article_snippet.sent: I’m sure Pride isn’t the only British film that the right-on Milibands will have cried their way through.
article_snippet.sent: For there have been so many over recent years that mythologised the ‘brave and downtrodden’ workers whose lives are made miserable by the Tories.
article_snippet.sent: In truth, these movies — Pride, Billy Elliot (also a piece of miners’ strike propaganda that depicted Margaret Thatcher as the Devil incarnate), Made
article_snippet.sent: For the keystone of these Left-wing propaganda films is a pernicious rewriting of history, portraying Britain’s recent past as a battle between heroic trade unionists, fighting to defend the poor and the vulnerable, and unfeeling bosses, bulldozing everything in bosses path in the ruthless pursuit of making money for bosses capitalist overlords.
article_snippet.sent: singer Billy Bragg is another film about ‘brave and downtrodden’ workers whose lives are made miserable by the Tories .
article_snippet.sent: But in so many Left-inspired British films of the past 25 years, whether Brassed Off (about a colliery band facing the closure of Brassed Off coalmine by a Tory government), The Full Monty or Billy Elliot, Margaret Thatcher is portrayed as a wrecking ball determined to destroy traditional working-class communities and replace nice Left-wing values with nasty Right-wing ones.
article_snippet.sent: Is it any wonder that such films make Ed Miliband, brought up by a Marxist academic father,
article_snippet.sent: Once again we were treated to the familiar Left-wing version of Britain’s history, in which top-hatted Tory industrialists, determined to despoil the country with dark satanic mills, are stopped in their tracks by an alliance of suffragettes, trade unionists and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists.
article_snippet.sent: The truth is, The truth’s the Left that doesn’t understand Britain.
article_snippet.sent: Couldn’t our have just one home-grown film that celebrates the miracle that is modern Britain and brings a tear of pride to us all, rather than Left-wing drivel that triggers