Disaster For Monarchy: It's a boy.

I would not be surprised if, when the gender of the new born prince was announced, the hearts of many Buckingham Palace officials dropped. A girl would have been a much more favoured outcome, as now The Monarchy is set on a path of probably at least 100 yrs of kingship.

With a recent poll showing that 53% of the population were not bothered or interested in the birth, Buckingham Palace must realise that, although they ‘appear’ to be going through a purple patch of popularity, that popularity is fragile and could be damaged irreversibly when the Queen dies and Charles assumes the throne.

Women make up a large majority of monarchy watchers and view it in the same way they view a soap opera. To many, Charles will always be the man who cuckolded Princess Diana, and in the eyes of many, it was his philandering and cold treatment of the Princess of Wales that indirectly lead to her death. Add into the heady brew of resentment, the fact that the woman who was the reason for Charles adultery, Camilla, will become queen and you realise that Charles will have a very small margin of error to work with, in the eyes of the British Public.

Prince Charles is not a popular royal among the public. He is seen as indulged, meddlesome and utterly detached from the everyday lives of normal people, people who do not have a royal equerry to put toothpaste on their toothbrush or be expected to work the birth of their first born into a polo schedule.

Watching a princess, who was born to be Queen, growing up, would have been a welcome distraction to the rather gruesome sight of King Charles and Queen Camilla sashaying around their kingdom. Add into the mix, the inevitable political meddling that Charles is already renown for, and you start to feel sorry for William and Kate, who may have to pick up the pieces of what could be a very unpopular reign.

 Charles and Camilla already have the disengaged and disconnected look of “let them eat cake” about them. Once the steadying hand and protection of the Queen has been removed, who knows what excesses they may be capable of, especially if their reign is conducted under a Tory government. King Charles and Prime Minister Cameron may be able to swap tales of chasing an animal across the countryside to the point of exhaustion and then watching it being ripped apart by a pack of hounds, but the conversation could be a bit thin, when they discuss the travails and problems of a working class family, living on a Wolverhampton housing estate, or anywhere else up north. The chance of that conversation ever happening is slim.

The concern is that the monarchy watchers will look towards William and Kate, and the younger royals, for a scintilla of hope appearing on what may be a very bleak royal horizon, and  they may struggle to fulfill expectations. Kate has the look of an eating disorder waiting to happen, while Uncle Harry strikes you as a likely candidate for fulfilling the role of a dissolute and debauched royal playboy. A role his own uncle, Andrew, it would appear from news reports,has tried to fill, but has only succeeded in being tainted with the stink of paedophilia, arms dealing and the abuse of his unearned position and wealth.

Oh for a cute curly headed, carefree princess to bound across the royal stage and raise the spirits of the royalists. But there’s still time. Kate should spend a few months increasing her pie and doughnut intake and put on a few pounds, before taking on pregnancy number two. If she produces a girl then her job is done.

What she will do for the rest of her life, other than waving at people keen to bask in her reflected glory, I’m not really sure.

Trolling.

The national discussion over trolling is being framed, by the media, in a biased and brazenly self interested manner. They perpetuate the image of a troll in the same way the media used to portray paedophiles.

 Rather than face up to the truth about child abuse, it was much more convenient to portray a child abuser as a dirty old man in a mac, who hung around playgrounds, when the statistically proven truth is that 90% of all child abuse is committed within the family, normally by a father, grandfather, or uncle. The public were happy to comply with this stereotyping because it allowed them to avoid facing up to the unpalatable truth.

Journalists, reporters and radio show hosts are now keenly portraying, without being challenged, trolls, as hate filled, inadequate, angry loners, who are still living with their mother and who bang out vitriol filled misogynistic messages on social media, whilst dressed only in their underpants, from the safety of a pizza boxed strewn bedroom.

