Calling it "leftie multi-cultural crap," British-born Danny Boyle's Olympics opening film - featuring an homage to issues dear to the Left - has sparked outrage among British conservatives. Aidan Burley, a felled aide to the Transport Minister, added, ""The most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen -- more than Beijing, the capital of a communist state! Welfare tribute next?"
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party was quick to react. ""The opening ceremony has been a great showcase for this country. It's more proof Britain can deliver."
Burley, who sacked after it was discovered he attended a Nazi-themed stag party, was just one of millions of people who watched the opening ceremonial clip by the famous director which featured the now-famous lesbian kiss, the first on British television, from the long-running soap opera Brookside.
Boyle, whose film Slumdog Millionaire swept the Academy Awards in 2009, opined, "The sensibility of the show is very personal," he said. "A group of us have created it, but we had no agenda other than... values that we feel are true. Not everybody will love that but people will be able to recognise as being honest and truthful really. I felt that very strongly. There is no b(expletive) in it, and there is no point-making either."
Ironically, the short film was shown in many countries where homosexuality is punished up to and including death.
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