Time Beeb woke up to danger of giving populist right a voice
UNTIL he became a poster boy for the populist right, the most interesting thing about Laurence Fox was that he was once married to Billie Piper.
The problem is he has now woken up to the career move of jumping on the bandwagon, condemning the “woke”.
He has an album to promote and a glacier mint is less transparent.
During a debate on the BBC’s Question Time, he decried a female questioner who suggested the onslaught of abuse suffered by Meghan Markle was racist.
Fox responded that discussions of racism in Britain were “really starting to get boring now” – this coming from a man whose own face looks tired of hearing him speak.
He accused the woman of reverse racism for pointing out that he is a “white, privileged male”.
Now he has hit out at the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in Oscar-nominated film 1917, calling it “institutionally racist” and a distraction from the story.
But he clung on in there to see if the Germans won in the end.
Ironically, Fox has now inadvertently shone a light on the thousands of Indians who died in the conflict, shamefully edited from history long ago.
As well as being a vanilla actor and a woeful musician, he is rubbish at effective bigotry.
Fox has admitted he learned his pernicious strand of politics from watching YouTube videos.
Not only did he learn from the online channel how a cat can open a door but he became
“totally radicalised” and is now on a crusade against political correctness.
Oh, how we are quaking in our pleather flats.
Fox is also a misogynist and has vowed not to date young women because they consider themselves oppressed and believe “that the world is a terrible place” – no doubt after meeting him.
He has just released an album, A Grief Observed, and not since a monkey played the cymbals has music been delivered such a gift.
Being offensive is nothing new for Fox.
He was expelled from Harrow and even his Wikipedia page refers to him being “outspoken” and unpopular, by which we conclude he was a spoiled brat. Now he sniffs a career in dirty politics as a Katie Hopkins with an appendage because he can’t cut it as anything else.
It’s shameful that it has taken Fox so long to get infamous, given that he has been gifted every advantage, before we even start on him being posh and white.
He comes from one of Britain’s most illustrious acting dynasties but not even nepotism got him further than playing a sidekick to a sidekick to a dead detective in Lewis, currently showing on UK Gold at 4am. His breakout role was in a horror film called The Hole, not, as inferred, an eponymous part.
But the real villain of the piece here is Question Time, which has once more dumped on us another Faragesque turd.
A programme which was once a fixture for the politically interested is now in the YouTube business of reactionary politics.
Fox was booked on the show as future clickbait, guaranteed controversy to boost ratings.
If the BBC continues on this destructive, irresponsible road it will lose its fight against obsolescence and even its greatest defenders won’t be sorry.