Left’s insults are creating a toxic climate
I see that Ed McConnell was eager to demonstrate his lefty liberal credentials once again by rubbishing Boris Johnson; describing him as the ‘worst
Prime Minister in recent history’.
Typical of the media, particularly here in the south, he demonstrates that he is completely out of tune with the thousands who voted for Boris Johnson in the so-called Red
Wall constituencies, because he connected with them in a way no other politician had ever done.
Furthermore, many of them are now extremely disappointed that he has been ousted, especially in the way it was done with a frenzy of media attacks andaLab/ LibDem/SNP cabal plotting to bring about his downfall.
He further demonstrates how out of touch he is with voters in the North and the Midlands by promoting Tom Tugendhat.
He is a remainer MP, who is still lukewarm about Brexit, even though his constituency voted to leave, so is never likely to make any sort of connection with Brexit supporters in the seats that the Conservatives would like to retain at the next general election.
Ed McConnell should ask himself why ‘woke’ has become so synonymous with derision.
If he cannot produce an answer,
I believe I can do it for him.
It is because ‘wokes’ almost invariably deliver their opinions as if they are fact, dismissing any alternative that doesn’t fit their narrative and with an arrogant and supercilious tone that suggests they regard themselves as of superior intellect to anyone who dares to disagree with them. For example, websites where the majority support Brexit are littered with abuse from people who remain (pun intended) opposed. Such abuse has gone far beyond ‘they didn’t know what they were voting for’.
For those imbued with the sense of their own self-importance, those who still support Brexit and wish to see its aims delivered are described as ‘ignorant loons’, ‘gammon’, or Brexit fanatic.
There are countless others, just as insulting.
Until ‘wokes’ are prepared to accept that people who do not share their views are equally entitled to express them without being ‘cancelled’ or denied a platform to speak, or subjected to vitriolic abuse, the toxic climate in which much debate now seems to take place will not improve, and that is sad.
Christopher Hudson-Gool