacle of Prince Charles’ Great Reset at Davos, a meme Charles’ adopted already in the 1980’s.
The UK’s wind power farms just happen to be located in Royal real estate, a lucrative , likely tax-free income stream for the House of Windsor.
That infamous quote on reincarnation as a deadly virus displays the oligarchical outlook, which Bertrand Russell gave a sciency patina – who have always differed on the way to cull the human herd. Sir Philip chose a virus, Charles chose the Great Reset. Either way we are on the cull list, and that includes you and I.
The Ninth Circle of the rings in Dante’s Inferno is the likely destination.
The WWF that started all this…
About time someone when down Dante’s ego and cleared it out.
Curiously, the Ninth Circle’s inmates are frozen in ice while those preceding gnaw at his head. Odd that often we see here a cartoon of a frozen global warming activist proclaiming snow is a thing of the past. Shades of Dante’s Inferno…
My first thoughts are lets hope the queen outlives Charles, but then the realisation sets in that charlies son’s are equally as woke, if not woker and worse.
Prince Philip is The Steady Man, well mated to HRH that has set HER course and steered straight. The Zoomers and their spawn will never know such steadiness or such leaders or such good people.
Nigel Farange was interviewed yesterday and he said he had just been elected as a Member of the European Parliament, and had never met Prince Philip before, and after his election, he and about 30 others were invited to meet the Queen and Prince Philip, and when it came time for Nigel to speak to Prince Philip and shake his hand, Nigel said that Prince Philip said to him, “Oh, you’re that MEP guy”. And Nigel said, Yes, sir, I am, but I do not favor the UK being in the EU”. and Prince Philip said, with a big smile on his face, “I completely understand.”
GLAND, Switzerland, 9 April 2021 – WWF International expresses its condolences on the passing away today of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99. His Royal Highness served for many years as president of the global conservation organization and was WWF International’s president emeritus at the time of his death.
As president of WWF-UK (1961-1982) and as president of WWF International (1981-1996), following which he became president emeritus, a position he held to the day of his passing, Prince Philip promoted conservation issues at the highest government and corporate levels, dedicating his voice, position and influence to raise awareness and funds for environmental causes across more than 50 years.
“I think the important thing to remember is that it’s climate change and not just warming,” the prince said. “There are a whole lot of things that are being sort of disturbed, and it’s now not so easy to predict what’s going to happen.” Prince Philip said exploitation of oceans and forests, combined with demands of a growing world population, were contributing to climatic changes that were removing “great chunks of the food chain.” “We have to be more careful about waste and pollution,” he said. “We have to be more careful about what we are putting into the atmosphere,” he said. “And I think really in many places, people need to be more careful about the number of children they have.”
I see nothing wrong with any of those statements, and none are inconsistent with saying there is no climate crisis where we have (select a number) until it’s too late.
Phillip could thing, unlike his doofus of a son
Philip was one of the greats.
He mixed the importance of the role with wit, calling a spade a spade and publicly saying what everyone deep down really thought.
He honestly did not give a toss about your politically correct feelings and your fair trade soy bollocks.
Prince Philip was the Apex Anti-Woke.
Deeply missed.
Bring forth the real existential threat in Prince Charles.
He was the support for QEII
Amen. He was an intellectual purist. He made some faux pas’ And he spoke his mind, not some woke stupidity.
His daughter Princess Anne is also a climate sceptic.
Easily the sharpest member of the whole group, her BS meter was as sensitive as her fathers.
I don’t doubt for a second she was his favorite
I’ve never thought anything he said was meant in a sinister way, it was his sense of humour and that’s who he was. I’m Irish so I’m probably desensitised and hardened to that sort of thing.
At the end of the day, it’s all about me! 😉
He liked the ladies allegedly.
Still chasing fillies around the royal paddock 30 years ago apparently.
Sure. Because he was a climate skeptic all the wrongs of the Royal family can be forgotten? Do not forget they dark past. In fact if there was a group of people to be considered worst human beings, that would be Royals from Europe. In fact, they never renouced the actions of their families. On the contrary, they defend them.
Britain’s Aryan Brotherhood: The Royal Family – Pitchfork Cosmonaut
Please quote where anyone said anything remotely like “Because he was a climate skeptic all the wrongs of the Royal family can be forgotten”. Because if you can’t (and lets be completely honest: you can’t) then you are simply attacking a strawman of your own making.
It’s a shame that the late Prince Philip didn’t pass his climate skepticism on to his son Charles, who seems ready to jump on any green bandwagon that comes along, although he can afford to live a “green” life more than most of his subjects. But even without Charles being king, BoJo seems to be doing a great job destroying the British economy with “net zero carbon” goals, which would more than offset the benefits of Brexit.
For the British people, we have to say, “Long Live the Queen”.