It is an oddity of our political and media classes, that they are so utterly Americanised as to assume that even the racism in Britain is American rather than British.
Yes, of course all this "weird" and "geek" business against Ed Miliband is anti-Semitic.
But it is specifically of New York, and of the rest of America against New York. They have to say "North London", but they don't mean it.
But it is specifically of New York, and of the rest of America against New York. They have to say "North London", but they don't mean it.
The whole thing is lost on almost everyone in Britain. But that fact is itself lost both on those engaging in it, and on those taking offence at it.
The West Wing has a lot to answer for.
ReplyDeleteIt goes beyond even that. The press pack and its approved politicians went bananas on Twitter over the Super Bowl. They are always doing things like that.
DeleteTo be fair, Ed Miliband's Americanisms are perhaps more explicable when one considers that he did used to teach at Harvard.
So much for never having had a job outside politics. They must be thinking of David Cameron, who has never exactly had a job either inside or outside politics.
Cameron is an utterly undistinguished person, the kind that used to be a sixth generation Tory backbencher for 50 years without anyone's really noticing that they were there.
Whereas Miliband is a reversion to the intellectually and academically glittering, state-educated Golden Ages of Old Labour.