The Labour Party is the party of the public sector white - collar worker, the apparatchik, the politics wonk who's never done a hand's turn of proper work in their life and the
media luvvie.
So predicted Enoch Powell in 1968, a time when Harold Wilson's party had just begun to introduce right -
on luvvie liberalism alongside its rapidly dating economic socialism.
Conservative eurosceptics reacted angrily, with Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson taking to Twitter to declare that he «couldn't give a monkeys what overpaid
Leftie luvvie Emma Thompson thinks about #Brexit».
See, this is the kind of statement that sounds
pure luvvie but Howle is chatty and quick to laugh.
Paddington starts a window - cleaning business so he can buy the book, but while he's filling his savings jar, he's framed for theft by washed - up
luvvie Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant) who wants the book for himself.
A bit like most of the environ -
luvvie media mush out there
However, with neither «The Reader» nor «Frost / Nixon» enjoying a particular advantage over the other, I'm guessing
the luvvie votes split, and Beaufoy adds yet another trophy to his collection.
On paper Billy Howle, who co-stars with Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach, the big screen adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, could come across as a «
luvvie» who takes himself far too seriously but in the flesh he's a very engaging young man.