Have we no other educational underachievers available to be officers so 
we have to send members of the Royal family into countries with the 
highest chances of abduction anywhere on the planet?

Do the British armed forces have to act as an adventure playground for 
princes at the taxpayer's expense in perpetuity?

Can there be anything more crazy than sending intellectually challenged 
members of the Royal family into places where they stand a significant 
chance of being abducted?

Do you know what a King's Ransom is? When Richard the Lionheart got 
himself abducted on his way back from indulging in a bit of religious 
genocide in the so-called Holy Land he was held for ransom and the Royal 
treasury paid up, nasty Prince John (villain of the Robin Hood myth) 
managed to raise enough taxes to pay the ransom, 150,000 Marks, a sum 
equivalent to the entire Gross Domestic Product of England for a whole 
year. History has been kind to Richard, not showing him to have been 
criminally negligent in putting himself in harm's way and letting the 
consequences fall on the shoulders of the taxpayer and not expressing 
his gratitude to his brother and his subjects. The English have actually 
been taught to look up to the genocidal French idiot as if he was some 
kind of English hero while his brother was a nasty evil, greedy Norman 
who raised taxes so he could dress in silk and satins. Silks and satins 
are very cheap compared to chain mail or a khaki Lieutenant's uniform 
and compared to the cost of fetters in an Austrian castle or an Afghan 
cave they might as well be nylon cardigans from the Oxfam shop. With 
holes in.

The best thing a young prince can do to increase the security of his 
nation is to stay in Windsor Castle and watch TV. The savings in 
security costs will be more than enough to send five better qualified 
junior officers to war zones to take his place. If he wants a military 
uniform to wear in public he can get one from a fancy dress shop. Again.	
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Martin Willett


http://mwillett.org/