The latest Labour email propaganda missive
Just hit the inbox. From Jo Brand (remember her?). It begins thusly:
"Hello,Would this be an email from the same Labour party whose own leader went to the Scottish public school Fettes? The same Labour party whose leader's old housemaster is David Cameron's old headmaster?
I'm Jo, a Labour supporter and you may have seen me on telly. Have you noticed the big news this week?
David Cameron (Dave to his friends), an old Etonian distantly related to the Queen, has been elected leader of the Conservative Party."
And would this be the same Jo Brand who went to the (now closed) fee-paying girls' school Beresford House in Sussex?
And, more importantly, would where any of these people went to school actually matter for shit?
Or would this merely be yet another attempt to use the tired tactic of stirring up class antagonisms and resentments in a desperate, hypocritical attempt to hang on to power?
6 Comments:
Woo! My headmaster was David Cameron's headmaster and Blair's housemaster... er... beat that!
DK
Anyone else reckon he's still bitter about Howard's "this grammar school boy" comment?
Or would this merely be yet another attempt to use the tired tactic of stirring up class antagonisms and resentments
Not as such - New Labour don't do class any more than they do God. This is straightforward populism - an appeal to ordinary decent British people, who are united by (a) not being old Etonians (b) being ordinary and decent and (c) vote Labour! The last person who tried this approach was Kilroy, although he gave us full-strength populism rather than a homeopathic dilution (very New Labour...).
Jo Brand can fuck right off...
DK
It's a good thing I don't vote Labour.
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