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Jungle drums and the politics of hate
By Richard Littlejohn
Labour frontbencher Sadiq Khan should be thoroughly ashamed of his despicable, though utterly predictable, *attack on David Cameron.
Far from bolstering the Far Right, the Prime Minister has commendably reclaimed the debate about state-*sponsored multiculturalism. His speech was measured and not in the slightest way inflammatory.
For too long, anyone who has questioned this pernicious doctrine has been smeared as ‘racist’. Labour spent a decade and a half trashing those who expressed *concerns about unlimited immigration and the refusal of some ethnic groups to integrate into British society.
And as a consequence, decent people found themselves smeared as extremists and a minority regrettably sought refuge in the arms of the BNP.
Some of those same people are now *flirting with the street thugs of the English Defence League. It’s because they feel they have nowhere else to go
But be under no illusion, Nick Griffin is the [Poor language removed] son of Jack Straw and every other Left-wing politician who has consistently tried to close down debate on this sensitive subject and routinely rubbished their opponents as racists and ‘Little Englanders’.
Falsely accusing someone of racism is as repellent as racism itself. But Khan will keep his job.
You can hurl the most vile smears at anyone these days, provided you insert the word ‘Tory’.
Take the case of the Conservative MP Paul Maynard, who suffers from cerebral palsy and was cruelly mocked by Labour members in the Commons.
Can you begin to imagine the reaction if some Conservatives had abused a disabled Labour MP?
They’ll get away with it, though, because he’s a ‘Tory’, so deserves all the contempt he gets. If the lads from Top Gear had insulted Tories instead of Mexicans they would have been hailed as heroes by the Left.
Most of the real hatred and bitterness in Britain comes from those who noisily *proclaim their own ‘tolerance’ and are quickest to take offence at any real or *perceived slight. After ‘homophobe’, ‘Islamophobe’, ‘sexist’ and ‘racist’, ‘Tory’ is their favourite slur.
Last week a moderate students’ union leader in Leeds was subjected to a barrage of abuse from demonstrators who called him ‘Tory Jew scum’ — despite him being neither Jewish nor a Conservative.
But like ‘Tory’, ‘Jew’ is now an acceptable insult on the Left. So virulent is their hatred of Israel that all Jews are *considered fair game.
As I exposed in a TV documentary a couple of years ago, the worrying rise in anti-semitism in Britain stems from an unholy alliance between the fascist Left and *militant Islam.
If these protesters had been screaming ‘Muslim scum’ there would have been a whole host of arrests, questions in the House and a Panorama special on the BBC.
You might expect the Labour leader to have a view on this. Yet Ed Miliband, who is himself Jewish, has stayed silent. His energies are employed in denouncing the wicked ‘Tory cuts’. There’s an entire industry devoted to seeking out offence and persecuting people for inoffensive remarks.
In Wiltshire, a health watchdog has had its funding withdrawn because its chairman was overheard referring to ‘jungle drums’ at a *public meeting in a local scout hut.
Mrs Anna Farquhar, aged 70, was using the expression to describe gossip, in much the same way as others might have said ‘the grapevine’. But she was immediately branded a racist by a humourless fanatic called Sonia Carr, who describes herself as a member of the Wiltshire Racial Equality Council.
The ensuing row has rumbled on for six months, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds.
In the process, a blameless pillar of the community has had her * *reputation dragged through the mud in the most *disgusting fashion.
Mrs Farquhar has devoted her life to public good works and is a former chief executive of both the Citizen’s Advice Bureau and the St John Ambulance. Colleagues say she doesn’t have a racist bone in her body. Yet she has been libelled as a racist by a ‘diversity’ commissar paid out of the public purse.
Presumably, if she’d said ‘bush *telegraph’ instead of ‘jungle drums’ she would have been attacked for insulting Aborigines.
What unites these seemingly different examples of the Prime Minister, a disabled Tory MP, the students’ leader and the lady from the Wiltshire health watchdog is that all are victims of modern-day, Left-wing witch-hunts.
We live in an age when all language is monitored as closely as it was in Communist East Germany and careers are ruined at the drop of a so-called ‘offensive’ remark. Yet the self-appointed moral guardians of the Left believe they have a divine right to hurl whatever slanders they like provided they simultaneously proclaim their own goodness.
So it’s OK to monster ‘Tories’ and ‘Jews’ and make false, hurtful *allegations of ‘racism’ against a thoroughly decent and selfless 70-year-old woman just as long as your heart is in the right place.
While the Prime Minister is big enough and ugly enough to handle the rough and tumble of political abuse, Mrs Farquhar has had her life turned upside down.
There will be no sanction against Sadiq Khan, or those Labour MPs who mocked Paul Maynard’s *disability. The demonstrators who called the student leader ‘Tory Jew scum’ will not be prosecuted.
And the smearmonger from the Wiltshire Racial Equality Council will not be forced to apologise and will continue to seek out racism where none exists.
No doubt Sonia Carr considers Mrs Farquhar a symbol of ‘old’ Britain and therefore a perfectly legitimate target for vilification. She’s probably also suspected of voting Tory.
