Angela Rayner And The Tory Scum

When the senior Labour politician Angela Rayner called Boris Johnson and his inner circle scum at last month’s Labour Party conference, she generated a certain amount of controversy. Blowback was limited because these remarks were made at a fringe meeting, and because she has a track record for this sort of thing. Last October she made a similar remark in a near empty House Of Commons debating chamber, at least that is what the Conservative MP Christopher Clarkson appears to have heard. Judge for yourself from this clip; Rayner was rebuked by the Speaker at any rate.

Whatever, her latest outburst led to another Conservative MP, Dehenna Davison, sporting a blue badge emblazoned with the legend TORY SCUM.

According to Mrs Rayner, Boris Johnson is “homophobic, misogynistic, absolutely vile”. And don’t forget racist. It has been suggested she was under the influence of alcohol when she made these remarks, but as that Pliny dude said back in the First Century AD: “In vino veritas”.

The lady herself has a different explanation; last week at the unveiling of a statue of Barbara Castle, she credited that senior Labour Party member as an inspiration, but what she doesn’t appear to realise is that homophobic, misogynistic and racist are all insults that were once used to describe not Eton-educated Tories like Boris Johnson but ordinary British working men.

Writing in The Manufacture Of Madness, Thomas Szasz pointed out: “In 1970, homosexuality was an illness so dangerous to the commonweal that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service was charged with excluding homosexuals from entering the country…Today, homosexuality is a normal life style; disapproving of it is a mental illness called ‘homophobia’”.

While most ordinary people, of both sexes, regarded male homosexuality as disgusting, they were prepared to live and let live, but homosexuality is still illegal in many African and Islamic countries. African politicians in particular are quite outspoken against it. In Britain and the West, the vast majority are now even more tolerant of it, but ordinary working people especially object to the “in your face” attitude of the homosexual lobby, and more so to the indoctrination of the young with the belief that all perverted sex is normal.

Regarding misogyny, Boris Johnson has been married twice and has bedded Heaven knows how many women, which tends to indicate that he doesn’t hate them all. If Angela Rayner sees misogyny everywhere, the cause is probably closer to home, like in her bathroom mirror.

As for racist, how many times must we hear that word? Again, since especially the 1960s and with the 1972 Ugandan Asian crisis, Britain has been flooded with unassimilable immigrants. Today, native (white) Britons are a minority in many places. Ordinary people had no say in this, so why shouldn’t they resent it? Such resentment isn’t restricted to Britain, or to whites. There are for example tens of thousands of Americans living and working in China. Foreigners from all over the place are welcome in China. As foreigners. But citizenship is rarely granted to them, and as one such foreigner was told by a native, even if you can speak and read our language fluently, “You will never be Chinese”.

Angela Rayner should bear all that in mind before she opens her big mouth to insult a Tory like Boris Johnson, or anyone else.