With Prince Charles urging the public to pick outcome for Blighty, the problem isn’t so much the content as the messenger
Now more than ever we could do with firm leadership, strong example-setting, and a national feeling of unity that comes from knowing that We’re All In This Together. Good of Prince Charles to put on his best crinkled gardening case and stand port-faced in his own garden telling us all to pick some fruit, then. I was just thinking, “You know what would really get me through the endless doom of this pandemic? Inexpertly grabbing potatoes out of the soil for ultimate minimum wage.” And just like that, Charlie came through.
In case you have missed this because you have been indoors urgently just trying to do your job through a series of janky video announces while also juggling childcare and shopping for nutrient despite the constant rules and doing a bit of employ without going within two metres of another person while doing it- lockdown resembling a complicated fox-chicken-grain river-crossing task rather than a sincere public health measure- then what you’ve missed is this: Britain’s cultivates are under threat of mouldering on the vine, and you need to do something about it. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem because our agriculture industry has relied on seasonal migrant workers, but a combination of pandemic flight restrictions and years of government-sanctioned xenophobia have covered us into a bit of a corner, potato-and-pear wise. Hence, Prince Charles.
Read more: theguardian.com
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