Saturday, December 11, 2010

Charles and Camilla

After the student protest in London on Thursday over the increase in tuition fees and the axing of the Education Maintenance Allowance for poorer students, and the attack on Charley Saxe Coburg Gotha's Roller, I loved this comment from "softMick" on The Guardian website today:

 "Irony could not have wished for a more timely coincidence, as young people out in force to show their revulsion at the raising of tuition fees and abolition of EMA by a government headed by very rich ex-public schoolboy Cameron and his side-kick comfortably rich ex-public schoolboy boy Clegg, subsequently barring access to higher education for kids from low income backgrounds, find themselves confronted by two royal parasites shmoozing along in the old Rolls, probably wearing clothes and jewellery that would cover a poor student's tuition fees for an entire degree course, with all expenses thrown in.  The sheer obscenity of the tableau will be lost on the better   offs, including the royals, and completely ignored by the media intent upon gaining knighthoods for their execs and toeing the government line. But it sickened me to the core, and makes me feel ashamed of my country and my government."

For your enjoyment, here's the pic again.