I really liked George in last night’s episode. Made me lol in the trial & aftermath and seemed friendly when they were singing in the Jungle Arms (granted, they were all singing HIS song, but hey, I still have a soft spot for him so I’ll take it).
What I particularly loved though was when he declined the hook to start badmouthing Matt to Ant & Dec and said that he was ‘human’. That’s quite powerful within its context.
The Left have this downright nasty trope where they dehumanise political opponents. My parents did it when I was growing up. I actually believed as a child that Maggie was some sort of robotic monster and definitely, not by any means a WOMAN. We had never had a *woman* run the country was the mental gymnastics of my feminist mother, leaving me quite
as to who the actual PM and monarch were.
Goes back to Nye Bevan and his ‘Tories are lower than vermin’ thing. (Strangely enough he failed to apply that to Oswald Mosely though, his personal pal and closest political partner, who was the actual leader of UK blackshirts/Fascists. Dark that. And the way it keeps getting pushed under the carpet by Labour. Great hero of the NHS a Nazi sympathiser you say? See nothing, hear nothing
Own it peeps!)
You see a lot of it on here too re. Matt. The constant dehumanising of the man. Those doing it just show their own emotional immaturity and lack of proper political thought.
So, yeah, kudos to Boy George on that quite considerable personal growth. And for being man enough to articulate it when he was being guided the other way.