Ambridge Socialist
14th June
Black Lives Matter: Statue of slave trader Charles 1st at Felpersham Guildhall must go
The Archers whether in new normal format or traditional format is recorded several weeks in advance so its not realistic to think that the recent Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd will find their way into BBC reports from Ambridge.
That doesn’t mean they aren’t happening of course. There is the question, quite long standing, of whether an Ambridge luminary should be erected on the village green, which we’ll address separately.
However as Roifield Brown questioned on the Dum-Tee-Dum podcast on Friday is there not a statue that needs taking down in Ambridge?
Ambridge Socialist reporters have been looking into this. It is understood that a focus of concern for Black Lives Matters protesters in Borsetshire is a statue of King Charles 1st to be found on the front of Felpersham Guildhall.
In 1632 Charles 1st granted a licence to a syndicate of traders that gave them royal approval to transport enslaved Africans from Guinea.
The Ambridge Socialist supports calls for the statue to be removed from its present position and placed in an appropriate museum.
The new normal Archers
There seems to have been an increase in complaints this week about the new normal Archers consisting of monologues rather than dialogue.
Its perhaps understandable after a week of discussion of Tony’s beard and hair that there is a demand for something a little less tedious. The Ambridge Socialist works closely with the Beard Liberation Front who were in contrast pleased at this week’s Archers. Beard stories in Ambridge are rare even if, perhaps predictably, the wrong conclusion was reached.
It must also be said that Natasha in lockdown monologue just isn’t obnoxious enough.
Next week Lilian will be unleashed, as it were, as will Kate. Expect more complaints.
Happy Birthday Peggy Woolley
Peggy(aka June Spencer) is 101 today. The Ambridge Socialist wishes her a happy birthday, although we are reasonably certain that she doesnt read us…
A reminder though that in 2017 we defended Hilda Ogden
Peggy’s cat Hilda has been framed for the murder of a number of small creatures in Ambridge simply because Robert Snell spotted it with a mouse in its mouth. A cat, catching a mouse? Shocking. If only to Snell. An Ambridge Socialist poll has acquitted Hilda of involvement in the murders and suggested the person most likely was of course David Archer..
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