"Angry of Tunbridge Wells"

[Pajama Girl]

An ABer used this phrase to describe a group of people as having an "angry of tunbridge wells" mentality.

What does that mean and why?

[chasbo]

It used to be the pseudonym at the end of a letter to the editor, (usually the The Times or The Guardian) when people were expressing disgust/alarm at some proposal/law change/illegal immigrants/single mothers or any subject they did not agree with. I'm unsure whether the editor substituted it or the writer asked for his/her name not be published.

[Quizmonster]

From the Wikipedia article on the town...
"Tunbridge Wells is traditionally associated with the prim middle classes, especially in the locution "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells". This phrase was apocryphally used to sign a letter to The Times and/or Daily Telegraph some time in the 1920s, and has remained in circulation because of its perceived aptness in describing the inhabitants of the town. Tunbridge Wells is often assumed to be a bastion of the middle classes and comfortably bourgeois."

[123paul]

Think of Daily Mail / Express readers & you wont go far wrong. Anyone with a small outlook on life.

Anti: gay, women, black, jew, single mothers, immigrants, people on benefits, trendy lefties, working class people, access to university education for plebs, loud music, video games, regional accents, etc etc.

Pro: Tory rule for ever, send em back, village greens, band stands, national service, short hair cuts, good healthy outdoor fun & games for children, capital punishment, bullying in schools/army, reduction in benefits, leaving the EU, etc etc

[Loosehead]

It's generally used to describe anyone who doesn't agree with the fashionable, anti British, trendy, right on Liberal elite who make a career out of rubbishing the sort's of people and society that created the cocoon of safety from which they are able to do so.

[Azimov]

I agree with the previous replies but would add that I think Steve Wright on his Radio One show back in the early eighties, did much to popularise the term by featuring a daily character, apparently calling in to complain about something or other in a comically angry voice.

I believe he was named "Mr Angry" and represented all those faceless correspondents who appear to have nothing better to do than call radio shows and write to newspapers complaining about everything under the sun.

[gazzawazza]

Yes, but Mr Angry was from Purley. Goodbye. Hello?