The Ambridge Socialist
8th November
Joe Grundy: A Proletarian Salute
Edward Kelsey, a lifelong trade unionist, died in April 2019 aged 88 and the character he represented for so long in the Archers Joe Grundy died just short of 100 years of age in October 2019.
Joe’s funeral is today, 8th November, at St Stephens.
There has been a lot of memorialising about the late Joe Grundy in Ambridge recently. Bert Fry is even writing a poem and the Professor will tinkle the keyboards with a special tune, believed to be a variation on The Wurzels, I am a cider drinker
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 vengeance on the Archers’ part and deserves to be remembered as such.
Joe Grundy was a fearless and tireless opponent of the rich of Ambridge and deserves to be remembered as a proletarian hero. Someone who was always for the many of Ambridge not the few, otherwise known as the Archer Dynasty
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