They can be colour blind when faced with someone prepared to be really vicious to other members of society that they like to feel superior to....plus they really like a certifiable nutter.
22 May 2024
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The Tories have had three (?) women leaders and a brown chap. Labour is an uninterrupted white sausage party.
There is most certainly, however, a tendency of bigots to really fall for ‘one of them’ when they are happy todo and say all the evil shit because they can convince themselves they aren’t bigots if there’s a brown person who also hates immigrants and equity and the likes. See, for example, Clarence Thomas… a dreadful man, but much loved because a black man pulling the ladder up on civil rights progression is just perfect for all those people who want to go back to the 50’s.
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Thatcher chosen by MPs, May didn’t go to a member vote, Truss was standing against the brown chap, Sunak didn’t go to a member vote. No challenge to my views on Tory party members there. (Also, because they got Thatcher, it probably ended any prejudice they had about women’s suitability to lead their party.)
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Yeah, that’s fair. I haven’t paid enough attention to their parade of idiots to recall how they all got the gig.. though obviously there is a bit of a second order effect here where MP’s have a mind to what the membership (who selects them) wants. Though I guess they also factor that in when it’s a problem because the membership mainly just wants Boris Fucking Johnson, and the MP’s probably think that’s a terrible idea.
Still, it’d be no surprise at all, to me, if the membership went all in on a brown lady if she could prove herself to be suitably awful.
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Should the Labour Party declare the current Tory leadership fight as a gift?
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Proved wrong then.
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I thought Bob would win too.
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I see that last night's performance of MacBeth at my old theatre - starring David Tennant - was cancelled last night due to cast illness.
Coincidence, I'm sure.
