Everyone seems to be disgusted these days. Usually over the most trivial of matters.
Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe has been criticised for comparing the UK leaving the EU to “slaves” rising up “against their owners”.
She made the remarks during her maiden speech in the European Parliament on Thursday, which critics branded “disgusting” and “offensive”.
Labour MP David Lammy described her words as “ahistorical”.
Yes, well, that moron Lammy is best ignored. However, the usual suspects are out in force to display their virtue and it’s sickening. There are a couple of points I want to discuss here, but let’s start with the slavery aspect.
As is usual with the regressive left, slavery means the transatlantic slave trade where nasty white Europeans enslaved noble black people and shipped them to the Americas. What it doesn’t mean is the three hundred years during which Barbary pirates raided the southern coasts of Ireland and England, taking people to the slave markets in Africa. Where, let it be noted, that slavery is still being practised. But that’s their culture, or something, so it’s all okay.
Every society on the planet has dabbled in slavery and every society has suffered it, so when Ann Widdecombe talks of slaves rising up against their masters, my first thought is “I am Spartacus!” Or is that “I am Kirk Douglas!”? I can never quite remember.
My second point is this: Ann Widdecombe is a seasoned parliamentarian. She comes from a generation of orators who were used to using colourful language in the house to make a point. She was doing precisely this in the EU parliament. But the poor little snowflakes can’t cope with colourful language – and those that aren’t snowflakes are the nasty, venal scumbags who are deliberately conflating her words and misrepresenting them and stoking up the disgust for political purposes. Ann Widdecombe was using metaphor and allegory to illustrate her point – a valid point, I might add, for the EU is despicably undemocratic and that, frankly disgusts me.
If people really are so offended by her words, then all I can say is that they will get over it. Probably when they have matured into functioning adults. In the meantime, in my best BSM Williams’ voice: “Oh dear, how sad, never mind.”
Lammy is a silly little twat. I love ‘It ain’t half hot mum !’.
What’s the word that rhymes with “waves” in “Rule, Britannia!” ?
Indeed.
“Ann Widdecombe was using metaphor and allegory to illustrate her point”
So was Enoch Powell, and he has been unjustly vilified ever since.
Enoch was right?
Have you read the full text? It’s entirely trivial. Anyone getting worked up about needs to be called out as actually crazy.
Yes. I’m making exactly that point of course.
I’m just loving the part about her having made the green MEPs cry.
Is it that young Danish lass she made cry?
I presume you mean Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg the SWEDISH eco activist whose totally not a sock puppet with fetal alcohol syndrome…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg
No, not Greta, these people were MEPs and masquerading as adults.
It’s Kira Peter-Hansen. She’s a 21-year-old university student. She’s up against a powerful adversary in Ann Widdecombe. She really shouldn’t be there.
Ann Widdecombe is entering a battle of wits against an unarmed opponent.
Exceedingly well put, sir!
It is often said that “nasty white Europeans enslaved noble black people” however I believe that when the “nasty white people” arrived on the shores of Africa they trade their wares with Africans and Arabs who willing sold them in exchange. In other words the enslaving was done by nasty Africans and nasty Arabs, not by white Europeans!
(The Europeans then sold the slaves to Americans in exchange for tobacco and cotton and thus the ships were fully laden on all three legs of their voyage.)
I listened to her speech. Only two minutes or so. It was excellent.