Prejudiced towards the Posh

 

This doesn't mean I hate Peterborough Utd although as a lifelong Wrexham fan I was not over fond of Alex Ferguson's son as our Captain. There was something arrogant and self centered about him. There was something "Posh" about him and here he is in his second spell as manager of Peterborough Utd.

No I am prejudiced towards people whose accents give away the fact that they were born into privilege here in the UK. The accent is mostly upper crust English, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Iain Duncan Smith, Sara Montague aka Lady Brooke on Radio 4's the World at One. 

The voice that really grinds my gears is Justin Webb's on Radio 4's Today programme. Like Marti Webb singing "Take that look off your face" in Tell me on a Sunday I want to shout out "Take that plum out of your mouth" on a Monday morning.

      

The posh can be found at this time of year at Wimbledon and Lord's cricket ground. The bastions of Upper Class consciousness in England. I will obviously be accused  by people who support the IDF of the 'politics of envy'

Where did all the Hooray Henrys of the early 1990's go? Where are all the ancient and decrepid Sloane Rangers? Living in a stately pile outside of London or in a penthouse suite in Marylebone.

David Cameron and Boris Johnson, the bullies of the Bullingdon Club, were our most recent examples of Posh Boys gone right to the top. Walking through the underground tunnel from Eton to Westminster via Windsor Castle.

Don't judge a person  by their accent? I disagree. Richard Tice, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Isabel Oakeshott should all be in the Tower of London for the way that they speak. All Public School educated with degrees in condescension. Some of these poshos get so off on condescension that their spaffing it up the wall like Bozo the clown on a bad/good day.  

Theresa May had a posh voice, Liz Truss didn't but she tried. As an old Wykehamist Rishi Sunak toned down the posh boy voice but my god head girl Kemi Badenoch is giving it her damndest at Prime Minister's Question Time.

I always knew she was going to get the Leadership purely by the way that she spoke. Have a go hero on the London Underground Robert Jenrick didn't stand a chance against the cut glass of Badenoch but he too is getting posher in voice "Did you pay for your ticket?" "Have you paid?"

In UK PLC we are taking part in "My Fair Lady" on a loop. Those not old enough to be familiar with the musical film based on the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw only have to put the following into ChatGPT or Google AI 

"Is My Fair Lady about Class Consciousness?" 

The posh boys and girls will come around again, if not in the guise of the Tories, they will come in the disguise of Reform UK pretending to be of the working people while squirreling their parliamentary gotten gains into Dubai or an off shore tax haven. 

The posh are taught to be devious. They are taught to play on their haughtiness and their accent. "It will stun the lesser classes" they are told and we the inferior people of the UK put up with them as if they were some harmless, circus freak show rather than the sinister British establishment that they are.

They will protect their money and wealth at your expense and they will do it in accents like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson and we will continue to do nothing because you cannot be prejudiced towards the posh. Well I am!