By Richard Littlejohn
Labour frontbencher Sadiq Khan should be thoroughly ashamed of his despicable, though utterly predictable, *attack on David Cameron.
Far from bolstering the Far Right, the Prime Minister has commendably reclaimed the debate about state-*sponsored multiculturalism. His speech was measured and not in the slightest way inflammatory.
For too long, anyone who has questioned this pernicious doctrine has been smeared as ‘racist’. Labour spent a decade and a half trashing those who expressed *concerns about unlimited immigration and the refusal of some ethnic groups to integrate into British society.
And as a consequence, decent people found themselves smeared as extremists and a minority regrettably sought refuge in the arms of the BNP.
Some of those same people are now *flirting with the street thugs of the English Defence League. It’s because they feel they have nowhere else to go
But be under no illusion, Nick Griffin is the [Poor language removed] son of Jack Straw and every other Left-wing politician who has consistently tried to close down debate on this sensitive subject and routinely rubbished their opponents as racists and ‘Little Englanders’.
Falsely accusing someone of racism is as repellent as racism itself. But Khan will keep his job.
You can hurl the most vile smears at anyone these days, provided you insert the word ‘Tory’.
Take the case of the Conservative MP Paul Maynard, who suffers from cerebral palsy and was cruelly mocked by Labour members in the Commons.
Can you begin to imagine the reaction if some Conservatives had abused a disabled Labour MP?
They’ll get away with it, though, because he’s a ‘Tory’, so deserves all the contempt he gets. If the lads from Top Gear had insulted Tories instead of Mexicans they would have been hailed as heroes by the Left.
Most of the real hatred and bitterness in Britain comes from those who noisily *proclaim their own ‘tolerance’ and are quickest to take offence at any real or *perceived slight. After ‘homophobe’, ‘Islamophobe’, ‘sexist’ and ‘racist’, ‘Tory’ is their favourite slur.
Last week a moderate students’ union leader in Leeds was subjected to a barrage of abuse from demonstrators who called him ‘Tory Jew scum’ — despite him being neither Jewish nor a Conservative.
But like ‘Tory’, ‘Jew’ is now an acceptable insult on the Left. So virulent is their hatred of Israel that all Jews are *considered fair game.
As I exposed in a TV documentary a couple of years ago, the worrying rise in anti-semitism in Britain stems from an unholy alliance between the fascist Left and *militant Islam.
If these protesters had been screaming ‘Muslim scum’ there would have been a whole host of arrests, questions in the House and a Panorama special on the BBC.
You might expect the Labour leader to have a view on this. Yet Ed Miliband, who is himself Jewish, has stayed silent. His energies are employed in denouncing the wicked ‘Tory cuts’. There’s an entire industry devoted to seeking out offence and persecuting people for inoffensive remarks.
In Wiltshire, a health watchdog has had its funding withdrawn because its chairman was overheard referring to ‘jungle drums’ at a *public meeting in a local scout hut.
Mrs Anna Farquhar, aged 70, was using the expression to describe gossip, in much the same way as others might have said ‘the grapevine’. But she was immediately branded a racist by a humourless fanatic called Sonia Carr, who describes herself as a member of the Wiltshire Racial Equality Council.
The ensuing row has rumbled on for six months, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds.
In the process, a blameless pillar of the community has had her * *reputation dragged through the mud in the most *disgusting fashion.
Mrs Farquhar has devoted her life to public good works and is a former chief executive of both the Citizen’s Advice Bureau and the St John Ambulance. Colleagues say she doesn’t have a racist bone in her body. Yet she has been libelled as a racist by a ‘diversity’ commissar paid out of the public purse.
Presumably, if she’d said ‘bush *telegraph’ instead of ‘jungle drums’ she would have been attacked for insulting Aborigines.
What unites these seemingly different examples of the Prime Minister, a disabled Tory MP, the students’ leader and the lady from the Wiltshire health watchdog is that all are victims of modern-day, Left-wing witch-hunts.
We live in an age when all language is monitored as closely as it was in Communist East Germany and careers are ruined at the drop of a so-called ‘offensive’ remark. Yet the self-appointed moral guardians of the Left believe they have a divine right to hurl whatever slanders they like provided they simultaneously proclaim their own goodness.
So it’s OK to monster ‘Tories’ and ‘Jews’ and make false, hurtful *allegations of ‘racism’ against a thoroughly decent and selfless 70-year-old woman just as long as your heart is in the right place.
While the Prime Minister is big enough and ugly enough to handle the rough and tumble of political abuse, Mrs Farquhar has had her life turned upside down.
There will be no sanction against Sadiq Khan, or those Labour MPs who mocked Paul Maynard’s *disability. The demonstrators who called the student leader ‘Tory Jew scum’ will not be prosecuted.
And the smearmonger from the Wiltshire Racial Equality Council will not be forced to apologise and will continue to seek out racism where none exists.
No doubt Sonia Carr considers Mrs Farquhar a symbol of ‘old’ Britain and therefore a perfectly legitimate target for vilification. She’s probably also suspected of voting Tory.
