Jake Berry: ignorant Tory who likened opera houses with football clubs is OWNED on Twitter
Jake Berry: he thinks art is for cultured southerners, while northerners consider their culture to be football.
Jake Berry may have an ordinary-sounding name but he’s as entitled – and dim-witted – as all the other Tory toffs.
He recently exhibited his staggering Tory ignorance while actually trying to do something decent – appealing for government cash to help northern football clubs.
The trouble was not in the intention, but in the delivery of the appeal. He suggested that people in the south of England consider the Royal Opera House and the ballet to be “at the heart of their culture”, while those in the north consider their culture to be housed in their local football stadia.
He could not see how insulting this is.
He was basically saying that northerners are uncultured louts whose principle joy in life is seeing a leather bladder being kicked around a field on a Saturday afternoon, whereas southerners are refined, and are therefore able to appreciate exclusive art forms like music and ballet.
A put-down was in order – and has been duly delivered:
Yes. As a person who lives in the South, I can confirm this. Many of us actually live inside opera houses and communicate solely in the form of arias and recitative. Swarms of ballerinas are a daily menace on the streets, and we're warned never to feed them. https://t.co/4zMT7jRdvb
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) November 11, 2020
Take your medicine, Berry.
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