Crabby never fails to sink his foot into his own mouth.
After the opera industry spending the last couple of decades trying to convince everyone it isn’t elitist, government minister calls opera elitist.
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Because the plebs just don’t get culture obviously.
I watched Raab’s cunty speech and didn’t stick around to see anything afterwards, but I would hope the comebacks to it are incredibly obvious and damning. Man just implied that working people have no business enjoying a glass of champagne or a bit of culture from time to time. The belittling attitude towards common folk couldn’t be more transparent in that bile.
I think Rayner is generally quite good in PMQs but last PMQs it felt like Rabb had one over on her, not that I like the theatrics of PMQs, but his comments like champagne socialism did seem to put her somewhat off base. Shitty politics but it felt Rabb won the panto for *his type* of voters.
I’ll take Wagner and Verdi over Beyoncé any day frankly
Which is funny, as Raab looks like a leisure centre somewhere has lost their deputy manager.
the entire culture around opera is “see and be seen with other poshos”, and play dolly tea-party, with daft convoluted social rules. using other posho tools as dolls, while they do the same in return.
Raab reminds me of someone and I can never figure out who. He has been compared to Patrick Bateman but it’s not that.
Live by the sword, die by the sword, basically.
Snobbery, pure and simple.
Will Rabb criticise football fans as well because many of the terrace songs are sung to tunes from opera, Jordan Henderson’s dity from Liverpool fans at present for example.
Raab was just feeling sore that a working class woman from up north is smarter than him, enjoys culture and regularly rinses him and his posho chums in parliament. His ilk believe she should be cleaning bogs, popping out sprogs or down spoons.
This story reminded me of visiting the V&A a few years ago, where they had a special exhibition on the history of opera. One thing I wasn’t aware of was how in its early days in Britain, it was seen as a more crass art form for the masses – they even had a framed article from The Spectator warning how the spread of opera in Britain represented an infiltration of a tasteless “European” art from that would corrupt the refined tastes of the British people, and how it needed to be resisted.
At least when it comes to The Spectator, it’s nice to see that nothing’s really changed.
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Crabby never fails to sink his foot into his own mouth.
After the opera industry spending the last couple of decades trying to convince everyone it isn’t elitist, government minister calls opera elitist.
[deleted]
Because the plebs just don’t get culture obviously.
I watched Raab’s cunty speech and didn’t stick around to see anything afterwards, but I would hope the comebacks to it are incredibly obvious and damning. Man just implied that working people have no business enjoying a glass of champagne or a bit of culture from time to time. The belittling attitude towards common folk couldn’t be more transparent in that bile.
I think Rayner is generally quite good in PMQs but last PMQs it felt like Rabb had one over on her, not that I like the theatrics of PMQs, but his comments like champagne socialism did seem to put her somewhat off base. Shitty politics but it felt Rabb won the panto for *his type* of voters.
I’ll take Wagner and Verdi over Beyoncé any day frankly
Which is funny, as Raab looks like a leisure centre somewhere has lost their deputy manager.
the entire culture around opera is “see and be seen with other poshos”, and play dolly tea-party, with daft convoluted social rules. using other posho tools as dolls, while they do the same in return.
Raab reminds me of someone and I can never figure out who. He has been compared to Patrick Bateman but it’s not that.
Live by the sword, die by the sword, basically.
Snobbery, pure and simple.
Will Rabb criticise football fans as well because many of the terrace songs are sung to tunes from opera, Jordan Henderson’s dity from Liverpool fans at present for example.
Raab was just feeling sore that a working class woman from up north is smarter than him, enjoys culture and regularly rinses him and his posho chums in parliament. His ilk believe she should be cleaning bogs, popping out sprogs or down spoons.
This story reminded me of visiting the V&A a few years ago, where they had a special exhibition on the history of opera. One thing I wasn’t aware of was how in its early days in Britain, it was seen as a more crass art form for the masses – they even had a framed article from The Spectator warning how the spread of opera in Britain represented an infiltration of a tasteless “European” art from that would corrupt the refined tastes of the British people, and how it needed to be resisted.
At least when it comes to The Spectator, it’s nice to see that nothing’s really changed.