The Ambridge Socialist
27th October
Reporting on the Class Struggle in Borsetshire
We Defend the memory of Joe Grundy
There has been a lot of memorialising about the late Joe Grundy in Ambridge recently. Apparently Bert Fry is even writing a poem.
Some of the memories have been less than satisfactory however. David Archer claimed that Joe Grundy was a poacher and, by definition that this was wrong. The Ambridge Socialist believes that Joe Grundy was not poaching but taking animals from common land for his own use and purposes. Further Archer claimed that Joe Grundy’s dog had to be shot by the Archer Dynasty was it was worrying sheep. This was simply an act of class war and deserves to be remembered as such.
Alf Grundy is right
There are concerns that Eddie Grundy is becoming a class collaborator. Alf Grundy has rightly stated that Ambridge is still about the ‘haves and have nots’. Eddie dissents. Hmmm.
Hilda gets a speaking part at last
Hilda has re-appeared and has (at last) got a speaking part. Numerous miaows have been issued. Apparently Hilda is pregnant
Joy
Joy has been helpfully trying to do her best to facilitate the search for Hilda the cat who was allegedly ‘missing’.
Joy appears to irritate some Ambridge residents and indeed some listeners to the Archers on social media who wonder what purpose Joy serves in the Village since it already has a very large number of irritating residents. As Archers supremo Keri Davies noted on twitter, we will find out, all in good time.
In Other News
Its Oliver’s Birthday. Tracey has given him some wine. Oliver isn’t sure. Apparently there has been ‘gossip’. Oliver is clear that there is a class divide. He is the employer and Tracey is the employee. He should have a word with Eddie.
Joe Grundy’s Will contains details about the need to look after the ferrets
Re Joys purpose: she is a comic example of the lumpenproletariat with Beechwood aspirations (versus Emma’s tragic one) and willing victim of millionaire semi-aristo Justin’s honey trap: the scriptwriters have been reading Jane Austen again. And look at Oliver and Tracey! Eliza Doolittle or what? English class warfare is perfectly alive and well as satirised over in Ambridge.