After several years
of trying his damnedest to get expelled, which led instead to his being promoted
to posts within the governing party, Tory extremist Lee Anderson has finally managed
to get the Tory whips to act against him for his astonishing, not to say
ridiculous, claim that ‘Islamists’ have taken control of Sadiq Khan, and
through him of the imperial capital itself. This has been adjudged to be one
unhinged comment too far. Presumably, his efforts to date have been regarded as
merely obnoxious, something which has become de rigueur in his party
since it has been largely infiltrated and taken over by Farageists.
In response, the man
himself said
that he fully understood that “…they had no option but to suspend the whip…”,
but refused to retract or apologise for his remarks. It’s probably just the
excuse he’s been looking for to lead what he probably hopes will be a mass exit
from the Official Farageists of the Tory Party towards the Provisionals of Reform.
In what would, in any rational universe, be seen as a not-very-funny attempt at self-parody, but which appears
to be instead a deadly serious lack of self-awareness, he said that he would “continue
to support the Government’s efforts to call out extremism in all its forms”.
‘All’ its forms? It would be nice to be
able to believe that he is the only one who sees any political view which
diverges from his own as being ‘extremist’, but it seems to be becoming the
norm for his erstwhile colleagues, given the number of times he’s made extremist
statements with the apparent consent and support of his now ex-party’s leader.
And despite her own unhinged comments this week about the huge leftist
conspiracy being driven apparently by the World Economic Forum, The Financial
Times, and the Economist amongst others, Truss has apparently managed not to
cross the line between being merely mad and being expellable. Still, given
that the man making the decisions on who to suspend and for what, the Chief Whip,
has previously
suggested that the RSPB is a terrorist organisation, it’s difficult for anyone
to know where the line actually is. If there even is one any more.
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