Or in this case, Trevor Phillips.
Trevor Phillips, the former head of the equalities watchdog, has condemned Labour’s decision to suspend him from the party over alleged Islamophobia, while defending his view that the UK Muslim population is “different”.
Phillips, a pioneering anti-racism campaigner who previously chaired the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has been suspended from Labour pending an investigation and could be expelled from the party.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Phillips said he was surprised and dismayed at the move, and defended his comments about British Muslims.
There’s an old saying about long spoons when supping with the Devil. It would seem that Phillips didn’t take note. You cannot sate the beast. It will always come back for more. When it has destroyed its enemies, it will turn on its former allies. Phillips helped to create a monster. A monster that is now set to consume him.
I almost feel sorry for him, for I detect in his words an underlying sense of self-awareness frequently missing in the virulent politically correct intersectionalists. But as he has discovered, telling the truth in a time of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. A revolutionary act that cannot go unpunished.
Yup: another Trotsky meets his ice-pick.
The whole correct terminology for this or that minority merry go round is so ridiculously infantile. These are people who aspire to being trusted to run the country.
He’s made a career out of the race issue. I have no sympathy for him whatsoever but I am enjoying the left turning on itself.