Not much to add to various bloggers’ comments on the “blooding” of the hunt mob in parliament square last week.
After the first Countryside Alliance rally a few years back I was unfortunate enough to be on a bus with some of this lot, all clad in tweed. They were all absurdly shrill and jolly, but not because of the surroundings of our beautiful city, which they were relentlessly slagging off because of its ugliness. They were, and I hope you will forgive me for my intemperate language, cunts of the highest order.
As the bus continued on its journey we were treated to all sorts of vapid jolliness, until we reached Kings Cross. One woman picked out the station for its horridness and took a step too far for one of the other passengers. He turned round and said, calmly, “You might like to know…”
And this, dear reader, was enough to turn their ruddy complexions completely ashen. I have no idea whether it was because he was black, or whether their day out in the city was being spoiled by the locals contributing, but the top deck of that 73 suddenly went very quiet…
“You might like to know… that the station is a grade one listed building. It’s often seen as one of the best examples of victorian architecture – it was designed by Lewis Cubbitt and was the biggest ever made at the time. It’s also rumoured to be the site of the last resting place of Queen Boudicca”.
(seriously – I’ve forgotten all the details and had to google them, but it was pretty much like this although much better put and more detailed)
Yokel woman was reduced to stuttering something about it being “lovely” and then the whole crew got off the bus, I assume because they had a train to catch.
I wanted to grab hold of the geezer and hug him. But this is London, and we don’t do stuff like that here.
The best resource on the Countryside Alliance is: