The King was facing criticism last night for forcing four Cabinet Ministers, including the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, to fly 400 miles to his private mansion in Scotland for a taxpayer-funded meeting.
He was accused of wasting an excessive amount of money and climate hypocrisy because the meeting was held partly to formally appoint the new Net Zero Minister in charge of cutting carbon emissions.
Jeremy Hunt, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Privy Council President Penny Mordaunt and Energy and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho all flew on the same aircraft to Ayrshire for the Privy Council meeting on Friday at the taxpayers’ expense.
Ordinarily, Privy Council meetings are held monthly at Buckingham Palace or Windsor, but the King held the meeting at Dumfries House to coincide with a party on Friday night to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the public opening of the property, which he purchased for £45 million in 2007.
The King is a well-known climate campaigner and yesterday morning opened a sustainable farming skills centre on the Dumfries House estate.
A few hours later he appeared to have flown to Doncaster racecourse, 230 miles away.
Last night former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker, himself a Privy Council member, said the King’s decision to host a meeting of the council in Scotland ‘drives a coach and horses through any claim he has to be interested in the environment’, adding that this was an outrageous waste of money by King Charles.
A Government spokesman refused to say how much the flight cost or if the aircraft was private or commercial, but emphasised that value for money was a priority.
Charles has been living off the taxpayer and spoiled all his life, even before he was King, and why is he meddling? He’s the King and shouldn’t be interfering in politics.
However, it is his Government, and it’s his consent that forms each government, but should he be meddling, no not really. He gives consent to form a government. That doesn’t give him the privilege to run it.
The King of England doesn’t come across as an extremely smart man, but when it comes to his own entitlement, he’s very smart.
Intellect and academic accomplishments don’t feature prominently on the King’s Curriculum Vitae, but when becoming a royal it’s never been needed.
He lives a privileged life, gets waited on hand and foot and has the very best of everything, so I’d say he hasn’t done bad, smart or not!
People are going to fly, but it’s actually not a good look when you’re taking helicopters and planes to get around when you claim you’re concerned about the environment. In fact, they’re not concerned in the slightest, which makes them hypocrites.
The great King, the eco-warrior, who obviously isn’t that concerned at all. He just wants to tell all us peasants how to live, but not follow his own lifestyle choices.
Clearly, King Charles doesn’t know how to use Zoom, which could have easily been used for the meeting, or better still, schedule the meeting for when he’s back in London, otherwise, it looks like he’s saying, ‘do as I say, not as I do’.
The government told us that ‘we are all in this together’, what a joke that is. Someone should tell them about the poverty and foodbanks in the United Kingdom. That’s like saying, ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’.
It’s not about climate change. Their top objective is to control by using climate change as a justification.
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