DOMINIC LAWSON: Indulged Charles must stop giving us morally vain lectures from his ivory tower
He appears to think it's an 'appalling' thing for the Government to choose the same country as a venue for those who have been entering the UK illegally in dinghies. Yet Rwanda has been praised by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for offering a safe haven for people fleeing war-torn Libya.
This is most unwise. It is crucial to the maintenance of respect for the institution of the monarchy that it is seen not only to be above politics, but to take no side in political debate. Demonstrators protest outside of an airport perimeter fence ahead of a planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, at Gatwick AirportYet the effect of the publication of the Prince's views on the Rwanda scheme is entirely the opposite. Commentators of the Left have hailed him; and those on the other side have, to use the Prince's own favourite word, been 'appalled'.
From that perspective, the moral strictures against the Rwanda scheme issued by those who live in palaces — the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, inveighed against the policy in his Easter sermon — sound like morally vain lectures from an ivory tower. 'Artificial' fertilisers and man-made pesticides have been the single biggest element in the ability of the planet to feed itself even as the population has soared. They have not just prevented the global starvation widely predicted, but have given the people of this country the chance to eat daily what our forebears would have regarded as a rare luxury.Pressures
'At present we use somewhere in the region of 2 million hectares of land to supplement our national diets. Were organic farming to be adopted wholesale, we would need nearly 6 million more hectares of land — much of which would need to come from Europe.'
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