Forsythia
Dream on. Everything that has been said is true about this individual. She is a BLM activist. She accused Charles and Camilla in a tweet of abuse against Markle. She said Markle should be on the balcony at the jubilee. Now she claims she never said it…. Her mate is Markles pet photographer. He also chimed in yesterday. Lady Susan was recently quoted in the Telegraph as saying Markles marriage wouldn’t last. Join the dots and open your eyes. Just nice and convenient to derail William and Kate’s tour as they did when they visited the Caribbean previously.
Go for it Nigel Farage and others. Expose her and her agenda and links to Markle. A despicable set up job on an elderly lady.
A couple of points here, Forsythia.
1. There's nothing wrong with being a Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist. BLM isn't an organisation with a membership and official leadership, it's a decentralised movement established to protest against the disproportionate number of deaths of Black Americans for trivial reasons, in particular a 17-year-old boy carrying a bag of sweeties back to the relatives he was visiting in a Florida gated community, shot by a vigilante who pursued and harassed him for no good reason other than being Black in the wrong place. And, of course, the man in Minneapolis who was suffocated by a police officer after being arrested on suspicion of passing a fake 20-dollar bill, while handcuffed and lying prone on the ground. In Britain the movement has been focusing on the shameful records of dispropotionate Black deaths in police custody. It is a matter that warrants close attention so that it is not swept under the carpet.
2. There is no such person as "Markle". There is is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex to you. (Countess of Dumbarton when in Scotland). Whether or not you think she and her husband should have been on the balcony, it's a valid point for debate. She has said that she was subjected to racism within the royal household. As somebody said (with customary diplomacy), "recollections may vary". Perceptions of what constitutes racism, and what experience they have had of it, may also vary between a Californian of mixed heritage and pure-bred English aristocracy. Her persistent questioning at the reception would suggest that racism is indeed alive and well in the royal household. Given the late Queen's dedication to the Commonwealth, by the way, I doubt very much whether she would have approved.
3. Susan Hussey isn't quite the sheltered person she's portrayed as. Ten years ago it was possible to say that a woman of 83 was raised in the traditions of Empire but that time is now gone. She was seven when WW2 ended, nine when India and Pakistan became independent and the dismantling of Empire began. She was born in the same year as Diana Rigg, that quintessential icon of sixties Britain. Her older brother William Waldegrave was a minister in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet (he was my MP for a while later on, and to give him his due he was a good conscientious constituency MP although I still cheered when he went down, about ten minutes after Portillo). Her husband was Marmaduke Hussey, a Conservative Party donor installed by Thatcher as Chair of BBC governors with the express mission of removing Alasdair Milne, deemed to insufficiently deferential to the government, as Director-General and replacing him with somebody more compliant. It's not hard, at least to me, to see where her prejudices lie.
4. William and Kate's Caribbean tour was a PR disaster without any intervention from the Sussexes. Getting themselves filmed shaking fingers with Black children apparently penned in behind a wire fence, and riding through Kingston standing upright in an open-topped car in tropical military uniform, as if showing the colonials who was boss.
5. As for Nigel Farage, well I'd say he was a motor-mouthed spiv of the sort the Lady Susans of this world would find insufferably vulgar, but that's just me. He was speaking on GB News, which makes no pretence at even-handedness, it lists heavily to starboard (bilge keel showing). To misquote Dr Tolkien, if you rely on either of them for news you'll never want for moonshine. Nigel says Ngozi Fulani (born in Kilburnis "anti-British", which is odd considering how vehemently she insisted on her British nationality. He also says she's a Marxist which reflects an all-too-common misunderstanding of Marx (who thought Capitalism – he wrote a hefty book about it – was pretty good, the best system that had been devised at the time he was writing and certainly a huge improvement on Feudalism). As far as I know Ms Fulani hasn't analysed anything in terms of class conflict, although on the performance of the other night she might well be tempted after the run-in between the daughter of an Earl and the daughter of a British Railways worker (though not a driver: the union didn''t allow Black drivers in 1961), and some of the resulting commentary.
6. You do know, don't you, that Ngosi Fulani is no spring chicken herself, at 61?
