Topless pics of Kate Middleton have left large swathes of the UK population choking on their corn-flakes and frothing at the mouth in anger, but should any right-minded person really be getting that worked up about ‘Kate-gate?’
The British public and their puppet masters are angry, in fact they’re livid, and in some quarters they’re turning purple with rabid outrage. Why? Is it because they’ve had a stomach full of the poverty, unemployment, homelessness, crime, crippling debt, and widespread corruption which have all conspired to make large parts of the UK such a despairing and bleak place to live?
Nope! It’s because a French magazine have dared to publish pictures of Kate Middleton snapped while she was lounging languidly around in private without a bikini top on.
The French gossip rag Closer have run a five page spread under the titillating headline ‘Oh My God’ of the Duchess of Cambridge relaxing topless with Prince William on a balcony in Southern France.
The decision to publish the photos in the wake of the Prince Harry Vegas pics that got the Windsors hot under the collar has been met with outrage by the British media, public, and of course, the royal family.
Admittedly, everyone is entitled to their privacy and the paparazzi have overstepped the mark, but it’s what they’re paid to do. And who pays them? Indirectly, it’s the same Joe public junkies who buy the gossip rags because they crave another dose of celebrity crazed content to jack up on and perhaps jack off too.
If the herd would stop regarding Middleton, and the rest of the Royal brood as something ‘special’ then grubby hacks with cameras wouldn’t hound them like a pack of wolves.
How much sympathy does someone who has spent a summer watching the Olympics and attending royal gala after gala before jetting around the world on one long exotic holiday deserve, compared with an entire generation whose futures have been compromised by the greed and corruption of the privileged few.
Kate caught topless has upset people in the way that pictures of Pippa Middleton swanning around with gun toting French playboys never did. In part, it’s because the British media and public love to perceive the Duchess of Cambridge as a vulnerable and innocent sweetheart who needs protecting from the harsh realities of the world, and in part it’s due to a damaging and consensual hypocrisy that props up the class system and uneven distribution of wealth which Great Britain thrives upon.
The UK media is falling over itself to report that he royal family is angry! Big deal! A lot of people in the UK and the world over are angry and have been for a long time now, and the cause of that rage remains unexamined, unexplained, and unsolved by the powers that be.
It’s because there’s more important things to worry about don’t you know? Such as a Princess being caught sunbathing without a bra. And when this latest storm in a tea-cup blows over there’ll be another tasty morsel in an ever steady diet of nothing except bread and circuses to distract and nullify us.
The question remains. How can Britain be broken when there’s so many spanners in it?
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