Friday was Brexit day. The day that the biggest act of democracy within the historical past of this nation was lastly enacted. The day when the ne
Friday was Brexit day. The day that the biggest act of democracy within the historical past of this nation was lastly enacted. The day when the needs of 17.4m individuals lastly turned a actuality. And the way did the BBC, the nationwide broadcaster, mark this extraordinary democratic day? With a sneer, after all. A smug, aloof, bitter sneer on the whole nation.
Not solely did BBC reporters huff and moan on the mass pro-Brexit gathering in Parliament Sq., coming off like anthropologists who had occurred upon some weird, unique tribe. It additionally selected that day to push out anti-Brexit nonsense by way of its youngsters’ wing, CBBC. Sure, even kids should now be subjected to the media elite’s Brexitphobic claptrap.
On iPlayer and Twitter, Auntie pumped out previous Horrible Histories clips to remind those who Britain is definitely a little bit of a naff nation. It was all anchored by Nish Kumar, a comic, allegedly. He’s essentially the most Radio four comic ever. Hates Brexit? Test. Bashes Boris? Test. Thinks everyone seems to be racist? Test. Has bread rolls thrown at him each time he performs to individuals who didn’t go to Oxbridge? Test, test, test.
“British issues… turns on the market’s hardly any.”@MrNishKumar and @HHTV_ are spilling the tea on British stuff in #HorribleHistories #Brexit particular ☕️ Streaming now on @BBCiPlayer 👉 https://t.co/2S40YIQuTG @RealMatBaynton pic.twitter.com/jn1EvbYZLX
— CBBC (@cbbc) January 31, 2020
Kumar launched one of many vids by saying, ‘Britain is placing out by itself and leaving Europe. Goooo Britain.’ The ‘Goooo Britain’ bit was after all stated with skilled bourgeois sarcasm to point that Kumar, like actually each different individual within the groupthink milieu he mixes in, doesn’t really assume Britain can do something by itself, ineffective fools that we’re.
We have been then handled to a 2009 Horrible Historical past skit during which a scowling Queen Victoria mistakenly thinks tea, sugar and cotton are British innovations, solely to be disabused of this idiocy by her butler. He informs Her Majesty that this stuff really come from India and the Caribbean and are sometimes produced for us by slaves. The message, because the CBBC Twitter account made clear, was as follows:
‘British issues… turns on the market’s hardly any.’
What was the BBC pondering, pumping out anti-British propaganda to youngsters — and, by way of Twitter, to adults — on Brexit day? This cynical stunt was as aware because it was crass. It was expressly aimed toward bursting the Brexit bubble, dampening the Brexit day celebrations, and informing the ignorant throng that Britain has at all times been a foreign-influenced nation. A lot in order that there are ‘hardly any’ British issues in any respect.
That is clearly a lie. You don’t should be a flag-waving, royalist crockery-collecting super-Brit to recognise that there are numerous, many British issues and that this nation has carried out so many issues for its individuals to be pleased with. From Magna Carta to Newtonian physics, from the Industrial Revolution to all that literature that has stirred souls throughout the globe for hundreds of years, Britain is just a little island that punches terribly above its weight.
However the vogue immediately, particularly among the many morally emaciated liberal elites, is to obsess over the darker episodes in British historical past. It is a racist, colonialist, rampaging nation whose sins nonetheless echo throughout the earth, they endlessly bleat.
Whilst somebody whose household hail from the west of Eire, and whose very latest forefathers died in a famine Britain did little to alleviate, and whose household hometown was plundered and burnt by British forces lower than 100 years in the past, and whose mother and father had a little bit of a tough time after they migrated to Britain within the early 1970s, I do know that that is juvenile, one-sided, anti-British drivel. Britain is a bloody wonderful nation.
And but, Britain-bashing is all the trend among the many chattering lessons. No ceremonial dinner is full now with no little bit of Britain-mockery. Affecting disgrace about Britain’s historical past is how the luxury and the well-educated distinguish themselves from the lots, whose flag-waving and patriotism they discover repulsive.
Witness posho George Monbiot getting in on the Nish Kumar act by reminding the plebs that even their roast dinner isn’t British:
‘For these considering a patriotic Brexit Sunday roast, please bear in mind: Your roast beef was domesticated in Mesopotamia. Your potatoes originated in South America. And your Brussels sprouts, er, nicely…’
There may be nothing radical and even fascinating concerning the anti-British posturing of well-off Guardianistas or comics who reside off the general public purse courtesy of the BBC. It’s simply sneering. Sneering at Brexit, sneering at historical past, and sneering on the little individuals who dare to take satisfaction of their nation. These bourgeois pessimists are getting actually boring.