AH Vignette: Old Boys

Thande

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WHEN YOU ARE BEING MARRIED

That one got to me because I was at a wedding the other day and they indeed went through all the 'switch off your phones, you don't want to be That Guy' thing.

Then a helicopter turned up in the middle of the 'I do's. After we'd just joked about the bride's ex turning up from America in a helicopter to burst through the windows at the 'forever hold your peace' bit.

OTL's ASB.
 
That one got to me because I was at a wedding the other day and they indeed went through all the 'switch off your phones, you don't want to be That Guy' thing.

Then a helicopter turned up in the middle of the 'I do's. After we'd just joked about the bride's ex turning up from America in a helicopter to burst through the windows at the 'forever hold your peace' bit.

OTL's ASB.

What the flying what

Oh, and one more spoiler:

The foreign sec arriving 'by air, which still caused a stir' is perhaps the cheekiest 'but then it must be the interbellum?' steer, but the in-universe justification is that in ten years' time, the long-awaited condemnation of air travel will have begun, and Europe's responsible diplomats will be travelling by train...
 

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The foreign sec arriving 'by air, which still caused a stir' is perhaps the cheekiest 'but then it must be the interbellum?' steer, but the in-universe justification is that in ten years' time, the long-awaited condemnation of air travel will have begun, and Europe's responsible diplomats will be travelling by train...

I think you could possibly get away with that now just for the 'waste of taxpayers' money' thing that might show up for an internal flight.
 

RyanF

Banned
Very, very good. Have the other parties been infiltrated by actors as well? Tennent or Freeman led Labour?
 
Thanks, though it's a far from original thought. I recommend a trawl through the Graun with keywords like 'working class actors' or the like. But glad you liked the way I put it.

A couple of the chaps I work with in The Industry are OEs, but on an individual level they're working as hard as anyone else and are not getting any handouts. It's not that arty types have done a 180 and now try to favour posh people - it's that the wealthy are the only people who can afford to go into acting. On current trajectories, there will be many more Cumberbatches before we see another Bob Hoskins.

Well, no - in fact, I touch on the point of celebrity involvement in Actual Politics in the latest section of White Town, which goes to show how well-travelled that road is - but the lack of working class involvement in the Media isn't something people should shut up about just because somebody said it first. And 'twas ever thus, of course.

FWIW, I thought 'by air' meant a personal drone or a jetpack or something.
 
The only issue I can really find with this Meadow (and its something I am happy to put to one side) is that I can't see all these actors suddenly moving into politics. Unless the Tories top brass ask them to as they see how much they are loved by the public
 
The only issue I can really find with this Meadow (and its something I am happy to put to one side) is that I can't see all these actors suddenly moving into politics. Unless the Tories top brass ask them to as they see how much they are loved by the public

That's exactly what it is, plus Vignettewavium. The world is implied to have gone even shitter (the Armistice mentioned in the text isn't the 1918 one) and with a Milne Ad Extremis Labour Party, the Tories carefully court The Chaps and point out they have a real opportunity to make the world better. Cumbers in particular has been very vocal in his refugee activism IOTL, this is a world in which things are even worse more than a decade from now. Them all getting political is the vignette-stretch, but I'm fine with that. The trick was creating circumstances where they'd - posh or not - take more than one look at the Tories.
 
This was posted in the week that rumours about Robert 'Fuck Me I'm Posh' Pattinson being the favourite to play Jamie Vardy in the much-touted-may-never-be-realised-Jamie-Vardy-film broke. Jamie Vardy.

I like it but I'm not sure them being Tories really works for me for all it underlines the class aspect. Given both the politics and the career backgrounds involved I think a return to a whiggish Liberalism in the Lib Dems would have been more appropriate - I mean you even reference H B-C!
 

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This was posted in the week that rumours about Robert 'Fuck Me I'm Posh' Pattinson being the favourite to play Jamie Vardy in the much-touted-may-never-be-realised-Jamie-Vardy-film broke. Jamie Vardy.

I like it but I'm not sure them being Tories really works for me for all it underlines the class aspect. Given both the politics and the career backgrounds involved I think a return to a whiggish Liberalism in the Lib Dems would have been more appropriate - I mean you even reference H B-C!

Good point. Or perhaps Labour being taken over by whiggish right-on types of this ilk and effectively becoming the old Liberals?
 
Good point. Or perhaps Labour being taken over by whiggish right-on types of this ilk and effectively becoming the old Liberals?

I know it's only a vignette so space is compacted, but I think a return to a Tory-Liberal duopoly would have underlined the point fairly well. I mean, establishments by their nature are usually cross-party things.
 
This was posted in the week that rumours about Robert 'Fuck Me I'm Posh' Pattinson being the favourite to play Jamie Vardy in the much-touted-may-never-be-realised-Jamie-Vardy-film broke. Jamie Vardy.

I like it but I'm not sure them being Tories really works for me for all it underlines the class aspect. Given both the politics and the career backgrounds involved I think a return to a whiggish Liberalism in the Lib Dems would have been more appropriate - I mean you even reference H B-C!

You make a good point, but I guess I couldn't quite get into a headspace where the Lib Dems are A Thing again even in 10 years' time. Felt like I'd have been raising more questions than were answered.

But I've also had All Posh Actors Join The Tories Just Sort Of Because And Also There's Been A Big Unmentioned War. So I don't think I can use that excuse! Perhaps instead of 'Tom Watson leads the ashes of Labour into a minority government and predictably it goes tits up' I should've doubled down on 'Corbyn fucks it up' and Labour are a rump these days with Whiggish Liberals under HB-C herself are the Loyal Opposition... Perhaps I'll do that if I want to put this in a vignette collection and rewrite it.

Thanks for all the feedback, as ever.
 
How realistic would it be to imagine the likes of James Blunt, Will Young, or at least some of Keane (people I regard as among Cameron's major enablers), also becoming Tory MPs - and possibly quite senior ones - in such a timeline?

I can't quite imagine Chris Martin as a Tory MP but I *can* imagine him as a Whiggish Liberal if that tendency ever does make a serious comeback.
 
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