I just about managed it. As a fully-fledged left wing loony enemy within, and raving metrosexual, metropolitan, yoghurt-knitting, tree-hugging, sandal-shuffling, rabid bleeding heart Marxist and QPR fan, it wasn’t always easy.
Well, I don’t think I could do so anymore, not with the present idiot chorus raging outside the classroom. Very nasty opinions seem fashionable. They seem accepted, celebrated and flaunted. Any old fruitbat seems to feel free to express some toxic “opinions” about the Romanians “next door”, the gays causing floods, and those immigrants “swamping” the nation – all couched in the rancid vocabulary of “chavs”, “yobs”, “pikeys”, “cheats”, “nig nogs”, “sluts” and “Bongo Bongo Land”. I thought you could be arrested for this sort of thing – or put in a loony bin.
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