BBC2 - The White Season

[Officer Dibble]

The BBC, in their wisdom, have decided to broadcast a short season of films on BBC2 about a sorely disenfranchised and disregarded ethnic group. Nothing new there you might say - but hold on. It turns out that the group in question is, in this instance, the white working classes!






So, have working folk been sidelined as metropolitan, metrosexual, elitist luvies have taken over the political party that was formed to defend their interests? Do modern middleclass luvies have wholly different aims and aspirations to those of Kier Hardie? Is the middleclass NuLabour politician more concerned with identity politics and the interests of 'minorities' than the interests of the indigenous working class (who pay most of the taxes)? Do the working classes embarrass contemporary NuLabour politicians? Are middleclass liberals and luvies embarrassed by the fact that their metrosexual aspirations of equality for the people below them are at odds with the aspirations of many of the people they still rely on for electoral support?

Here are a few web quotes from BBC viewers on this topic



?Coming from Essex, I only realised I was "working class" when I went to Uni. Yet I was amazed at how despised my ethnic group was by all the others. The true middle classes I met all had lovely feelings towards anyone of any other grouping - their own (the beautiful people), of course, but also black, Asian, Irish, eskimo, you name it. But the (English) white working classes were stereo-typed as brutish, coarse, ill-educated bigots. The irony of their prejudice escaped them - and still does.?

?I am a white, straight, married man. I have absolutely no say in anything in this country. I am the bad guy. Apparently I am the sexist, racist opressor responsible for the slave trade, poor womens rights and un-equal pay and if I get divorced I would bet good money on my wife getting favourable treatment in court. Not only voiceless but powerless and discriminated against from all sides!?

"This is proberly the worst time in history and the worst place in the civilised world to be a white heterosexual working class male.

We are ruled by a liberal metropolitan dictatorship that don't care for ordinary people. I bet the majority of people in this country aren't PC.

There are way too many pressure groups, sticking up for gay, asian, disabled, neets . None for ordinary working people. the result is that policies / beaurocrats seem keener to ensure things are inclusive for minorities , rather than improving things for everyone.?


?The Labour Party was founded by the White working class to be it voice. New Labour finds abhorant all that the white working class stands for so they have imported their own voters because that is exactly what mass immigration has been about. ?




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[Peter]

Pretty much agree with those quotes

[Sam Slater]

It's about time.

I whole series devoted to people like me! It's like I finally have a voice............kinda. Wait while I tell the family. Maybe we'll all have a family get-together, share a few drinks, sausage rolls and gather round the tv as one. They might even have something nice to say about us.

But look who's the first to make such a series. Those 'middle class, leftist luvvies' at the BBC! Who'd have thought it?

[colonel]

Didn't you just know Dibbs would write a thread like this?

Honestly- the first thing that ran through my head when I heard about the White season was 'Dibbs will start a thread about this on BGAFD'. Honest.

[Officer Dibble]

Glad to demonstrate my reliability, colonel. You know, for me, one of the great things about turning to Rod Liddle's column in The Sunday Times of a weekend is that I know just what to expect. I know am going to be entertained be him ripping into chavs, pikeys, Muslim fundamentalists and their politically correct, middleclass luvie, apologists. It's a comfort that there are things in life one can rely on.





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[colonel]

Rod Liddle appears to be deconstructing himself. Wasn't he the great radical editor of 'Today'- a bit of a liberal, some might say. And yet now, he appears to be denouncing the liberal castles that he built?

I really don't have a view on him at all. Do we have to have a view on him?

[Officer Dibble]

"Wasn't he the great radical editor of 'Today'- a bit of a liberal, some might say."

Yes, and some might even go a far as to say he was originally a bit of a commie ? he once wrote for the Guardian and later on was indeed the editor of the BBC's politically correct ?Today? program. But he?s just one journalist in an established tradition of pretentious young revolutionaries (like Peter Hitchens, Gary Bushell, Melanie Phillips, etc) who eventually grow up, see the world as it really is, and then do a political about face.






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[Ace]

Am certainly looking forward to the Working Mens Clubs episode tonight. You rarely see any these days

[ATS]

Ace wrote:

> Am certainly looking forward to the Working Mens Clubs episode
> tonight. You rarely see any these days
>
>

Still some good cheap ones my way. Quid for bitter, ?1.10 lager with
?1.40 for premium lager and guinness at one of them

[colonel]

I'm a member of one- owned by two Asian businessmen, can I add.