tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post1253378290290727193..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: I’m sure the voters of South Thanet will enjoy being patronised by a posh left-winger like Al MurrayScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-45594528448241021932015-01-18T13:22:22.948+00:002015-01-18T13:22:22.948+00:00Smug, sneering, superior and left wing, the essent...Smug, sneering, superior and left wing, the essential qualities for any "comedian" wishing to appear on the BBC. A couple of months ago, stuck in traffic, I listened to half an hour of the dreadfully unfunny Marcus Brigstocke. The audience (they can't all be family members, surely?) whooped in delight as this self regarding, pompous ass lectured us on the evils of UKIP, how immigration had benefitted Britain and anyone who disagreed was a revolting, racist ignoramus. It slowly dawned on me that I was paying this talentless turd to insult me!<br /><br /> When it comes to mass immigration I will always listen to the old lady who lives in a bedsit in Brixton and the elderly chap who resides in a tower block in Tower Hamlets.<br /> As for Marcus and his privileged ilk he (and they) can go and fxxx themselves. <br />Second thoughts, he might enjoy that...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00839005575027842615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-34982812899554592282015-01-18T13:19:12.614+00:002015-01-18T13:19:12.614+00:00The Johnny Speight gambit, as we might call it, wa...The Johnny Speight gambit, as we might call it, was always a risky one. For all that Speight was satirising the views of English working class Tories with his Alf Garnett, the joke was really on him. Lefty audiences may have nodded smugly, but hoi polloi regraded Alf as a prophet.<br /><br />The same is true of Murray. I have had the misfortune of sitting in an audience guffawing at Murray's act. I'm sure he went home (his pockets stuffed with cash) convinced that he had spread the good word, but I happen to know that a fair proportion of that audience (it was a private do) held views which made the Pub Landlord sound like a bit of a wishy-washy liberal.<br /><br />Living in his privileged meejah goldfish bowl, I'm sure Murray thinks he will upset Farage's campaign but I suspect he is in for a bit of a surprise when he comes up against that very proletariat he believes he champions.GCoopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-11959312337279076302015-01-18T01:18:57.333+00:002015-01-18T01:18:57.333+00:00Obviously the Murrays are a family in decline as w... Obviously the Murrays are a family in decline as we may observe by comparing Al with his kinsman "wee Iain" (erstwhile Duke of Atholl), former Tory peer and member of the anti - immigration Monday Club :<br /><br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Murray,_10th_Duke_of_Atholl<br /><br /> Leftists usually have two motivations , viz., envy or guilt, so I suppose the latter would fit the bill for Al Murray.Colin G Finlaynoreply@blogger.com