The talk show hosts and media commentators conveniently ignore the professional trolls within their midst, who are currently active within the media and write and work for high profile media outlets and institutions. These trolls are allowed to carry out their own particularly abusive misanthropic and grossly misogynistic trolling in plain cover. Using the so called legitimacy of ‘being a proper journalist’ as cover. They are never challenged by their media colleagues because a) you don’t sh*t on your own doorstep,b) all so called legitimate journalists despise citizen journalists because many citizen journalists ably demonstrate, to all, that having a point of view and articulating it in the written word, is not a particularly difficult art,and c) celebrities, politicians and journalists dislike criticism of any kind from the 'plebs, so dismiss all citizen journalists as trouble making loons.It is easier than facing the truth of their own prejudices.

 Examples of some hate filled vitriol by professional journalist’s trolls.

AA Gill – Sunday Times. Referred to presenter Clare Balding as ‘a dyke on a bike’.

 ( misogynistic and homophobic?)

Melanie Phillips – Daily Mail. She claimed that Britain was in the grip of“ a government-backed drive to promote the gay agenda” and that homosexuality was being forced upon schoolchildren. She went on to say that teaching children about emperor penguins and seahorses, animals where the males care for their offspring, was part of a wider gay conspiracy. ( Homophobic?)

Richard Littlejohn- mail online. Commenting on the murders of five prostitutes in Ipswich.

“Frankly, I’m tired of the lame excuses about how they all fell victim to ruthless pimps who plied them with drugs. These women were on the streets because they wanted to be…

These five women were on the streets because even the filthiest, most disreputable back-alley “sauna” above a kebab shop wouldn’t give them house room.

The men who used them were either too mean to fork out whatever a massage parlour charges, or simply weren’t fussy. Some men are actually turned on by disgusting, drug-addled street whores” (Misogynistic in the extreme?)

Toby Young – Sun on Sunday. Referred to the murder of Milly Dowler as ‘that murdered schoolgirl thing’. ”. (Young is involved in an Academy school involved in educating young girls).

Toby Young – On Radio 5live he commented. “women dress in short skirts and low cut tops and then complain when they get ‘noticed’ by men”. I think that's another variant of the 'she was asking for it' defence. (Young is involved in an Academy school involved in educating young girls).

Toby Young- Twitter. “serious cleavage behind Ed Milibands head. Anyone know who it belongs to? ”. (Young is involved in an Academy school involved in educating young girls).

James Delingpole – Telegraph. A twitter comment made to Toby Young, referring to Youngs reply to a Guardian piece written by Suzanne Moore. “ Toadmeister (Toby Young) gives Suzanne Moore such a seeing to, she’ll be walking bow-legged for months”. (unpleasant violent rape imagery?)

Katie Hopkins - Ex-reality show contestant. " Ginger babies.Like a baby, just so much harder to love". ( misanthropic?)

Giles Coren – Times. Comment on the suggestion that Polish was now the second language.

"Many of you is no doubt read in famous Times newspaper, yesterday before yesterday, how "Polish is now England's second language". This very interesting small information piece. For what is probable esteemed Times readership not aware: your columnist actual Polski man. Is come in boat from small willage..."

It went on:

"...today I am celebrate Polish is become number two language entire of England not count Wales by write whole opinion column topical observation of week's news for first time in actual Polish language." (Lazy racism or a pathetic twat trying to be funny?).

These are just a few examples of the type of comments made by so-called, except Hopkins, legitimate journalists, the contents of which appears just as abhorrent and repulsive as anything produced by a troll.

If you would like to see live trolling, I suggest you turn the sound up during Prime Ministers Question Time and listen to the verbal trolling from male MP's, mainly Tory's, when a female MP stands up to ask a question. 

PostSript. 01/08/2013. It was extremely gratifying to watch on Newsnight (BBC2 30/07/2013,watch on iplayer) Labour MP Stella Creasy ably demonstrate to the nation what an odious kn*b Toby Young is. Bravo Stella.

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