![]() ![]() Incredibly, the 2015 spirit of grasping evil inhabits dear old Gambon’s sweet voice and cuddlesome face, as he suckers villagers with freebie pastries and gourmet coffees, and as he suborns his invertebrate son into standing for the council vacancy on pain of withdrawing his contribution to his granddaughter’s school fees. They’re typified by Michael Gambon’s deli owner, Howard Mollison. If they aren’t all Cameroonian lackeys, it’s because they like Farage’s stance on Romanians. Behind the facade of mellow Cotswold stone live cold-hearted profiteers of austerity-years middle England, hoping to airbrush out the underclass as part of a soulless gentrification project. The Casual Vacancy is part Shameless in Dibleyshire and part mashup of The Archers and Benefits Street. It’s probably also entrepreneurialism à la Osborne. ![]() That’s apartheid,” Fairbrother told his fellow councillors. Before he died, Fairbrother opposed at a parish council meeting the repurposing of Pagford’s historic refuge for the poor and needy as a spa to fleece mini-breaking metropolitan jerks (no offence). ![]()
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