Don't Vote Labour Again (Part 10)

Dawn Butler (again)

Having recently attracted censure and ridicule with what appeared to be a black supremacist poem, Butler zeroed in on the Tory leadership candidate, Kemi Badenoch. You see, Badenoch is one of those persons of colour bereft of a leftist worldview, and who subsequently are supposed race traitors, merely vassals for 'whiteness'. The woke left are therefore justified (as they see it) in attacking such figures on racial grounds. The morning before Badenoch won the contest, Butler reposted a bizarre Tweet by 'Nels Abbey' which read:

Today the most prominent member of white supremacy's Black collaborator class (in Britain) is likely to be made leader of the Conservative Party. Here are some handy tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (i.e white supremacy in Blackface)

Following this was a list of paranoid instructions for black and brown identitarians to avoid being 'gaslit', arrested or otherwise persecuted by Whitey; who was sure to use Badenoch's victory as a pretext for more of his dastardly work. This included avoiding falling foul of a police force that cannot "understand Black & Brown intra-communal language or forms of critique, satire or compliment". In English, this means calling black politicians "coconut, Uncle Tom, Aunt Kemi, house negro, choc ice, etc".  

We need not identify why this is perverse. It clearly is, to all right-minded people. Obviously if the Tory Party were really white supremacist, it would not have a Nigerian-born black woman in charge of it. It just wouldn't, even as a tactic. It is a case of 'damned if they do, damned if they don't'. If an establishment organisation doesn't have prominent black people it is labelled as racist, and if it *does* have prominent black people, then guess what? - it's also racist. Meanwhile what these lunatics are proffering is their own form of racism, just as virulent and irrational as that of any neo-Nazi.  

In the ensuing outrage, Butler subsequently undid her repost. Starmer has been called to finally remove the whip, and pull the plug on the political career of this utter liability. Whether he has the guts is debateable. Because of this unhealthy climate we now live in, if you remove someone of a certain colour, even if they appear to be a racist, then that itself is deemed racist.

We saw this with Diane Abbott. Her offence was not as serious as Butler's, and arguably she should not have lost the whip over it. However, Starmer did not follow through and deselect her. After significant pressure, couched in the terms of 'how can you fire the first black MP?', he restored the whip at the eleventh hour (on May 28th) and announced she could stand for the candidacy (on May 31st). On June 2nd her CLP signed off on this and she officially became the candidate. See also the reinstatement of Rupa Huq, who lost the whip over saying (at the 2022 party conference, no less) that Kwasi Kwarteng was "superficially a black man". By this she meant he was not really black, because of the way he spoke and the politics he espoused. Huq was given the whip back after six months and was later re-elected as the MP. Would the same not happen with Butler?

It would of course be strategically useful for us if Labour were to keep her in. It would create a huge amount of bad publicity (add it to the slate) and a festering problem. Even so, one hopes Butler will be fired over this. Because this person, with her low intelligence, nastiness and apparent racism, should not be a legislator in our national Parliament.

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