One of the things the über woke “Surrey Set” (these are rich upper middle class university educated retired professionals who have sold their multi-million £ houses in Surrey [and elsewhere in the Home Counties] and have “downsized” to the Land’s End ward in Cornwall) in the neighbouring village really dislike about me is my (in their eyes) utterly brazen and completely unapologetic attitude about their precious “hobby horses”! On the issue of so-called “white privilege” and “critical race theory”, I refuse to consider myself racially privileged. I do think that I and, more so them, are privileged as we live in a first world country and not a third world country. But: I absolutely refuse to accept or acknowledge any guilt whatsoever for the West African slave trade and I am not going to give money to any black person voluntarily as so-called “reparations”.
This of course marks me as a “far right” xenophobic racist!
Do I care?
Nope!
One of the things that sets some of them off is when they overhear a conversation I am having with one of the other ordinary people living here and they object to the sheer political incorrectness of my utterances! Included in this are my liking for old James Bond movies. These movies from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s have violence but there is a lightness of directorial touch when compared to the offerings on such as Netflix and Amazon Prime nowadays. The modern offerings are very dark and very violent and are not so much entertaining but extremely disturbing.
Of course the old James Bond movies are condemned by the Surrey Set as being sexist and misogynistic in-so-far as the attitude that Mr Bond displays towards women.
These movies do however contain moments that are not the subject of the Surrey Set’s wrath but do stay in the memory.
One such is contained in “Licence to Kill” (1989), the second and final film to star Timothy Dalton as Bond. It sees the drug lord Franz Sanchez (played by Robert Davi) subjecting CIA agent Felix Leiter (played by David Hedison, who for me will always be remembered for playing Captain Lee Crane in the TV series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”), to subjecting him to a shark attack by lowering him into the water and having the animal bite one of his legs off before raising him to safety. The object of this particularly gruesome exercise for this classic Bond villain was not to kill Leiter but to give him a strong warning not to interfere with and frustrate his criminal enterprise in future! Before lowering Leiter into the water, Sanchez assured Leiter that he Sanchez had no personal animosity towards him delivering the famous line…. “It’s nothing personal. It’s just business.”
The title of today’s blogpost is directed towards the man on the right who has lambasted Mr Sunak for not seeking to ban demonstrations in support of the Palestinians a week today.
Mr Farage’s opinion about the said march is not shared by the man on the left, Mr Gary Lineker OBE who opines differently: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gary-lineker-palestinian-protesters-armistice-day-b2441512.html
I would suggest to Nigel that Mr Sunak is hoping that any let us say, “excess of zeal” on the part of the pro Palestinian demonstrators will add to the woes and difficulties currently being experienced by the Unfortunate Sir Keir Starmer and the front bench of the parliamentary Labour Party!
Mr Sunak knows that he and his party are way behind in the opinion polls and that the prospects for a continuation of the Tory government after the next general election do not look good. Mr Sunak is hoping that present events will take the shine of Labour’s gingerbread and will cause division, ructions and even splits in Labour’s ranks.