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He's a right royal knockout

Light, Bob
http://socialistreview.org.uk/392/hes-right-royal-knockout

Publisher:  Socialist Review
Date Written:  01/06/2014
Year Published:  2014  
Resource Type:  Article

At the Invictus Games Harry will be centre stage in his uniform - no, not the Nazi one - as the Warrior Prince. Yeah, right.The PR story will be about a princely "hero" who served "on the front line" in Afghanistan. Except "Harry Wales" actually spent his four months in Afghanistan entirely at Camp Bastion, several hundred miles from the Helmand "front line" .

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Astonishingly these "games" are being held in the Olympic Stadium over four days. Tickets are on sale at 12.00 a pop and there will be live wall-to-wall coverage by the BBC. The cost is being underwritten by a special grant from George Osborne alongside sponsorship from Land Rover, British Telecom and Jaguar cars.

It is especially fitting that Land Rover is paying for some of this as a parliamentary report last year established it was the inadequacies of the Land Rover Snatch vehicle that led to so many of these men being maimed in the first place.

For the ruling class of this country the Invictus Games serve two important purposes. Firstly they address the question of (in Frank Zappa's words) The Idiot Bastard Son. What can be done about Prince Harry?

Since he has proved himself to be so utterly useless at everything else, these games are being used to give Harry's image a make-over.

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