Just hit the inbox. From Jo Brand (remember her?). It begins thusly:<\/p>\n
“Hello,<\/p>\n
I’m Jo, a Labour supporter and you may have seen me on telly. Have you noticed the big news this week?<\/p>\n
David Cameron (Dave to his friends), an old Etonian distantly related to the Queen, has been elected leader of the Conservative Party.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Would this be an email from the same Labour party whose own leader went to the Scottish public school Fettes<\/a>? The same Labour party whose leader’s old housemaster is David Cameron’s old headmaster<\/a>?<\/p>\n
And would this be the same Jo Brand who went to the (now closed) fee-paying girls’ school Beresford House in Sussex?<\/p>\n
And, more importantly, would where any of these people went to school actually matter for shit?<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just hit the inbox. From Jo Brand (remember her?). It begins thusly: “Hello, 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), … Continue reading