Maggie's Farm

Please excuse the above entry. I hit the wrong button. What I meant to say is presented below.

My blood pressure rose significantly when I read the following rather smug comment: "Seems to me that the "privileged" in Britain were always free to do as they pleased - and did." So British society, the true marvel and fountain of much that is good and worthy in the world since the Glorious Revolution, was created by who and what then? Sheesh!

Roger Scruton, who has forgotten more about Britain than either "bird dog" or myself will ever know, says it best in his wonderful book "England: An Elegy." "The English elite was a slowly forming, slowly changing and yet mobile society of people whose connections, formed through school, college and regiment were of the kind that fostered trust while maintaining distance. It ethos was collegiate rather than familial and this gave it enormous power to withstand external shock, to reform itself under threat and to guarantee honest and trustworthy behaviour from its members."

Whoever wrote the original blog entry clearly has been watching too many post WWII, leftist interpretations of British society in movies and TV. Of course lately you don't get many class based scripts since the left has essentially succeeded in destroying the "honest and trustworthy" behavior that made Britain an envy of the world for almost 400 years.