Elites rise up against the people
Gene Kerrigan is a leading Irish journalist working for the Sunday Independent.
Gene has carved out a lucrative career defending the Little Man against
the Elites. He rails against the contempt held by the latter for the
former, their arrogant dismissal of their real fears and interests. For
Gene the Little Man is a hero, a decent law-abiding provider for his
family. The backbone of the country. As indeed he is.
You can imagine my surprise therefore when I read the following in his most recent column. Referring to Brexit he tells us that 'the demographics of the vote tell their story. The old, those least likely to have a passport, to know anything about anywhere beyond their own narrow borders, wanting their country back'.
By jingo, the most arrogant elitist plutocrat would be hard put to better that. Incidentally did you notice how 'wanting their country back' has now become a Bad Thing. Warming to his subject he continues: 'But the country many of them wanted back was the mythical [my emphasis] England of their youth, a town in Midsomer county where Princess Diana still lives and the marriage to Charles worked out, where Miss Marples investigates cutesy murders, Mrs. Dale still writes her diary, and there's no "political correctness" to dissuade them from calling Idris Elba dirty names'.
Well Gene, apart Miss Marples that particular country was not mythical. It was real. And it was pleasant, orderly, quiet, wealthy and law-abiding. It was a land wherein a person saying rude things to Idris Elba would not lose his job, still less suffer incarceration. But then it was Aberfaned, engulfed in a toxic black/brown sludge which destroyed everything in its way. And its people did not give it away, it was taken from them by traitors purporting to represent their interests. As I wrote quite some time ago.
You can imagine my surprise therefore when I read the following in his most recent column. Referring to Brexit he tells us that 'the demographics of the vote tell their story. The old, those least likely to have a passport, to know anything about anywhere beyond their own narrow borders, wanting their country back'.
By jingo, the most arrogant elitist plutocrat would be hard put to better that. Incidentally did you notice how 'wanting their country back' has now become a Bad Thing. Warming to his subject he continues: 'But the country many of them wanted back was the mythical [my emphasis] England of their youth, a town in Midsomer county where Princess Diana still lives and the marriage to Charles worked out, where Miss Marples investigates cutesy murders, Mrs. Dale still writes her diary, and there's no "political correctness" to dissuade them from calling Idris Elba dirty names'.
Well Gene, apart Miss Marples that particular country was not mythical. It was real. And it was pleasant, orderly, quiet, wealthy and law-abiding. It was a land wherein a person saying rude things to Idris Elba would not lose his job, still less suffer incarceration. But then it was Aberfaned, engulfed in a toxic black/brown sludge which destroyed everything in its way. And its people did not give it away, it was taken from them by traitors purporting to represent their interests. As I wrote quite some time ago.
'that
once green and pleasant land has now been deemed the worst place in the
developed world for a child to grow up. Towns all over the country that
were a joy to visit 30 years ago are now crime-ridden, racially
segmented dumps. England has become a multicultural society, though it’s
fair to say that few English people ever wanted it to be.'
And yes, Gene, they want it back. May Providence grant them success, and your own personal Aberfan in that leafy suburb of yours.
And yes, Gene, they want it back. May Providence grant them success, and your own personal Aberfan in that leafy suburb of yours.
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