MP’s fury at ‘woke’ Labour message
LABOUR’S decision to put out a message celebrating a “Transgender Day of Visibility” on Easter Sunday provoked anger yesterday.
Tory MP Brendan Clarke-Smith described Sir Keir Starmer’s party as “clowns” for the online post marking the woke event on the holiest day in the Christian calendar.
Meanwhile Canterbury Cathedral chose to have the Lord’s Prayer in Urdu in another move to push diversity. It came as Labour posted on X, formerly Twitter: “Today, on Trans Day of Visibility, and always, Labour stands with trans people.”
Mr Clarke-Smith said: “It’s on us to give people a reason to vote for a Conservative Government and not simply argue, ‘well, the alternative is a lot worse’. But the prospect of these clowns running this country should fill any sensible person with absolute horror. We can’t let it happen.” Mr Clarke-Smith’s attack is a sign of a brutal general election campaign ahead, which could focus on cultural and woke issues.
His fury was not just directed at Labour – he also blasted his local vicar in Nottinghamshire. The Revd Nicky Skipworth, of All Saints’ Church in Harworth and Bircotes in Bassetlaw, posted on Saturday: “Tomorrow is Easter Day but it is also Transgender Day of Visibility.
“Being visible may be the last thing a trans person wants, so great is the risk of public humiliation and worse, but if you are, or know someone who is trans, we want you to know your special day won’t be forgotten.
“Could it be that the two celebrations go better together than many think?””
Mr Clarke-Smith told the Express: “Absolutely crazy stuff. You’d have thought Easter Day of all days they would leave this nonsense for a bit.”
Dominic Cummings, former chief of staff to ex-PM Boris Johnson, also spoke out and described transgender ideology as “deluded”.
Mr Cummings posted: “My message of hope on Trans Day of Visibility: ‘trans’ does not exist, the sex you were born with is your sex, calling yourself something else is self-delusional words infinitely weaker than biology and evolution.”
The row came after Mr ClarkeSmith’s former party colleague Lee Anderson, and one-time deputy Tory chairman who has defected to Reform UK, wrote for Express.co. uk that politicians needed to remember that Britain “is a Christian country.”