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Duke of Woke Harry is blind to his own hypocrisy

Harry and Meghan are set to speak at the UN, which is sure to produce the laughs when they display all the hypocrisy of the Left.

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Wonderful! Prince Harry will next Monday give what’s generously called a “keynote” address at some informal meeting at the United Nations, accompanied by wife Meghan Markle.

It’s wonderful because this Duke and Duchess of Woke can be counted on to produce the laughs by displaying all the hypocrisy of the woke Left.

Take their last “royal tour” of New York, last September, accompanied by a camera crew from Netflix, which is funding their extravagant lifestyle.

What Netflix filmed was hilarious, but in a totally unintentional way.

For instance, Markle and Harry had a very public and pointless meeting with Amina Mohammed, the United Nations deputy secretary-general.

Mohammed praised their commitment to “sustainable development”, which instantly made a joke of the $5400 cashmere coat Markle chose to wear on that 24-degree day.

Harry and Markle also strolled onto the stage of a “Global Citizen Live” concert to read a sermon on fighting the Covid virus, but struck another bum note.

“Look at us all here, 60,000 strong in New York City,” Harry shouted, before asking: “Are we prepared to do what’s necessary to end this pandemic?”

Harry and Meghan during the Global Citizen Live festival in New York. Picture: AFP
Harry and Meghan during the Global Citizen Live festival in New York. Picture: AFP

The cheers were muted. The 60,000 people jammed in like sardines seemed to realise it was dumb to pretend they were doing everything to stop the virus spreading.

Markle even read her children’s book, The Bench, to underprivileged children from Harlem while wearing a $8000 Loro Piana coat, matching $2300 pants, and nearly $400,000 of jewellery.

Worse, her book was written to honour a father’s bond with his child, when Markle has cut off her own father and helped divide Harry from his.

Monday’s visit promises to be just as funny, because Harry will speak at Nelson Mandela Day function, whose theme is the supposed link between hunger and global warming.

Of course, Harry could finally speak true and say, hang on, global warming isn’t causing hunger. The world has instead had record grain harvests.

He could say what’s instead causing hunger are global warming policies. Sri Lanka’s government banned man-made fertilisers, citing global warming, which has since devastated harvests of rice and tea, helping to bankrupt the country and causing mass hunger.

Holland, the world’s second-biggest food exporter, is now driving its own farmers out of business by demanding they also slash use of nitrogen fertilisers.

Harry could say all this, but the Duke of Woke seems blind to such hypocrisy.

Count on him making a fool of himself all over again.

Andrew Bolt
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