00:00What do you think about Harry being in protection because of Al-Qaeda?
00:02Well, I think this is just Prince Harry being the entitled Prince once again.
00:07He's always bleating about something or other, complaining that he's got the hardest lot in life, hasn't he?
00:13Here he is. He's back in the UK, or has been back in the UK, in the latest stage of his legal fight
00:19with the Home Office over having state-funded, taxpayer-funded personal security for him
00:26and his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children.
00:30Lily and Prince Archie, when they come to the UK.
00:33Now, the Home Office said that when they stepped back from royal duties,
00:39when they left the royal family as working members of the royal family, shall I say,
00:42back in 2020, that meant they were no longer eligible to have taxpayer-funded security.
00:48It was the same when, for instance, Diana, Prince Harry's mother, was no longer an HRA.
00:53She was stripped of that, you know, so it's the same again.
00:56And he's appealing against this, and he's requesting to have this protection in place when he comes back.
01:04Now, by that, he wants to be able to have British police, obviously, with guns, because he says his life's a threat.
01:11But what I will say is, Prince Harry, did you think about that when you boasted in your autobiography spare
01:18about killing al-Qaeda members while fighting as a soldier in Afghanistan?
01:23No, I mean, that meant that he fought alongside it, put their lives in danger.
01:28That's what led to what is essentially a fatsoir, isn't it?
01:31Exactly, exactly. So there you are.
01:34And it also hasn't stopped him going into what you could argue is a war zone when he went to Ukraine last week.
01:42So, you know, you have to wonder, you know, does he pick his battles wisely?
01:45Does he actually think about these things before he goes ahead?
01:48I think that as a couple, they're awful. I really do. I really do. I think they're awful.
01:54Say what you think. I think that they have capitalised on being quite talentless.
02:01I think that for them to, you know, coming from me, that's saying something.
02:05And I think that for them to... All right, that wasn't that funny.
02:09But also, I think that for them to have, like, doing these racism accusations and all of this
02:15when our late Queen and Prince Philip were seriously ill, I think is absolutely dreadful.
02:20But, but, I have some sympathy for this position, because he will always be the son of the king.
02:28He will always have served the country.
02:31And I'm sorry, in the UK, he doesn't have...
02:34He can't have armed protection because of the fact that, in a way, he can pay for people with guns.
02:39Do we really want a situation as annoying, as irritating, as ridiculous their TV shows and bleating on actually are?
02:47Do we really want a situation where we allow a Muslim terror group, Al-Qaeda, to get such a win in hurting him?
02:54No-one would want that. No-one would want to give that propaganda benefit and win to Al-Qaeda.
03:01So, I have sympathy for that position.
03:03With that, Mike, we'll just take a straw poll, so by virtue of shouting at me, please.
03:09Who thinks that Harry should get taxpayer-funded protection because of the threat of Al-Qaeda?
03:14Yes.
03:14Yes.
03:15OK, who thinks he shouldn't?
03:17Me.
03:19That's real, because 60-40 in favour of shouldn't, I think.
03:22No, 70-30.
03:23OK.
03:25Go on, Barry, you'll be...
03:27Because I suppose one of the points would be, whilst it's awful, and no doubt there is clearly a threat from Al-Qaeda,
03:31has he not brought it on himself a bit?
03:34Look, he's a young man who fought for this country, and I respect him for that.
03:41He's a young man who, having seen some of his friends disfigured and become limbless,
03:49set up his charity, and I respect him for that.
03:54He went to Ukraine, not to flaunt himself in a war zone, but actually to visit some of the veterans of that war
04:04who had been injured and lost limbs as well, and I respect him for that.
04:09Of course he should have taxpayer-funded protection in this country,
04:14because he is, as Christos says, the son of our head of state, the son of our king.
04:20And if there's any way to attack this country, it is through the son of our monarch.
04:29It seems blindingly obvious to me that the original Home Office decision to take away protection from him
04:37was quite simply wrong.
04:40You don't ask to be born into the royal family.
04:44It's something you have no control over.
04:46It just happens to you.
04:48OK, it's got huge pluses, and we might all be envious of those,
04:52but it has got quite a few negatives as well.
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