tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694400362120888303.post6723012727459155220..comments2024-02-22T19:52:27.939+00:00Comments on The bad old days will end: Image from Islington.rayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08557920166206674182noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694400362120888303.post-47457023518802924722014-11-24T18:27:43.655+00:002014-11-24T18:27:43.655+00:00Lady Nugee really is a snob, says Guido.
http://o...Lady Nugee really is a snob, says Guido.<br /><br />http://order-order.com/2014/11/24/lady-nugees-walled-garden/Dr Llareggubnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694400362120888303.post-8499412296698488762014-11-24T09:46:24.407+00:002014-11-24T09:46:24.407+00:00Snobbery within the left and Labour goes deep and ...Snobbery within the left and Labour goes deep and a long way back. See the Decline and fall of the Labour Party by John Scanlon, where the author describes newly elected Northern Labour MPs off to join Ramsey MacDonald's Government. When we return, they announced to their supporters seeing them off on the train to London, this railway will be yours. Some time later they signed their wives up for elocution lessons as they wanted to eradicate their Northern Working class accents. <br /><br />Snobbery of the left includes sneers at Sun and Daily Mail readers, which might not be so bad except when accusations of reading the Mail and Sun replace argument.<br /><br />Among friends in my age group are a number of Labour Party/Trade Union activists. They invited me to a dinner party. I don't know much about dinner party etiquette but was advised to take a bottle of wine. I gave it to the host who carefully read the label and burst out laughing, and then shared the joke with other guests. Apparently it was the wrong sort of wine, although I still don't know what was wrong with it. During dinner we shared tales of heroic deeds during the miner's strike, of combat with Tories, but the subject kept returning to my wine and I confess to joining in the the laughter. God knows why. <br /><br />My patron in the House of Lords is an elderly Tory Lord who eats Bangers and Mash when we dine there, whist I eat Burger and Chips washed down with a Diet Coke. Funny old world.Dr Llareggubnoreply@blogger.com