Whingeing about nasty EU is comical
In a bad-tempered letter (October 26), Philip Bryant refers to “arrogant, self-styled intellectuals”. The context makes it unambiguously clear that I am one of them. Can Bryant now please cite, verbatim et litteratim, any published letter of mine in which I have styled myself an intellectual?
Bryant has got me bang to rights on not mentioning Roger Watts’ reference to ‘Brexitwerps’. No, I didn’t mention it, because the recent letter in which Watts coined it was perfectly clear in its context – demonstrating the rudeness of the ‘remoaners’ insult by imagining an equally insulting term to fling back.
The odd thing about ‘remoaner’ is that it seems to me the ones doing the moaning are leave voters. Time and again, I have read the letters page and thought, “Eh, cheer up. You won.” The whinging about those nasty 27 countries ganging up on poor little Albion seems to channel that great British political philosopher, Kenneth Charles Williams (1926-88), as he exclaimed, “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me.”
Alan T Harrison
Walsall
