I've just finished watching the opening ceremony that touched on a variety of themes, from the Green & Pleasant Land, to the battles of the industrial revolution, the suffragettes, the tragic losses of the Wars, to the National Health Service, and music and popular culture from the 60s to the present.
The overwhelming opinion seems to be that choreographer Danny Boyle and his team have done a bloody marvellous job, and have got the balance jst right between being quintessentially British and producing a show that everyone over the world can relate to. For example, everyone knows James Bond and Mr Bean.
It seems however that a few don't agree. Join me over the fold...
Tory MP Aidan Burley has Tweeted that the opening ceremony was...
"The most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen – more than Beijing, the capital of a communist state! Welfare tribute next?"
He quickly followed it up with:
"Thank God the athletes have arrived! Now we can move on from leftie multi-cultural crap. Bring back red arrows, Shakespeare and the Stones!"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Here's a bit of background on this wanker:
http://turc.org.uk/...
Aidan Burley is a major player in the 'Trade Union Reform Campaign.'
These people aim to complete 'Thatcher's unfinished business', and destroy once and for all what is left of the trade union movement in the UK.
To top it off in style, he attended a stag party that included a 'toast to the Third Reich', at which guests praised 'the ideology and thought processes of Adolf Hitler.'
This may have been ironic, however to host such an event on the European continent, where such antics are illegal and highly insensitive, pretty much sums up the ideology and thought processes or Mr Burley and friends.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
I understand that those of a certain mindset may be offended by nurses from a socialised medicine system dancing around decadently, and by portrayals of the doughty proletariat from the industrial revolution with their darkened faces, however this bloke has to win a gold medal for tone-deafness.
The latest tweets by Burley are likely to guarantee that the Oxford graduate, who had been marked out by Cameron for promotion after his election in 2010, will have no political future in a mainstream political party. Burley is MP for the marginal seat of Cannock Chase and will be vulnerable to a Labour challenge if he retains the Conservative whip.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke.
Mr Burley is what we would call a cheesy bellend. I'll leave you to look that one up.