Staying in the UK, and in a speech to the IPPR think-tank, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has claimed that the Proms concerts attract too narrow a section of society. Instead, she singled out Coronation Street as an “icon of common culture that everybody can feel part of.”
“The Proms are full of boring, imperialistic classical music which only appeals to unreconstructed, top-hatted Tory toffs,” said the Culture Secretary. “And remember, the Nazis liked classical music. Whereas Coronation Street appeals to honest, easily-pleased, salt-of-the-earth Labour voters. I think it’s safe to say that Hitler never watched a single episode. Need I say more?”
Unreconstructed, top-hatted Tory toff David Cameron, however, claimed that Ms Hodge’s underdeveloped prole brain was simply not sufficiently refined to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of the understated yet complex tonal structures of the classical repertoire.
“It is a classic example of a Labour politician just not getting something,” he said. “When Margaret Hodge talks about a common culture, the emphasis is clearly on the common rather than the culture. I say, that’s rather a good one! Do write it down, Johnson, there’s a good chap, I may use it later against that plebby oik Brown.”
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