Monday, March 27, 2006

More whining liberals...

You see, this is where your whining liberalism gets you. Thatcher-worship. Ok, so this is a few days old, and should have been written at the end of last week. But I've been busy. And no one reads this shit anymore, anyway. So who's complaining?
Nonetheless, I digress. Last week, a programme entitled "Tory, Tory, Tory" was aired. Nowt wrong with that, you may think. Someone's bound to watch it. I didn't, but Guardian columnist Rupert Smith did, and had this to say: " Watching Tory! Tory! Tory!, I found myself in a situation that I could never have imagined in my 20s, when the action was unfolding - I was largely in agreement with Thatcher and her robust solutions to the problems of the day." Eh? Why? Are you some sort of idiot? Extreme right-wing nutter? Inordinately rich crook? But, no, let young Rupe continue: "So we were given a clear overview of privatisation, share-culture and right-to-buy, all of them dirty words at the time but now a familiar part of the landscape". Ah, I see. So certain aspects of Thatcher's self-serving agenda are adopted by Blair's Boys. That means, because they're "part of the landscape" they're OK? Let's forget how disastrous privatisation has proven itself to be on this country's infrastructure (caught a train, recently, Rupe? No, thought not...), or on how unscrupulous banks pushed people into taking out mortgages they couldn't afford and repossessed the houses they'd been living in all their lives. It's all "part of the landscape", so it must be OK.
But he continues, descending from what is merely complacent idiocy into mind-blowing snobbery and offensiveness, fuelled entirely be stupidity and ignorance: "I can't be the only person who has finally admitted after all these years of pretending otherwise that Arthur Scargill was a ghastly little man who needed to be trodden on". Ah, I see. So forget how Scargill's prognosis was entirely accurate and everything he predicted turned out to be true. Let's concentrate instead on the fact that he was a "ghastly little man" - no doubt because of his offensive northern accent, and the fact that he didn't go to the right school. Probably would be blackballed by the Garrick, too. Crimes far greater than Thatcher's out-and-out assault on the very fabric of British society, and well worth destroying the coal industry for.
Liberals, eh? Who needs 'em?

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