{"id":568380,"date":"2025-11-13T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568380\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:47:21","slug":"king-charles-iiis-unfiltered-christmas-speech-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568380\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III\u2019s unfiltered Christmas speech \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remain, on this day as on all days, above the political fray, unreadable and sphinx-like, an impartial custodian of the perfect, unwritten constitution that governs life on these fair isles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But let me tell you man, that Rishi guy. Wow. Seriously? Pissing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/elgin-marbles-row-labour-keir-starmer-mocks-uk-pm-rishi-sunak-greece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">off the Greeks over the Parthenon Marbles<\/a>? Sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-boris-johnson-charles-plan-asylum-seekers-rwanda-deportation-commonwealth-human-rights-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asylum seekers<\/a> to Rwanda? Seriously dude. Not cool. I mean we\u2019re not talking Liz Truss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/king-charles-liz-truss-buckingham-palace-weekly-audience-oh-dear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">levels of bad<\/a> here, but I\u2019m now actually looking forward to talking to Keir Starmer every week, which literally nobody <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/keir-starmer-uk-labour-party-conference-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has ever thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah and turning up for all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/britain-pm-rishi-sunak-blink-miss-cop28-climate-summit-uae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight minutes at COP28<\/a>? Drilling for new oil and gas? Not like I\u2019ve been banging on about this environment stuff for ooh, I don\u2019t know, 50 years is it? No biggie mate, I\u2019m just the literal king. Don\u2019t sweat it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-1870880084-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4054803\"  \/>Britain\u2019s King Charles III poses during the recording of his Christmas message at Buckingham Palace, London | POOL photo by Jonathan Brady\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I digress, albeit in an impartial and inscrutable way, an unreadable bauble on the Christmas tree of state. I prefer to make my political interventions through subtle gestures, like this fetching \u2018Vote Labour immediately\u2019 Christmas jumper I wear inscrutably before you today.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond our shores, we think at Christmas time of those less fortunate than ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>In the United States, so absolutely sure their little \u201crevolution\u201d against unaccountable rich people was a really good idea, they gather today around a warm Truth Social to hear traditional festive tales. \u201cThe very weak and ineffective Birdbrain;\u201d \u201cSleepy Joe\u2019s poor work ethic;\u201d and, the time honored classic, the \u201cdegenerate psychopath that truely [sic] hates the USA!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I remain, on this day as on all days, above the political fray, unreadable and sphinx-like, an impartial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1193,7709,7730,7731,1760,518,7710,519,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-568380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-king-charles-iii","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115544356104661721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}