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LIBBY PURVES It wasn’t the vote to Leave that shocked, it was the squawk of reaction by my own tribe
Lefties' carry-on is beyond parody
BY LIBBY PURVES, WRITER AND RADIO 4 PRESENTER
It has been a particularly grim couple of days for a soft-left newsaholic like me with a tenderness for the arts world.
To quote one performing artist’s tweet: “Ashamed. Terrified. Shocked. Horrified”.
Dramatists, novelists, comedians and songwriters are rarely celebrated for reflecting the concerns of the hidden millions rather than mocking. Once we had George Orwell and JB Priestley: now, it is almost comic to watch the affluent metropolitan left being cross with the zero-hours strugglers of Sunderland for disrespecting the instructions of a Tory PM and big business.
It wasn’t the vote to Leave that shocked, it was the squawk of reaction by my own tribe
Lefties' carry-on is beyond parody
BY LIBBY PURVES, WRITER AND RADIO 4 PRESENTER
It has been a particularly grim couple of days for a soft-left newsaholic like me with a tenderness for the arts world.
To quote one performing artist’s tweet: “Ashamed. Terrified. Shocked. Horrified”.
Dramatists, novelists, comedians and songwriters are rarely celebrated for reflecting the concerns of the hidden millions rather than mocking. Once we had George Orwell and JB Priestley: now, it is almost comic to watch the affluent metropolitan left being cross with the zero-hours strugglers of Sunderland for disrespecting the instructions of a Tory PM and big business.
It wasn’t the vote to Leave that shocked, it was the squawk of reaction by my own tribe