Some Things Never Change

‘…A few months ago, while on holiday in Spain I had to drive to a radio station in Marbella to record some alterations to a TV advertising voice-over. While I was there, I happened to pick up one of the many English-language newspapers that serve the Costa del Sol – The Euro Weekly News – in which I found a column that made my heart skip. It was written by a man called Leapy Lee, who had a hit in 1968 with a song called “Little Arrows,” and who was later sent to prison following a fight in a pub which also involved an actor called Alan Lake (husband of the Fifties’ starlet Diana Dors).
Yes, that’s my idea of the perfect columnist, some minor expat singer with a criminal record and views tailor-made for his audience of drink-sozzled, golf-playing Costa Brits. Sure enough, Leapy didn’t let me down. His column employs a folksy, jaunty style, laced with references to his “dear old mum” and his idyllic Essex childhood to express his ludicrously reactionary views on Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, asylum seekers to the UK, Jihadist terrorists who are “nothing more than dog’s droppings in the swimming pool of decent humanity” and the general state of the world. As my dear old mum would say, you can keep your Aaronovitches, your Melanie Phillipses and your Rees Moggs – it’s Leapy Lee for me’.
(Alexei Sayle in The Independent. September 2006). Heh!

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/alexei-sayle-the-world-according-to-me-414250.html