Gilliam is now a British citizen. (I suppose he is a dual citizen).
I feel a bit of sympathy for these Pythons (Cleese is another who has gotten in a bit of trouble for saying London was “no longer an English city”).
They made their hay being sarcastic, and funny, lefties, spoofing the crusty old-world British aristocracy - and now (though still being insufferable, though still funny, lefties), they are in the unenviable position of being persecuted for pointing out the (obvious) excesses that are the result of the success, in the cultural sphere, of the very leftism that they spent their lives championing.
Unintended consequences are a bitch. But then, adherence to a mathematically false* philosophy of life (leftism) has predictable consequences.
*Any philosophy the implementation of whcih results in 100+ MILLION deaths and near-universal poverty in every nation that has implemented it can rightly be called “mathematically false”.
The Pythons had their standards. They never attacked the Royal Family with the exception of Princess Margaret, but only because her personal life made her fair game in their view at that time.
If Princess Di or Fergie or the current royal horrors had lived as adults in the Pythons’ golden age, they would have been shredded unmercifully.
Python humor was IMO aimed at those in the British establishment who failed to live up to a then not yet obsolete ideal. WWI and WWII were much in living memory at that time, and it would not do to suggest that the enormous sacrifices made in those wars had been in vain.
The Pythons were on the Tory side of things and only pretended to be outrageous iconoclasts.