Excellent stuff from Dan. I have lots of younger friends in his parlous situation re. paid work; but Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on July 14, 2019, 9:14 pm, in reply to "Great support for Jennie Formby from insider Dan O’Connell"
still steadfast, rock-solid socialists. Where it comes from innit? Not so much from from the fast-track-to-privileged-life of the Oxbridgies... PS: I went to uni - and to drama school - both on the public purse (heartfelt thanks to all my fellow Brits who staked me for that and many other vital advantages besides, when I was young, and who are still paying for my pension, my medical needs and so on, right now) but I never quit belonging to the working class - and the peasantry before them - from which all members of both my clans, paternal and maternal all came. Getting bourgeois privileges doesn't have to involve reneging against your roots; or shitting all over the decent genuine socialists in the Labour party... Who gives a shit if a bloke doesn't know his times table? It's the decency of the soul that matters. Plenty of those entirely-decent semi-literates amongst my friends and good neighbours.
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