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    Re: Paul Foot Award 2020 Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on September 20, 2020, 3:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Paul Foot Award 2020"

    "Remember how the Tory gutter press attacked Michael Foot for the coat he wore to the Cenotaph?"

    Oh yes: the so-called "Donkey Jacket"

    “'An old man with a green donkey-jacket, flapping trousers and casual shoes stood looking vaguely about him, like a bored tourist at bus-stop…and when his turn came, he laid his wreath of poppies with all the reverent dignity of a tramp bending down to inspect a cigarette end. This was the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition paying his party’s tribute to the nation’s dead.”

    - went Charles Moore's assassination in the Torygraph.


    Educated me on a few points:

    1. The clothes of Working class people are an insult to working class dead: they apparently demand sartorial elegance.

    2. The Telegraph is the official spokesman for the working class Dead.

    Actually what I really learned was this:

    There are no depths the shameless media will not stoop to for political gain and the British public are suckers for pseudo atavistic sentiment.

    Anyone for more BBC Spitfire worship this week?





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