If you didn't know, King Charles III is a climate-change nut, and in his first act as climate-change-nut-in-charge, he has told all the heads of state coming from abroad for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral that they cannot use private cars to drive to Westminster Abbey, and that they should not use private aircraft in England, including planes and helicopters.
Instead his highness has offered them buses… "en masse."
That's right King Charles III wants to put all the heads of state together on specially chartered public transportation.
You cannot make this stuff up, unless you were say writing a political thriller where all the heads of state were on a bus, together, en masse, creating the single-most tempting target terrorism has ever known.
But London's pretty secure; let's see if we can't spice up the plot a little. How about this? Because of all the staffing shortages, the FCDO has also warned,
...unforeseen events may require commercial and private flights to divert from the intended airport of arrival.
So these heads of state may have to land somewhere other than London and get a long tour of the English countryside sans helicopter on their way to London.
Someone call Gerard Butler... quick!
Despite the obvious security risks, you have to admire King Charles's chutzpah in demanding all the other leaders act like they really believe climate change is real: no eighty-five car caravans for Biden this time.
And Biden has formally accepted the invitation to the funeral.
"Can you imagine Joe Biden on the bus?" one foreign ambassador based in London complained via WhatsApp message early Sunday.
The meme potential of Biden on a bus is off the charts.
I'm so excited!!!
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