He should. Its showing a bad message that he isn’t.
As a republican, Charles championing the environment in spite of the UK government is the only reason I could support him. I really really wanted him to be outspoken on this
Pretty sad that anyone thinks that PC speaking about the climate is taking a political viewpoint
Is there any point when he’s completely neutered in what he can say and will then go on to endorse a government dedicated to the environments destruction to line their pockets?
It’s not politics, it’s science. Is science not within he remit?
(Not that he should have a king’s remit.)
Everybody that has any impact in any country should mandatory attend these summits and stay there until all voices are heard (and video/statistics shown). Period.
The Queen (God rest her soul) spoke about the climate at COP26 , its no coincidence that there’s rumours that Liz Truss amd others in the Tory party want to roll back on net zero targets and Liz Triss not wanting the King to speak at COP27.
The Royals often champion action to avert climate change, this is just an anti-monachy PM trying to silence the Monachy
He should attend by sheer virtue that he’s the head of state and should be present as this sort of event.
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I reckon Labour could force a vote on this in the House of commons.
I imagine a lot of tories would support it.
Of course he should attend. I want him to hold the government to account on this – convention be damned.
This is not a political issue. If the COP conference can get the king of England to attend and give a speech then that is huge for the climate movement. Republican or monarchists can understand that.
As others have pointed out truss saying the king can’t go is a scary sign of her governments green policy. But also it feels a bit like someone has told Truss that this would be a good power move. It’s not, it looks fucking dumb.
Since when is caring for the environment a “political ideology”? It is a scientific fact that human activity, particularly from corporations and government policy, is changing the climate in a way that will cause destruction to many people and other animal species. It’s a fact that we are polluting many other substances causing the same damage in many other ways. That’s not a political view, it’s a scientific fact.
He’d probably like to do it. The question is whether they will let him.
She is the worst possible candidate at the worst possible time.
We seriously do not need a ‘green’ monarch. He has several houses, a retinue of servants, a private plane, travels regularly in a helicopter, has visited more countries than Father Christmas.
Just thank your lucky stars that you are a King and don’t get involved in the real world – it’s hard.
I just think it’s quietly hilarious how Liz Truss is getting slapped down by someone important every time she says anything.
Trickle-down economics? Biden: “It’s a waste of time and it never works.”
King Charles shouldn’t come to COP26? “Yeah, he totally should.”
Good, the current government clearly doesn’t give a shit about the environment so I hope Charles tells them to fuck off and champions it to embarrass them further, especially after Lis Truss asked him not to go.
He should fly there in his private royal jet like all the other delegates will, and then tell us we shouldn’t fly anywhere.
As a constitutional monarch he has no say in the matter. There would be little point in his going anyway because he could say or do nothing that could be seen to bind the UKG. If he did it would lead to conflict and that would certainly damage both the monarchy and UKG.
Do I think the monarch should get involved with political issues, no. Do I believe that climate change should be a political issue, no. Do I believe that the monarch should make a symbolic gesture to show that climate change is a serious issue, yes.
Brilliant idea. Fly out on a private plane to other side of the world, wine and dined with the finest food, all so he can rant that people like me with their 1.0l dacia are destroying the planet
I don’t think this is the issue. Even if Charles did go it would purely be a symbolic gesture he would not be able to agree to anything on behalf of the Uk.
The real issue is why Liz Truss appointed advisors like rich idiot, Matthew Sinclair who complains climate change agendas will affect his lifestyle. Especially with her moronic approach to giving her advisers carte blanche to do whatever they feel like.
“Kwasi collapsed the economy on his own! I was just filling my cheeks with marshmallows”
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people need to stop giving her instructions on how to open doors.
WE DON’T WANT MONARCHS INVOLVED IN PUBLIC POLICIES AND LAWS. We had a whole things about it.
No. Being monarch is a job which requires one to be utterly impartial. The monarch referees. He does not play for either team.
I don’t care if he made commitments when he was the Prince of Wales. Now that he’s king, he has a responsibility to avoid that sort of thing.
Yes, the late Queen did attend a similar event in the past, but that’s only because the UK hosted it. The King does not have that excuse.
Even if this is a play to secure the future of the monarchy with the maybe-republicans, it’s a good one.
Tories will be scared because he will speak out against fracking, fossil fuels and everything else his fuckwit prime minister and Victorian villain of an energy secretary are doing.
Replace the word “King” with “head of state” and does that change any opinions
I think he could make an inspiring speech while still staying out of all the nitty gritty detail
Agree. Climate change is a matter of fact, not one of politics. If Truss tries to stop him, he should do us all a favor and dissolve the government.
He should attend, he is a climate activist as is Prince William and it would make Britain look good when it looks so shit atm.
Despite everything that is wrong with the monarchy, the monarchy has the advantage of looking at things in there long term for obvious reasons.
The main problem with democracy is that most of not all its institutions are short term orientated 4/5 years tops, maybe up to 10 years.
For once we have a monarch with some sensible opinion that is relevant to what’s actually going on, can we please hear him speak.
