"White privilege. That cheeky grin is the innate knowledge he's royal, rich, advantaged and will never know ANY difficulties or hardships in life... Let's find photos of 3yo Syrian refugee children and see if they look alike, eh?"When others attacked her silly little outburst, Ms Gibbins responded with:
"...I do disagree with the system that creates privilege of any sort. And I have a dedication to calling that out for what it is...I'm sound in my socialist, atheist and republican opinions. I don't believe the Royal family have any place in a modern democracy, least of all when they live on public money. That's privilege and it needs to end."
Obviously I totally disagree with Ms. Gibbins' dreary, joyless opinions, but I'm perfectly happy for her to keep on espousing them wherever and whenever she wants to. After all, a whopping 18% of the British public agree that the Royal Family should be abolished - which, given current trends, is the percentage of the vote that the republican Corbyn-led Labour Party will end up attracting at the next general election. Britain is a pluralistic country which believes in free speech, as long as violence isn't being directly advocated (at least, it used to, until "hate crime" became a thing), and the country just wouldn't be the same without regular proof of the bitter, hate-filled, miserabilist hard left's ingrained malignity and its infinite contempt for those things which the vast majority of Britons hold dear. (Some very sensible, articulate republicans hold anti-monarchy views, of course, but this woman's intemperate tone suggests her opinions are the result of spitting rage rather than cool reflection.)
The problem I have with Angela Gibbins venting her spleen online is that I - and everyone else who pays tax in Britain - is funding her salary (reputed to be a rather lavish-sounding £80,000 a year). That would just about be acceptable if her job was to oversee the implementation of the government's waterways-dredging policy or to check that hygiene procedures were being followed in NHS hospitals - but Ms Gibbins works for the British Council, which, according to its own website, "...was founded to create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and the wider world. We call this work cultural relations. We work in more than 100 countries, connecting millions of people with the United Kingdom through programmes and services in the English language, the arts, education and society."
If the work of the British Council is "cultural relations" and its aim is to connect "millions of people with the United Kingdom", shouldn't its employees demonstrate a deep-seated regard for Britain's political system, its traditions, and its culture, and shouldn't their views be (very) roughly in sync with those held by the overwhelming majority of Britons? Why should we pay for public servants to go out and "bat for Britain" who don't believe in its wonderfully stabilising constitutional monarchy? Here's Ms Gibbins defending herself:
"...I do disagree with the system that creates privilege of any sort. And I have a dedication to calling that out for what it is. I'm sound in my socialist, atheist and republican opinions. I don't believe the Royal family have any place in a modern democracy, least of all when they live on public money. That's privilege and it needs to end."The problem is, dear, that Britain does believe that the Royal family has a place in a modern democracy. In fact, Britain absolutely bloody adores its Royal family. So why are you, of all people, being paid to represent British values abroad, given you don't share them? By all means, go out into the world and spread your "socialist, atheist and republican opinions" till you're blue in the face - knock yourself out! But not in the name of the country, and not at the taxpayer's expense. That's one "privilege" that really does "need to end".
Why do Britain's publicly-funded bodies seem to be infested by the likes of Ms Gibbins? The Marxist student activist Rudi Dutschke coined the term "the Long March through the institutions" to describe the infiltration and subversion of publicly-funded organisations by radical leftists intent on creating the conditions for revolution. It's been going on in this country since the '30s, but the process evidently accelerated during the '60s, and now the bastards are everywhere - and we're paying for them. It would be nice to imagine that Brexit and a Tory government for the foreseeable future might lead to a purge of these poisonous, ennervating dementors from positions of influence in the public sector - but the usual hysterical shrieks of "Macarthyism!" would immediately halt any attempt to cleanse the Augean stables of cultural Marxist crud - which is a shame, because they're getting pretty damned stinky.
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