[Even the royal family has its division of…]
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Even the royal family has its division of labour.
While the Queen toured the Middle East liberating British drunks and thieves from foreign jails land receiving presents that if sold could settle the public sector workers' claim in full) her son, Prince Charles, applied himself to sorting out the problems of British capitalism.
His speech at the Savoy Hotel on the shortcomings of British management was the sort of populist waffle that is the stock in trade of Labour and Liberal leaders.
Folksy advice to management to speak to their workers more nicely and not to be grumpy might not seem to have much bearing on the contradictions between labour and capital but it is a theme which has a long history.
The speech, made during a period of unrelenting witch-hunts against all members of the working class threw the press into a quandry:
On the one hand newspapers have a policy of never carping about the main characters in the royal soap opera. On the other hand they generally feel obliged to defend managers against this kind of criticism.
The speech was the front page lead story in the Express,