Liberal Burblings

I’m no fan of Prince Edward. I’m a raving Republican and Eddyboy strikes me as one of the less inspiring members of a very uninspiring and, importantly, unnecessary Royal Family.

But I’ve heard what he said in Australia about the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme:

The sense of adventure, the sense of excitement, that it gave you that sort of risk element, young people are like that still; that sense of adventure, that sense that (death) is possible…Obviously we don’t want that to happen, certainly it’s not our intention … It was just that psychology about what makes young people tick.

Well, it’s true. He could have phrased it better. It’s somewhat offensive to the family of a lad who died in the bush in 2006 while on an DofE award outing. But it’s hardly an earth-shattering statement.

If anything, he’s probably given much needed and deserved publicity to this fine award scheme of which I am a proud Bronze badge holder. Only the other night, I was recalling how our Chemistry teacher came out when we were on our expedition, some thirty five years ago, to check that we had put our tents up OK and wouldn’t get cold overnight. Hardly ‘living on the edge’.

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