LABOUR DOUBLE STANDARDS? SURELY NOT!

A WEEK ago, Jeremy Corbyn and Dawn Butler, the Shadow Equalities Minister, posed for pictures with newly appointed members of Labour’s LgBT advisory group — one of them the mixed race transgender model Munroe Bergdorf.

now a series of Bergdorf’s tweets from 2010 have emerged, in one of which she (or rather he, as was then Bergdorf’s identity) told someone: ‘ How’s your barren womb? We all know your little secret … hairy lesbian.’

And another in which he expressed a desire to ‘gay-bash’ a certain individual.

Bergdorf has apologised but insisted: ‘Who i am now, is not who i was almost a decade ago when i wrote those tweets.’

That seems good enough for Dawn Butler. This is the same Dawn Butler who led Labour’s campaign to get Toby Young sacked as a board member of a government higher education regulator earlier this year, after it emerged that Young, the founder of a number of free schools in London, had in 2009 tweeted crude remarks about women’s breasts, among other regrettable observations.

‘The virulence of Mr Young’s misogyny’, said Butler, meant he should lose his position. And when he resigned, she denounced ‘Theresa May’s total lack of judgment in appointing him’.

now that one of her own advisers has been caught out by offensive tweets of similar vintage, Ms Butler has nothing bad to say about it. At least in Young’s case, the PM and the Education Department didn’t know about the offending nineyear-old tweets when he was appointed.

But Ms Butler must have known that last year Bergdorf was sacked by L’Oreal after she wrote on Facebook that ‘ALL white people’ are guilty of ‘racial violence’ and that the Suffragettes were ‘white supremacists’. (This was based on the model’s totally false assertion that only ‘white women’ got the right to vote in 1918.)

Dawn Butler must have been aware of this when she appointed Bergdorf, and should have known that her appointee wrote only last year that ‘gay male Tories are a special kind of d***head’. i can only conclude that Butler agrees with Bergdorf.

And that’s worse than hypocrisy.