James Blunt has laid into Chris Bryant after the MP said the music industry is full of too many poshos like the Beautiful singer.
Forty-year-old JB dubbed the Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport a “wazzock”, which is not a word anyone says nearly enough anymore.
James, who is known for being pretty excellent and well, blunt, on Twitter, slammed Shadow Minister after he flagged JB as one of several artists from privileged backgrounds who dominate the arts.
In response, James dubbed the MP a “classist gimp” and a “prejudiced wazzock”, which if anything, is a great selection of words, even if you don’t particularly agree with them.
Writing an open letter, James claimed his private school background actually worked against him, with music industry bods accusing him of being “too posh”.
James added: "[Bryant’s] populist, envy-based, vote-hunting ideas which make our country crap, far more than me and my s**t songs, and my plummy accent".
In his letter, James wrote: "Dear Chris Bryant MP, You classist gimp. I happened to go to a boarding school. No-one helped me at boarding school to get into the music business.
"Perhaps it protected me from your kind of narrow-minded, self-defeating, lead-us-to-a-dead-end, remove-the-'G'-from-'GB' thinking, which is to look at others' success and say, 'It's not fair'."
The row sparked off after Bryant told The Guardian: "I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for Best Actor], but we can't just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk.
"Where are the Albert Finneys and the Glenda Jacksons? They came through a meritocratic system. But it wasn't just that. It was also that the writers were writing stuff for them.
"So is the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, doing that kind of gritty drama, which reflects [the country] more? We can't just have Downton programming ad infinitum and think that just because we've got some people in the servants' hall, somehow or other we've done our duty by gritty drama."
Blunt also joked on Twitter at the suggestion he was dominating the arts, saying: “Really? I thought we'd got rid of me years ago.”
Chris Bryant has since replied to James’ comments and said “stop being so blooming precious”.
Well, there’s only one way to really settle this don’s Harry Hill glasses and massive shirt collar - “FIIIIIIIIIIGHT”