Annoying All The Right People

I am pleased to see (even if I couldn’t possibly publish the comments themselves) that I have annoyed the people whom any sensible person lives to annoy. They think that because they did not attend major public schools, they are somehow demotic figures, an insight, as much as anything else, into just how little contact with ordinary people they have ever had.

Point out that they have jobs deliberately reserved for the independently wealthy (and, I might add, almost never advertised or interviewed for), and they go ballistic. They have certainly been doing so with me today. But even their rage at that is as nothing compared to my specific proposals for breaking their monopoly of access to political advancement. Or, rather, to the mere existence of any such proposal at all.

I also appear to be rather less than flavour of the month with the BBC. Dear old Auntie can cope with being called pro-Labour. She is so used to that, that she has become impervious. And of course she knows that it is not strictly true.

But festoon the blogosphere with the fact that she actually supports whichever party has the poshest, most meterosexual and most Europhile Leader at the given time (currently the Tories, though with the Lib Dems not far behind), and she reacts with utter incandescence. Which is very, very, very amusing.