The depths of nastiness in Lady Toynbee's spiteful little diatribe in this morning's Guardian is assurance, if assurance were needed, at just how successful yesterday's royal wedding was. Polly is spitting blood. She and fellow republican lefties see it as the reversal of two decades of Socialist drearyness, two decades of trying to destroy our concept of nation, two decades of undermining British institutions in favour of the Rousseau-esque Socialist State, two decades of striving to extinguish every noble character of our national identity. That Polly recognises, and hates it, that this one event has undone tens of thousands of poisonous column inches, billions in stolen taxes and the concerted efforts of the entire Socialist propaganda machine should make us rejoice indeed. Today it's alright to be English again.
Even the BBC was too busy to send a crew to film Anjem Choudery's petulant ranting, and indeed I suspect many Muslims in the UK were as glued to their TV sets as were the natives. Muslim kiddies will compare the illiterate ignorance and poverty of the local village imam from Bangladesh to the articulate splendour of the established Church, will have seen the Union flag aloft in the April breeze across the realm, and will have learned a valuable lesson.
For yesterday, like rain after after a long drought, the forces of good and light and truth and right reasserted themselves and banished the baleful evil that has overhung our land back into the noisome shadows. Marriage, loyalty, family, love, kinship, tradition, charity, ritual, Christianity, nationhood and human joy were triumphant. There can have been no clearer message in affirmation of British values.
The resentment and animosity of the Left, like Polly's, still finds an outlet. Listen to the repeat of the 'News Quiz' at lunchtime today on R4 if you doubt it. Embittered, unfunny third rate intellects posing as 'comedians' - yes, Jeremy Hardy, that includes you - who make their trade by undermining and scorning all that is good. Well, they'll have fewer laughs today.