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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-21519917

"The Philippines must be half empty - you're all here running the NHS"

If most people said that it wouldn't sound wrong at all.

Ironic casual racism?

To be fair, he is one a handful of royals that I can tolerate. The guy doesn't give a shit about the media or what people think of him and his happy to express his own personality, okay so he makes some deeply inappropriate remarks, who cares he is attempting to be funny little more.

No. He is a stupid racist prick and a privileged at our expense one at that.

The only thing I can say in his defence (and that of all royals) is it is not his fault that we are so backward in this country that we have not killed the fucking lot of them, or at least taken all their money and declared a republic.

Neither is it his fault that we are so backward that we give them one iota of attention. AFAIAC they should not be mentioned unless it is as part of a clear policy of trying to get rid of them.

To be fair to him, the Philippines have had a heavily promoted nursing program that has a qualification equivalent of the one in the UK so that they can study at home then move over here to earn more money to send back home. So there are a lot of nurses from the Philippines here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/23/nursing-dream-filipinos-uk-jobs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18575810