Overheard in West London pub at lunch time
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Enter stage left. A well-spoken, expensively-dressed white guy — let's call him Rupert — with an unconvincing dash of Estuary diction to disguise his public school plumminess.
I'd guess an academic of some kind from his chit-chat to the bored but polite barman about a conference he's addressing tomorrow. A similarly attired friend arrives — let's call him Ralph — and they take a seat together with their craft beers.
Rupert "I didn't turn on my transistor radio this morning. So I didn't know until my cleaner told me. I said 'you must be kidding dear' and she said with a strange smile on her face, 'No he won'..."
He then proceeds to regale Ralph — his equally distressed luncheon companion (if you still have a transistor radio I'm sure you don't eat a mere lunch) — with sundry views on the lack of higher education, general stupidity and racism of both Trump and Brexit voters.
They had not one shred of self-awareness. These entitled Guardian-reading bastards have convinced themselves that everyone who disagrees with them is sub-human. And they are prepared to say so in public where one or more of us may be listening.
They stupidly assume all around them are of the same mind and don't realise some are smiling to ourselves and silently stiffening our resolve to see them in the political oblivion their arrogance and condescension so richly deserves.
They can be defeated. How did they ever fool us? They are not even foemen worthy of our steel.
The writing on the wall is treated with contempt as it is written by the deplorables, the bigots, the xenophobes, the thick, the uneducated. Their view is enforced and strengthened by their like minded friends and their echo chambers. Will they engage and discuss with us? Like hell they will, they will shout you down, call you names, no platform you and then toddle of to luncheon with their like minded friends feeling very proud of themselves.
Posted by: Bemused | Wednesday, November 09, 2016 at 04:17 PM
The aristocracy were not noted for their intelligence but they were for their condescension and looked what happen to them. The Ruperts and Ralphs of this world are going to go the same way. They should see Brexit and now Trump as the writing on the wall as it does not bode well for Guardianistas and their progressive chums.
Posted by: Antisthenes | Wednesday, November 09, 2016 at 03:05 PM