DEAR PRINCE CHARLES, WILL YOUR GREAT RESET BEGIN AT HOME?

There’s a Drafts folder in my head with unsent letters to so many Very Important People. My letters usually get written (in my mind) when I take Milton for a walk, poop bag in hand. Milton always offloads, and I think it’s time I did, too.

Dear Prince Charles,

I hadn’t heard of the Great Reset until the headlines in Canadian newspapers screamed: “Pierre Poilievre says Stop the Great Reset”.

Sorry, I am usually well-informed about things and all that, just that I had been busy lately trying to dodge the corononavirus, homeschooling my daughter and looking for a job, any job (after they laid me off after several years of hard and honest work).

To bring you up to date, Mr Poilievre is a Conservative member of the Canadian parliament who once aspired to replace his boss Andrew Scheer as the head of the party, and then dropped the idea, because he probably felt he wasn’t really up to it.

In other words, an honest broker.

And a top notch Conservative to boot. Who knows, he might freshen up his resumé one day and reapply for the job which is Erin O’Toole’s at the moment.

In other words, a man who ought to be taken seriously.

So I decided to look up the Great Reset and learnt, to my utter astonishment, that you were at the forefront of launching this very idea at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last year.

What a great idea, Your Royal Highness!

It’s humanity’s chance to craft a more sustainable and equitable world in the wake of the pandemic, you said.

Did YOU say that? Did you WRITE that?? If you did, I won’t be cross with you any more like I was after watching season four of The Crown.

I’m not the envious kind, but I can’t stop thinking the world is an unfair place. All those palaces! Limousines! Genuflecting staff at your beck and call!

You get to be called Your Royal Highness, and my boss forgot my name (sometimes) after a full shift.

Of course, The Crown was too focused on your romancing someone and marrying someone else, and never shows you doing real work like writing or  making speeches like this in places like Switzerland.

So yes, I agree that we must reset the economy. Make things more equitable for everyone. And I guess as you were the first to speak out publicly about the Great Reset, you must have given it some thought. How exciting!

I am checking my phone regularly for news headlines about your next moves.

Camilla and Prince Charles move into a two-bedroom condo.

Prince of Wales spotted driving Vauxhall Astra.

I haven’t read  anything like that yet.

But surely you are not all talk? Mr Poilievre could tell you that being all talk could you cost you the top job. Even if it’s Mummy who has to hand it to you.

Sincerely,

Fizool Timepasswala