‘The British political class has offered to the world an astounding spectacle of mendacious, intellectually limited hustlers.’ This is a direct quote from a recent New York Times, a newspaper that is known for being anti-heterosexual white male, anti-Christian, and now anti-British ruling class. Mind you, normally when someone attacks the British I smile. And more often than not I mumble that no one hits the Brits harder than themselves. This time, however, let’s take a second look as to why the venom.
Under the headline ‘The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class’, some clown I’ve never heard of takes up half a broadsheet page denouncing Britain’s past in general and that of the ruling class in particular. (The poor man mixes up past and present ruling classes, but never mind.) Why now? Search me, but a little bird tells me that Brexit has something to do with it. The real rulers of today, Davos types and members of the international deep state, or IDS, are never mentioned. The article reads as though it were written by someone who was insulted by some upper-class twit long ago and has never got over the insult. My, my, how many shrinks did this poor soul consult to come to such conclusions as: ‘English Brexiteers chasing imperial virility.’ When I called my friend Robin Birley and asked him why he was chasing imperial virility (Robs is the quintessential English gent and very patriotic), he emitted his unique loud ululation and asked me what moron had come up with that one.
And it gets better. The reason people voted the way they did back in 2016 can be traced, and the Times writer cites E.M. Forster, ‘to its privately educated men, callow beneficiaries of the country’s elitist public school system’.
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