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He should. Its showing a bad message that he isn’t.
As a republican, Charles championing the environment in spite of the UK government is the only reason I could support him. I really really wanted him to be outspoken on this
Pretty sad that anyone thinks that PC speaking about the climate is taking a political viewpoint
Is there any point when he’s completely neutered in what he can say and will then go on to endorse a government dedicated to the environments destruction to line their pockets?
It’s not politics, it’s science. Is science not within he remit?
(Not that he should have a king’s remit.)
Everybody that has any impact in any country should mandatory attend these summits and stay there until all voices are heard (and video/statistics shown). Period.
The Queen (God rest her soul) spoke about the climate at COP26 , its no coincidence that there’s rumours that Liz Truss amd others in the Tory party want to roll back on net zero targets and Liz Triss not wanting the King to speak at COP27.
The Royals often champion action to avert climate change, this is just an anti-monachy PM trying to silence the Monachy
He should attend by sheer virtue that he’s the head of state and should be present as this sort of event.
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I reckon Labour could force a vote on this in the House of commons.
I imagine a lot of tories would support it.
Of course he should attend. I want him to hold the government to account on this – convention be damned.
This is not a political issue. If the COP conference can get the king of England to attend and give a speech then that is huge for the climate movement. Republican or monarchists can understand that.
As others have pointed out truss saying the king can’t go is a scary sign of her governments green policy. But also it feels a bit like someone has told Truss that this would be a good power move. It’s not, it looks fucking dumb.
Since when is caring for the environment a “political ideology”? It is a scientific fact that human activity, particularly from corporations and government policy, is changing the climate in a way that will cause destruction to many people and other animal species. It’s a fact that we are polluting many other substances causing the same damage in many other ways. That’s not a political view, it’s a scientific fact.
He’d probably like to do it. The question is whether they will let him.
She is the worst possible candidate at the worst possible time.
We seriously do not need a ‘green’ monarch. He has several houses, a retinue of servants, a private plane, travels regularly in a helicopter, has visited more countries than Father Christmas.
Just thank your lucky stars that you are a King and don’t get involved in the real world – it’s hard.
I just think it’s quietly hilarious how Liz Truss is getting slapped down by someone important every time she says anything.
Trickle-down economics? Biden: “It’s a waste of time and it never works.”
King Charles shouldn’t come to COP26? “Yeah, he totally should.”
Good, the current government clearly doesn’t give a shit about the environment so I hope Charles tells them to fuck off and champions it to embarrass them further, especially after Lis Truss asked him not to go.
He should fly there in his private royal jet like all the other delegates will, and then tell us we shouldn’t fly anywhere.
As a constitutional monarch he has no say in the matter. There would be little point in his going anyway because he could say or do nothing that could be seen to bind the UKG. If he did it would lead to conflict and that would certainly damage both the monarchy and UKG.
Do I think the monarch should get involved with political issues, no. Do I believe that climate change should be a political issue, no. Do I believe that the monarch should make a symbolic gesture to show that climate change is a serious issue, yes.
Brilliant idea. Fly out on a private plane to other side of the world, wine and dined with the finest food, all so he can rant that people like me with their 1.0l dacia are destroying the planet
I don’t think this is the issue. Even if Charles did go it would purely be a symbolic gesture he would not be able to agree to anything on behalf of the Uk.
The real issue is why Liz Truss appointed advisors like rich idiot, Matthew Sinclair who complains climate change agendas will affect his lifestyle. Especially with her moronic approach to giving her advisers carte blanche to do whatever they feel like.
“Kwasi collapsed the economy on his own! I was just filling my cheeks with marshmallows”
​
people need to stop giving her instructions on how to open doors.
WE DON’T WANT MONARCHS INVOLVED IN PUBLIC POLICIES AND LAWS. We had a whole things about it.
No. Being monarch is a job which requires one to be utterly impartial. The monarch referees. He does not play for either team.
I don’t care if he made commitments when he was the Prince of Wales. Now that he’s king, he has a responsibility to avoid that sort of thing.
Yes, the late Queen did attend a similar event in the past, but that’s only because the UK hosted it. The King does not have that excuse.
Even if this is a play to secure the future of the monarchy with the maybe-republicans, it’s a good one.
Tories will be scared because he will speak out against fracking, fossil fuels and everything else his fuckwit prime minister and Victorian villain of an energy secretary are doing.
Replace the word “King” with “head of state” and does that change any opinions
I think he could make an inspiring speech while still staying out of all the nitty gritty detail
Agree. Climate change is a matter of fact, not one of politics. If Truss tries to stop him, he should do us all a favor and dissolve the government.
He should attend, he is a climate activist as is Prince William and it would make Britain look good when it looks so shit atm.
Despite everything that is wrong with the monarchy, the monarchy has the advantage of looking at things in there long term for obvious reasons.
The main problem with democracy is that most of not all its institutions are short term orientated 4/5 years tops, maybe up to 10 years.
For once we have a monarch with some sensible opinion that is relevant to what’s actually going on, can we please hear him speak.