Robin Tilbrook, Chairman of the English Democrats, mentioned in Quentin Letts’ book Patronising Bastards.

Earlier this year I read Quentin Letts’ Patronising Bastards – How the elites betrayed Britain (Constable, 2017) a hilarious, but barbed take-down of the “furtive elite” who want to “control opinion and dictate attitudes”. 

I was pleasantly surprised to come across a mention for Robin Tilbrook, Chairman of the English Democrats Party.  Mr Tilbrook, I hasten to add, is not one of Quentin Letts’ Patronising Bastards.  The mention in the book comes in a reference to Professor Nicholas Boyle from the University of Cambridge who wrote of the English in the New European: “Like resentful ruffians uprooting the new trees in the park and trashing the new play area, 17 million English, the lager louts of Europe, voted for Brexit in an act of geographical vandalism.”

Quentin Letts informs us that Robin Tilbrook reported Boyle to Essex police for a “hate incident” claiming that: “As an Englishman I am offended by such a tirade by a person who is supposed to be and is paid to be a role model for students.  Attacking the English is just as much “racist” as attacking any other groups.”

Professor Boyle is number 96 on Mr Letts’ list of the top 100 Patronising Bastards.