Queen causes Camberley chaos

Today it’s been revealed that many New Labour ministers have been using/abusing the Royal Flights system as a form of RAF air taxi – including (and I’m not kidding here) environmental secretary Margaret Beckett, who regularly uses a large jet to commute to far away Derby from London, to tell her constituents how unnecessary car journeys damage our environment.

"Margaret, sit in a corner and think about what you are saying, and what you are doing ..."

Still, it was nice to see the Queen herself not falling prey to this when she attended Prince Harry’s passing out ceremony at Sandhurst, just outside Camberley. Instead, a fleet of Police motorbikes cordoned off large sections of the A30 so her Royal Majesty wouldn’t have to share the highway with dirty common traffic. One can almost imagine Prince Phillip with his usual failure to grasp such things commenting “all this talk of congestion – bah, the roads look fine to me”.

The Crow himself has only seen this kind of Police escort in practise twice before, in both instances it was to escort notorious murderers between prison and court. So perhaps the Police know something about the death of Diana we don’t …

"Hey lads - Harry's gran turned up then!"

We got stopped at a roundabout to let Her Majesty pass – a bit of a dangerous move in my opinion, as Mrs Crow has had a habit the last week of ploughing into the back of other cars at roundabouts!

"Who was that rather vulgar man in the Nissan Micra?"

The Queen may have left at 3pm (no doubt so she could get back to Buckingham Palace in time for the second showing of Neighbours), but the traffic chaos in Camberley seemed to stretch on past 6pm.

Fortunately the Crow cycles home, so just laughed and pointed at the motorists trapped in all the congestion.


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