Looking back on our posts here in praise of Mark Steel - my favourite far-left Radio 4 comedian - I revisited on old anonymous quote from 2017 which managed to sum up beautifully how I felt after falling in love with his wonderfully warm and funny Mark Steel's in Town on Radio 4):
I was talking to a friend today about Mark Steel. We can all see he is a complete lefty (and some of his leftiness I don't have a problem with) but (a) he still has a human sense of humour about him (b) he isn't vindictive and (c) he engages with a wide audience.
And then, post-election, he goes and tweets something like this (with apologies in advance for the language):
Let me be gracious. All the people celebrating now are the most entitled, embittered, sneering nasty selfish racist foul f**kwits. I’d still rather be with the decent people, however gutted they are, than be you for a second.
That might suggest that his feelings towards parts of many of his Mark Steel's in Town audiences aren't quite as warm and free from vindictiveness as might have been supposed.
Oh, well, I'm sure this display of bitter intolerance won't stop the BBC commissioning further series of Mark Steel's in Town. I'm looking forward to the one from Redcar:
Thank you very much for that, Redcar. Welcome to Mark Steel's in Town. Today I'm in Redcar, which means we're at the coast in North Yorkshire, which as places go is too windy. Places aren't meant to be this windy. Or racist. The name 'Redcar' comes from the Old Scandanavian word 'kjarr' meaning 'racist'. Singer David Coverdale, lead singer with Deep Purple and Whitesnake lived in Redcar as a youth and worked in the Gentry clothes shop on Coatham Road. I went in there the other day and told them they are all racists. Of course, Redcar is now Deep Blue, because entitled, embittered, sneering, nasty, selfish, racist, foul f**kwits like you voted Tory. Thank you very much for coming along. Thank you.
The comments beneath his tweet could be going better. Here's a sample:
- I see you’re taking it well.
- Someone is an angry elf.
- Love not hate membership lapsed?
- Perhaps if you hadn’t backed a nasty sneering racist you’d be in a position to lecture.
- Bless. How’d you carry that chip on your shoulder? It’s bloody massive!
- Mark, try sudocrem.
Lol! He's definitely off my Christmas card list.
ReplyDeleteI guess part of the problem for Far Left Marxists is that they believe there is a single world view embodied in Marxist ideology and that all other world views are examples of "false consciousness". They simply can't accept there may be many ways to live (one of the reasons why they don't "get" Islam - they don't realise it is a perfectly self-sufficient world view in its own right).
So a defeat on this scale simply cannot stand with their world view - it has to be interpreted as an effect of false consciousness. So, in this case it has to be motivated by racist xenophobia.
If the British electorate were really such a dreadfully racist and xenophobic bunch you would expect there to be parties with substantial support based on that sort of politics, as there are on mainland Europe, but there aren't.
Or maybe he's just a tw@t!
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