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Pete North • 17 June 2022

York Central MP is away with the fairies

Last night I attended a public meeting in York. I wasn’t expecting much being that it was hosted by Stand Up To Racism, featuring York Central MP, Rachael Maskell. I almost didn’t make it because I arrived a little early and called into the pub on the corner for a quick pint, and in the beer garden there was a merry Geordie fellow who started telling me about his time in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary which was a billion times more entertaining and interesting than anything a dimwit lefty MP has to say. Frankly, I wish I’d stayed where I was – and I’m sure Rachel Maskell does as well.

The meeting was pretty much as predicted, complete with an effeminate transvestite with a five o’clock shadow on the door clutching a bale full of Social Worker newspapers. The first speaker was a Covid-masked Rachael Maskell (nominative determinism?). Her speech was pretty much a recital of all the dim-witted leftist tropes about vulnerable and desperate refugees – along with the “safe and legal routes” drivel. She described the Rwanda policy as “fascism” and went on to compare recent events with the beginnings of Nazi Germany. She’s seriously is thick as a box of hammers.

She is opposed to the migrant reception facility at Linton-on-Ouse, likening it to an “open prison”, but argued that we should be looking to house them in “our communities” (where she doesn’t live). She remarked that she had other engagements that evening (hoping to slink off without being questioned), so naturally I didn’t wait until the end to ask her where all this surplus housing was. She didn’t have an answer and I didn’t expect her to.

Her idiocy stems from the central self-deceit that the dinghy arrivals are genuine refugees and trotted out some flimsy statistics to support her assertion. If you can convince yourself of that much, then all the rest of the idiocy flows naturally. That the dinghy arrivals are predominantly Muslim men of fighting age seems to have escaped her, along with all the reports of rape and child grooming.

As it happens, only nineteen affordable homes were built in York last year and there is no surplus of social housing, so ultimately she means “refugees” should be dumped on Bradford and Leeds, and we should house as many as want to come. That, essentially, is Labour’s policy.

This was met with nodding approval from the dozen or so white haired middle class retiree liberals but not so much the very working class people on the back row who stormed out with me after about twenty minutes. Maskell is no doubt telling her colleagues the meeting was gate-crashed by the “far right”.

But then Maskell has no reason to care what her working class constituents think. There can’t be many of those in central York. She can adopt juvenile open borders dogma and it’ll be well received by her student voter base. They who will leave York as soon as they graduate.

Frankly I’m surprised I even lasted twenty minutes before losing my rag. I certainly wasn’t going to make it through the full two hours of speakers. The look on Maskell’s face was quite entertaining though. I don’t think she’s used to oiks speaking out of turn in her presence. If, though, she thinks she can spout this airheaded dogma without being challenged then she’s in for a shock. Outside the cosy little left wing confirmation bubble, the anger is rising. Mine especially.

It has long been observed that the Labour party no longer represents the working class, and last night’s meeting was a perfect example of why. Maskell couldn’t be more out of touch and tone deaf, and exists in a fantasy world of her own making. That she’s in bed with Stand Up To Racism suggests she’s barely evolved from her sixth-form politics, like many of her Labour colleagues. If tonight convinced me of anything, it’s that the Tories, even on recent from, have a long way to go before they’re they’re as contemptible as Labour.

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