{"product_id":"9781472127365","title":"Patronising Bastards : How the Elites Betrayed Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Letts, Quentin, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/05\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Constable,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Press \u0026amp; journalism, Social classes\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781472127365\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot since Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake' have the peasants been so revolting. Western capitalism's elites are bemused: Brexit, Trump, and maybe more eruptions to follow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut their rulers were so good to them! Hillary Clinton called the ingrates 'a basket of deplorables', Bob Geldof flicked them a V sign, Tony Blair thought voters too thick to understand the question. Wigged judges stared down their legalistic noses at a surging, pongy populous. These people who know best, these snooterati with their faux-liberal ways, are the 'Patronising Bastards'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir downfall is largely of their own making - their Sybaritic excesses, an obsession with political correctness, the prolonged rape of reason and rite. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou'll find these self-indulgent show-ponys not just in politics and the cloistered old institutions but also in high fashion, football, among the clean-eating foodies and at the Baftas and Oscars, where celebritydom hires PR smoothies to massage reputations and mislead, distort, twist. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolitical columnist and bestselling author Quentin Letts identifies these condescending creeps and their networks, their methods and their dubious morals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLetts kebabs them like mutton. It's baaaahd. It's juicy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRichard Branson, Emma Thompson, Shami Chakrabarti, Jean-Claude Juncker and any head waiter who calls you 'young man' - this one's for you!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022282555545,"sku":"9781472127365","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781472127365.jpg?v=1602538381","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781472127365","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}