I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! Well, one doesn't expect to hear good sense delivered from the mouth of a 'luvvie', er, unless someone else wrote the words, but the splendid Laurence Fox has done just that - and impromptu words at that! First of all, he ripped into the 'woke-lot' on BBC Question Time, telling a particularly dim woman in the audience that her criticism of him as a 'privileged white man' was in itself a racist comment - an irony that would have sailed miles over her head!
And last night, according to The Mail, he ripped into Sam Mendes, the director of the film "1917" for introducing a Sikh soldier into the story line as though he was a member of a British regiment. The Sikhs did indeed fight for Britain in WWI and they fought ferociously and bravely but they did so in their own formations and were never individual members of any British regiment. I suspect that not many Sikhs will enjoy being patronised by the 'arty-farty woke brigade'!
The tide might be turning! The best thing about his QT performance was how it revealed the weakness of the standard woke position. Baroness Chakrabarti had a face like a slapped arse, but no cogent response.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 11:07
Fox has been doing a bang up job playing Lord Palmerston so far in the "Victoria" series. He seems perfect for the part. This new anti-woke part suits him as well. Normal people have had enough of "woke" nonsense.
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 11:14
Guess Fox won’t be back on QT any time soon.
Posted by: Wigner’s Friend | Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 12:47
Three "W"s in a row? David, that must be a sign?
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 12:52
It means that he is at the bottom of the barrel, sorry alphabet, for his comments :)
Posted by: Britjute | Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 15:59
No. Fox for President! We should steal him from you along with Ricky "Big Balls" Gervais. We will swap you for Meghan . . . never mind . . .
Posted by: Diplomad | Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 18:09
The Pakistani Muslim rape gangs scandal is the big one that needs elevating to its rightful position at the centre of the public's mind's eye ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/tolerant-nation-time-shamed-grooming-gangs-prey-girls/
Will BoJo have the balls to out that one to the max and restore equality under the law to Blighty? To put the rule of law before cultural privilege? To prosecute the so called "public servants" who aided and abetted the mass rape of white girls in 27 towns and cities across Blighty (so far), surely the most extensive co-ordinated act of racism in living memory?
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Wednesday, 22 January 2020 at 05:00
SoD, let's hope so. Big elections should mean big corrections. People must pay dearly and the cultural attitude that allowed this must pay as well.
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 22 January 2020 at 12:06
You know as well as I do SoD. Nothing much will happen.
Posted by: Backofanenvelope | Wednesday, 22 January 2020 at 13:03
SoD,
Noticed a newsreader on one of our sites t'other day:
http://knuckledraggin.com/2020/01/the-monstrous-failure-of-political-correctness/
While I figure what BOE is sayin' likelier there's just the slimmest your (well I probably ought not say your) most recent vote might make the difference.
Posted by: JK | Wednesday, 22 January 2020 at 17:44