Busy anti-circumcision Left ‘activists’ UK Uncut last night tried to protest against Bono at Glastonbury!

An event replete with (in?) delicious post-modern irony. The more so when U2 ‘security guards’ pounded in to seize and destroy the pretty protest balloon. Leftists! Defend private property!

Readers recall my one and only encounter with the absurd Bono:

Finally, the best part of three hours late, they arrived!

In the tight formation of a Wedge of Celebs, surrounded by heaving media elbowing everyone out of the way. The ceremony itself was a brief farce. Pavarotti did not sing a note. Nor did Bono. If either of them even said a word it was at best perfunctory. They showed no interest in watching the performances of the Bosnian children who had rehearsed for weeks. 

Basically, their sheer self-indulgent discourtesy after keeping so many people waiting for so long was quite remarkable.

After a few speeches by others they were off in their media scrum, back to the helicopter. Mission accomplished.

But what of the protest itself?

UK Uncut were objecting to the fact that Irish mega-rich Bono has organised his affairs to avoid paying some tax to the Irish tax authorities.

Think about it. What a narrow, immature, chauvinistic and crudely conservative demand they are making.

What is the principle they are citing to demand that Bono pays more tax in Ireland?

Some sort of mystic Irish essentialism? A neo-Eurosceptic insistence that EU principles on free movement of capital are all wrong? The communist/fascist idea that the individual owes his loyalty and his mind to the masses, but only to those masses with DNA similar to his? (Probably that last one – Ed.)

In any case, we now behold the Irish government reduced to grovelling to Brussels because of the greedy and utterly stupid behaviour by part of the Irish elite. When the EU tries to assemble the vast loans needed to help Ireland and the feckless tax-avoiding Greeks out from the hole they dug for themselves, that European taxpayers’ money includes some of Bono’s  wealth taxed outside Ireland!

In short, both UK Uncut and Bono are ridiculous phonies.

So much for celebrity diplomacy.