Published: May 30, 2019
The actor’s grumble about London reflects a wrongheaded view on immigration, unchanged since the days of empire
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“Some years ago I opined that London was not really an English city any more,” is how John Cleese began a tweet on Wednesday. “Since then, virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observation.” When eight long years ago he made a similar claim, he gave us the unabridged version. “I’m not sure what’s going on in Britain,” he said while appearing on an Australian TV programme. “Let me say this, I don’t know what’s going on in London because London is no longer an English city and that’s how they got the Olympics. They said: ‘We’re the most cosmopolitan city on Earth,’ but it doesn’t feel English.”
He bemoans immigrants in London, but because of race and class he’s called an 'expat' in the Caribbean
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