Monty Python’s John Cleese sez that “London is no longer an English city”.
Clearly he is a vile, racist, hate-filled homophobe (“Loretta?!?”)
Git em!!!
Excuse me?
Ok. Thanks for letting us know.
I remember my first stroke.
Woah! Old grumpy white British dude longs for a less diverse time! Younger people grossed out by his racism! FILM AT ELEVEN!!!
Link/Cite?
Da fuck?
From here.(Tweet quoted)
Nothing about immigrants.
Further clarification:
Still nothing about immigrants.
So what is he talking about then?
I would guess he’s talking about social changes that have led to society being more casual - from a different viewpoint, more rude - and more money-oriented than when he was growing up. It’s not an uncommon view in people of his age group.
Don’t mention the war.
Yeah, he just sounds like another grumpy old soul pining for the halcyon days of yore. BFD. And is he really a SDMB “hero”? That’s news to me.
I agree that it sounds more like geezerism than Nazism. Probably old people were saying the same thing about damn long-haired hippies when he was younger.
Cleese has been intermittently cranky for years. Whatevs.
It’s not like he wrote the character of Basil Fawlty as someone who exploited, bullied and frequently assaulted a caricature of a Spanish person or anything.
He’s talking about their form of gentrification and soulless corporate plagues replacing genial English establishments.
Get a grip people. This “Get him/cancel Cleese!” bullshit needs to stop.
Given that nobody here said that, I’d question your reading–but your first paragraph already answered any such question.
Did he even say that becoming “less English” was necessarily a bad thing?
The older some people get, the more they start missing how (certain) things were in their youth. While typically that is at most mildly annoying, I have to say this reads to me like he is lamenting the fact that lots of people in London aren’t like the people that were around when he grew up. And that has connotations I find unfortunate at minimum, and I do think less of him because of it
John Cleese started making grumpy old man statements years ago. In at least some ways he was the grumpy old man of the group even back in the Monty Python days.