5 Feet of Fury

RE: Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy — a timely blast from the past

A friend sends in this keeper from Julie Burchill circa 2005 :

“From the word go, the white working class have been portrayed as the fat white fly in the joyous rainbow ointment of cultural diversity, SPOILING EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, set up against noble, chaste, hard-working immigrants as the undeserving or deserving poor.

“Of course, it is all very well to spend your days lecturing others to ‘celebrate diversity’ when you go home each night to Hampstead….”