A FAMOUS GROUSE
LATE on Thursday, or maybe early yesterday morning, but definitely before the last rounds of Fernet Branca, the Mahogany Ridge regulars were struck by a sense that out there, in the desperate hurly burly, the mood was changing. We knew the mense were gatvol, but now it seems the gatvol is going into overdrive.
The first signs came with the slithering apology from James Henderson, chief executive of Bell Pottinger, the UK public relations firm charged with whipping up enmity on behalf of the Gupta-owned Oakbay Capital. No-one bought it.
It was ugly in some respects. We do need to ask ourselves whether the “revolutionary” campaign cooked up by pasty swots in London was responsible for our recent racial squabbling, or if our bile and hatred, our inner hyena, was always there in the first place?
But the apology was encouraging in other respects. Henderson did admit the social media attacks on his staff were “clearly the result of strong and sincere anger”.
Consequently, they called in boffo lawyers to review their work with Oakbay. Although their report is only due in the next few weeks, they’ve dug up enough in the interim for Bell Pottinger to fire, among others, partner Victoria Geoghegan, architect of White Monopoly Capital™, for “inappropriate and offensive” activity.