“MANKIND must go green or die,” declared Prince Charles a few years ago.

Last weekend, however, he instructed his royal helicopter pilot, without any trace of irony, to fly 60 miles to Highgrove in Gloucester, and then another 68 miles to Windsor great park, where he stepped into his waiting Jaguar for the few yards distance to the Polo Club.

What justification is there in his flying around in helicopters? It’s a status symbol.

How is he going to convince an average family of four to cut down on car use, when he flies around the country?

His Royal Hypocrite is certainly no environmentalist, that’s for certain.

Meanwhile, “The Speaker is always mindful of costs,” said his pompous, out-of-touch spokesman recently at the House of Lords.

Our dear Speaker, it seems, spent £175 of public money on a chauffeur-driven car journey of less than a mile. What a pompous little..!

And now we have news of Baroness Wilcox, who charges £5,700 a month as an allowance for her ‘presence’ at the House of Lords, even though she lives in the shadow of Big Ben and walks to ‘work.’ She, it appears, is one of more than 100 peers who claim this extra bung while living within striking distance of the Lords.

With noses deep in the gravy trough, how they Lord it!

What contempt they have for us taxpayers in the cocoon of a world they’ve built themselves.

JEFF ADAMS Bloomsbury Close, Swindon