‘It’ll quickly be final orders for the opportunistic pub bore Anderson’
You in all probability first heard of Lee Anderson when he declared he couldn’t bear to observe England within the 2021 Euros as a result of its gamers had been taking the knee.
Although it might have been the earlier month when he sought notoriety by asserting he had ripped up his TV licence as a result of the BBC was “rotten”. Or perhaps it was when he was filmed in 2019 telling a mate whose help he was about to ask for: “Make out you know who I am but not that you’re a friend”.
But again to him cancelling himself from watching his “beloved England” as a result of the gamers had been providing a gesture of solidarity with black colleagues who suffered from racism. Or as Anderson noticed it: “Supporting a political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our way of life.”
Which was an early indicator of what he means as we speak when he says “I want my country back” regardless of his beloved Brexit supposedly doing simply that. The nation he desires again is a legendary post-war utopia the place we nonetheless have an Empire, hanging, conscription, bobbies on bicycles, the three Rs, imperial measures, ladies who know their place, no curry homes and the inhabitants is sort of totally made up of its indigenous folks.
The phrase is meant to make us imagine he takes a stand towards pro-Palestine marches and wokies flattening statues however, like Donald Trump, we all know precisely what he means. Taking the nation again to a time when it was overwhelmingly white. Anderson talks reverentially of his “political journey” like he was a Mandela or a Gandhi, when in six years he jumped from being a Labour councillor to a Tory MP to the poster boy for the most recent hard-right, single-issue anti-immigration social gathering Nigel Farage presides over.
A celebration he lately denigrated as “amateurs” with a “Poundshop” chief whom he would by no means be a part of. Where subsequent? National Action? This shouldn’t be the journey of a principled politician however of a hypocritical, opportunistic pub bore. A Six Bob Trump who thinks he’s a Man of the People when he’s a thin-skinned narcissist who completely seems to be like he’s about to self-combust with hate.
He’s one more embarrassment to Rishi Sunak who made him deputy social gathering chairman as a result of he naively thought he would woo Northern voters to the Tories. But then what would you count on from a public school-educated former Goldman Sachs banker who admitted that he had no working class mates rising up?
It was all the time possible that Sunak must take the whip off his token Northern Bloke and no shock it got here after a dumb and racist assertion that “Islamists” have management of London as a result of the Muslim mayor had given the capital to “his mates”.
Anderson says he drinks in Ashfield with actual working-class individuals who inform him he speaks their no-nonsense language. Well I drink in a dockers’ pub in Liverpool and I don’t know anybody in there who spouts Six Bob Trump’s nonsensical language or divisive ideas.
He says he doesn’t recognise his nation any extra and that there are numerous individuals who assume the identical. I reckon there are numerous extra who don’t recognise the legendary Britain he fantasises about for political acquire. Which is why his political journey will hopefully finish at a JobCentre come the following election.
