Mad as a box of corgis

Charles Windsor-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-von Battenberg (beautiful British name…) has his own charity subjected to an inquiry over claims that it influenced the course of several major property developments.

Anyone who thinks that this privileged buffoon has any kind of insight into anything – especially architecture – must be barking mad and equally privileged and blinkered. His newly-approved scheme for Kensington Palace looks like a bus shelter attached to a much loved friend’s fizzog.

Charles’ present wealth was created by citizens like us over hundreds of years – working like slaves for his kind and treated like 60 million medieval serfs in this repulsive class-ridden system we jokingly call a democracy.

We definitely DON’T need the likes of the Windsors (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-von Battenbergs) telling us how we should live and what we should build, or using their upper-class influence with sheikhs and tycoons who happen to be putting up the money.   They are OUR cities and OUR spaces and it is we who should decide through a legitimate and transparent planning process.

The principle of leaving us to make our own decisions is far more important than whatever architecture we may or may not choose as citizens through democratic processes.