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^20th September

Joe Grundy (b 18th September 1921): 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 a little short of 100 years of age in October 2019.

Joe Grundy was born 105 years ago on 18th September 1921

The BBC’s report from Ambridge on 20th September featured Eddie and George Grundy reminiscing about Joe and his lifelong fight against ruling class Ambridge.

Joe’s funeral was held on 8th November 2019, at St Stephens
Church Ambridge

There was a lot of memorialising about the late Joe Grundy
in Ambridge after his death. His nemesis Bert Fry wrote a poem and the
Professor tinkled the keyboards with a special tune, believed to have been a
variation on The Wurzels, I am a cider drinker

Some of the memories were 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 as 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 on the 102nd anniversary of his birth
as a proletarian hero. Someone who was always for the many of Ambridge not the
few, otherwise known as the Archer Dynasty