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Now Liz Jones's car is pelted by eggs
9 Sep 2009A writer who had a shot fired at her letterbox after she angered local people with her work has been targeted again - with eggs thrown at her car.
Liz Jones, 50, caused upset with a national newspaper column and a book when she labelled nearby residents in Brushford, Somerset, "toothless farmers".
Gunshots hit the letterbox on her gate last week, and today she revealed the latest attack.
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Oh dear. When will folks stop being so insulted by all of Ms Jones's musings? Every single time one of her articles appears in The Mail, there's a barrage of comments not only blasting their content, but attacking her personally in equal measure. She is an ex-glossy fashion mag editor, and isn't really considered a serious writer, so I think people should take what she says with a pinch of salt. For me, her writing is a diversion. In fact, some of her comments make me reel with laughter.
After 10 years of living in London, the place where I'm from (near Hull, Yorkshire) is still a source of amusement for many. I grew up on a farm for 18 years where there are, in fact, toothless people who apparently don't know what a razor or shampoo look like. At the same time, there are 'yummy mummies' and hardworking office-types just like you find in London. The thing is, it's simply not as interesting to write about the less 'characterful' people.
If you want a balanced argument, fair enough, don't read Liz Jones (she'll say things like all female New Yorkers are thick). But if, like me, you fancy indulging in a little undignified bitchiness from time to time, she's your woman.
- Ed, London, UK, 13/10/2009 18:25
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Essex Ex Londoner. You too may have had Londonish ways and superior airs when you moved to a small town. Bet you didn't indulge in writing national newspaper columns on the short-comings of your new community and neighbours. To add insult to heinous injury was to make money and make your living out of stooping to sneering at your new community in print. For her not to expect antagonism and payback in the form of ostracism has me almost rolling on the floor laughing - it assumes that those in Somerset can't read!!!
- Jools, London, 13/10/2009 17:25
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Much as I find your writing entertaining Liz, you HAVE patronised & insulted people living in that area. I'm afraid that you took your 'metropolitan air of superiority' with you when you left London for Exmoor- and it really gets up the noses of local people. I know- when I moved out from Islington to an Essex town, I too probably had that same insufferable air..but you quickly learn that non-Londoners are just as clever/sophisticated/educated as any Hoxtonian.. it's just that they don't have the tube or 24/7 convenience stores- which takes a lot of getting used to..
- Ex-Londoner-Too, Essex, 13/10/2009 17:25
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From bullets to eggs, what is the next form of armament one wonders? Sponge cakes!
- Frank, Home Counties, England., 13/10/2009 17:25
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Best zip it Liz and head back to Metroland.
- Ted, London, 13/10/2009 17:25
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"Best zip it Liz and head back to Metroland."
No, stay where you are, dear.
*signed* Everyone in Metroland
- Tom, London, UK, 13/10/2009 17:25
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