We’ll keep the Redneck flag flying here

LABOUR’S disgusting, patronising condemnation of the Conservatives’ ‘Uncle Tom’ tendency in the new Cabinet is nothing new. The Left have always thought that they should own the votes and loyalty of black and minority ethnic citizens (BAME) — not just here, but the United States, too.

Welfare programmes and social housing are designed deliberately to keep people in their place, beholden to their benevolent betters.

Randy Newman nailed it as long ago as 1974 in his biting satirical song Rednecks, which you’ll never hear on the radio because of its repeated use of the unsavoury n-word. It centred on Northern ‘liberals’ sneering at racist Southerners and boasting about how they had freed African Americans from their slavery chains. Yes, Newman wrote, they’re ‘free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City’ and ‘free to be put in a cage on the South Side of Chicago, and the West Side . . .’ going on to list notorious U.S. welfare ghettoes.

That’s how the Labour Left think of black and ethnic minority citizens in Britain. They despise as traitors anyone of immigrant heritage who would ever vote Tory, let alone serve in a Conservative government.

They’re as racist in their own way as any Redneck.