The Left’s misogyny is revolting, but it won’t stop Liz
WINMATES are using hand sanitiser to brew hooch in jail. So that’s what to do with all those unused bottles under the kitchen sink . . .
HATEVER your opinion of Liz truss, one thing cannot be denied: hers is shaping up to be the most diverse Government this country has ever seen. a genuine reflection of Britain’s multicultural make-up, as well as its proud feminist history.
There’s just one problem: truss is a tory. and that, as far as those on the Left are concerned, is a big problem. Diversity and women’s rights? Sorry, Labour has the monopoly on those. that’s their territory. Or, at least, they like to think it is.
Even though, of course, Keir Starmer and his Shadow Cabinet can’t even define what it means to be a woman.
When it comes to minorities, they’re even worse. any person of colour who dares to espouse anything other than the standard first-year undergraduate social justice narrative about victimhood and prejudice had better have a very thick skin, because they’ll be mercilessly pilloried as traitors to their cause. Just ask Priti Patel or Kemi Badenoch.
Truth is, women, minorities, the young, the working classes: Labour thinks it owns them all. Despite the fact that their party is led by a white, affluent, middle-aged man.
The sense of entitlement is breathtaking. Not to mention the total absence of self-knowledge.
THAT’S why they constantly indulge in class warfare — even though Keir Starmer is an actual Knight of the realm.
And that’s why, even though the slightest criticism of anything Labour women such as angela rayner say or do is greeted with howls of sexism, their armies of keyboard warriors see nothing wrong with attacking their counterparts in the Conservative Party in openly misogynistic (and racist) terms.
‘Thick Lizzie’. ‘Mad Nads’ (Nadine Dorries). and I won’t even begin to describe what Priti has had to put up with. We spoke about it when I saw her in the summer. revolting.
When anything even approximating that sort of thing happens to a woman on the Left — as it did to rayner recently with all that stuff about her distracting Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs, Basic Instinct-style (even though she herself was overheard joking about it) — boy, does the Left kick up a fuss.
But, for some reason, it’s completely fine when the woman in question is a tory. take comedian Joe Lycett, who mock-applauded truss’s appearance on Laura Kuenssberg’s new Sunday show this week. Can you imagine the same thing happening to someone like Diane abbott? Of course not.
And that’s because as far as the progressive Left (by which I mean self- satisfied celebrities such as Lycett and the BBC producers who pander to them) is concerned, the normal rules of civilised behaviour don’t apply to certain groups.
Tory women, people of colour who defy their racial stereotyping: all beneath contempt as far as the Labour Party is concerned.
It all comes back to entitlement. Just as no party has a right to govern, no party has a right to take ownership of certain sectors of the electorate. the Conservatives have always understood this, and striven to be a broad church. Not so Labour.
Someone like truss — daughter of CND activists, comprehensive-educated, ambitious, determined, — ought, by rights, to be theirs. the fact she is not is something Labour ideologues find deeply confusing. and when bigots are confused, when their tiny, closed minds are challenged, they lash out. hence the torrent of misogynistic abuse now being hurled at our new Prime Minister.
I don’t doubt she has the stomach for it. truss has sat around my dinner table and let me assure you, she’s a tough cookie.
Whether her ideas and policies will withstand the many challenges of the months to come remains to be seen. But one thing’s for sure: no misogynistic bully is going to stop her.