Lady Muck – “Let Them Use Electric Blankets”!
December 3, 2013
By Paul Homewood
From the Telegraph:
She was also heard to mutter “Let them eat cake”, as she swanned off to her stately home, Burnham Westgate Hall.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/periodproperty/8803543/For-sale-Burnham-Westgate-Hall.html
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And when the wind no longer blows, and the waters no longer flows, and the hamsters died from exposure, how does she propose to power the “electric” blankets?
For a while now I have actually thought this is not a bad idea.
On a low setting they would certainly use very little electricity and stop an elderly person from freezing to death.
But I do get the “Let them eat cake” attitude though.
Have a good look at that Stately Home. Now imagine heating it. Have you ever wondered why heavy tweed suits and twin sets with Pashmiras are so popular with those who live in them? Lady Rawlings is merely suggesting what she would do as a matter of course. more a case of, “Rosie O’ Grady and the Colonel’s Lady”, than Marie Antoinette.
Knee-jerk class warfare doesn’t really do the story justice.
I’ve slept in the bed of a pickup truck with a metal canopy. On really cold nights I’d get my dog inside my down bag and put a wool skull cap on. That worked really well as long as we stayed in the sleeping bag and in the truck. Unfortunately, at some point during the night, we both had to “go.”
Lady Rawlings could have long extension cords and electric socks too to toddle around her bungalow.
Oh jeaus wow.. I don’t see how using electricity reduces energy bills. and just because a person isn’t well off financially, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have the sense to put on a jumper or do what is necessary to keep warm when it gets cold. I think its very insulting for wealthy privileged people to dictate to the less well off. I understand that she was concerned and thought she could give some helpful tips, but given the widening class divide emerging from this runaway recession, its just another obnoxious slur that the less well off and vulnerable have to endure.