Oh, bloody hell, by coincidence, they're reshowing the early 80's tv series of Brideshead Revisited today (preparing us - along with the upcoming film remake - for a right-wing government again?). They've just had the scene where the young aristo Sebastian, in full Bullingdon Club regalia, has vomited through middle-class Charles' window, and they have fallen in love. This is symbolised by the following morning's history faculty lecture - the end of the Puritan Republic and the Restoration of Charles II 1660 (which is of course wonderful), and the first meal with Sebastian and his aristocratic, Old Etonian, Christ Church College, Bullingdon Club friends - I hadn't noticed before - it's Lobster Thermidor! Hmm, what are they trying to spell out there? The scriptwriter, John Mortimer, and the two leads, Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, are these days all bigwigs in the Countryside Alliance, the massively rich and influential anti-Labour pro-bloodsports pressure group that kept the Tory flame alive during the Blair years. This is the sort of crap we swallow in Britain - and we don't even notice...!
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Date: 2008-09-27 03:00 pm (UTC)The scriptwriter, John Mortimer, and the two leads, Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, are these days all bigwigs in the Countryside Alliance, the massively rich and influential anti-Labour pro-bloodsports pressure group that kept the Tory flame alive during the Blair years. This is the sort of crap we swallow in Britain - and we don't even notice...!