Patronising Bastards: How The Elites Betrayed Britain. Quentin Letts (Hardback)

PATRONISING BASTARDS: How the Elites Betrayed Britain by Quentin Letts.

Not since Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake; have the peasant been so revolting. Western capitalism's elites are bemused: brexit, trump and maybe more eruptions to follow. But their rulers were good to them! Hillary Clinton called the ingrates 'a basket of deplorables'; Bob Geldof flicked them a V sign; Tony Blair thought voters too thick to understand the question. Wigged judges stared down their legalistic noses at a surging, pongy populace

These people who know best, these snooterati with their faux-liberal ways, are the 'Patronising Bastards'. Their downfall is largely of their own making - their Sybaitic excesses, an obsession with political correctness, the prolonged rape of reason and rite. You'll find these self-indulgent show-ponys not just in politics and the cloistered old institutions but also in high fashion, football, among the clean-eating foodies and at the Baftas and Oscars, where celebritydom hires PR smoothies to massage reputations and mislead, distort, twist. Political columnist Quentin Letts identifies these condescending creeps and their networks, their methods and their dubious morals. Letts kebabs them like mutton. It's baaaahd. Its juicy.

A hardback published by Constable in 2017