The Member of Parliament for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, has reportedly targeted four-year-old Prince George during the Labour Party Conference.
According to the Sunday Express, Ms Dent Coad said: “When Prince George goes to school, they [the media] look at his jumpers and, you know, £150 for a jumper, that’s a food bill for a family of four for a lot of people, and that’s outrageous, and people are outraged by that.”
Also speaking at the same anti-monarchy event, another panellist, councillor Ken Ritchie, said: “We had all the media attention recently when Prince George started school. We don’t know if he will grow up to be as bad as his grandfather or maybe his great-grandfather. Or that he will be as bland as his father.
“All we know is that at some stage George will be King unless we change the system or unless he has an unfortunate illness or accident.”
Emma Dent Coad, who was elected to represent Kensington at the 2017 General Election, has been the subject of great criticism over the past week following comments she has made about The Royal Family.
Ms Dent Coad told a group of activists that Prince Harry couldn’t actually fly a helicopter and “just sits there going ‘vroom vroom.’”
She also described herself as ‘The Royal Family’s worst nightmare’ and made claims about Prince Harry, the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Following the criticism, the 62-year-old released a statement in which she said that she ‘made a joke’, and her comments ‘were taken the wrong way.’
In the statement, the MP drew comparisons between The Royal Family, many of whom reside in Kensington, and those who lived in the Grenfell Tower before the devastating fire.
She said: “The government has recently found £3bn to restore Buckingham Palace, a palace with 52 Royal and guest bedrooms and over 188 staff bedrooms. It is lived in by just three members of the Royal Family. In addition, the government finds £3bn a year to support the Royal Family, including millions to refurbish apartments for their use in Kensington Palace.
“Meanwhile, a short walk away, survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have been abandoned in pokey hotel rooms for 15 weeks because there are no homes available for them.”
She adds: “Many of them are refugees, and some are former soldiers. I have total respect for them and the sacrifices they have made for their home countries and for ours. Army veterans are treated very poorly by the government; a close associate served in Iraq and Afghanistan and returned suffering from shock and PTSD. It took years to get a diagnosis, the system is punitive and he suffered unimaginably.
“On Monday night I made a joke. It has been taken the wrong way. Can we look at the real issues facing us now?”
What a Republican turd.
What she said never sounded like a joke , is anyone laughing ? I’m certainly not . Cheap shots because the Royal Family can’t be involved politically so are unable to respond to this obnoxious person .
But they are…always manipulating behind the scenes, constantly demanding starts subsidies and totally unaccountable in a public position. They bleed death from the country and are a feudal anachronism….time to end this farce
Mercy and I think we have problems with our current President. That woman is vile.
so why did you fight a revolutionary war against their despotic relatives…you can have the whole bunch back tomorrow if we could be given the right to vote for our head of state
What a vapid woman full of envy trying to make politics as dirty as possible. This is a clear communist action, a struggle of classes. She is encouraging the poor against the rich by telling them Royal family and wealthy people are the cause of their poverty and misfortunes.
It’s certainly a struggle of classes….these parasites have been feeding off us since 1066….it’s class war, from the top down…..time to scrap the so called royal family….
I really feel these comments are totally uncalled for. Prince George has to weare a school unform jumper the same as the other students. As for the rest of the unsavoury anti royal talk, stop to think how much a President will cost the country, no pounds to be madef i
m visitors flocking to see the likes of Donald Trump!
Yes a school uniform where the jumpers cost £150….. Disgusting…..how can you tolerate such inequality let alone support it?
I am So Feed up with this Witch!!
It is not a joke when you talk about a child having an illness or an accident. That is disgusting.