Having decided on a military career, William was admitted to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in January 2006. … His active service as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot ended in September 2013.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%2C_Prince_of_Wales
So he’s had… 20 years to say something about the military’s treatment of women and has kept quiet. Suddenly he feels the need to speak out. Skeptical.
Not quite. It’s only since Charles’ cancer diagnosis that William has been given more of a public role. It wouldn’t have been his place to make these statements before.
It wouldn’t have been his place to make these statements before.
That’s quite a deranged statement.
I draw your memory back to the fracas caused when the previous Prince of Wales started giving his opinions on architecture in public. They’re expected to keep quiet.
I draw your memory back to the fracas caused when the previous Prince of Wales started giving his opinions on architecture in public.
I have no such memory.
They’re expected to keep quiet.
That’s quite a deranged statement.
It’s deranged to think that, as a rule, noone gives a fuck what some peak toff thinks of fuck all given how utterly divorced from reality they traditionally have been?
I think you need to give your head a wobble, lad.
On occasion they have the right idea. That doesn’t mean “we” generally give a jumping monkey fuck what the most privileged of the privileged have bouncing around inside their cavernous skulls.
They have learned to keep their mouths shut, lest they rock the boat and get excoriated for the Nth time.
