Post by northwestman on Mar 30, 2024 23:14:54 GMT 1
In February 2023 Sunak made Lee Anderson vice-chair. Anderson is a bewildered reactionary dimwit without a single accomplishment to his name, lacking in gravitas or common decency, whose notoriety rested solely on his near-Olympian levels of ignorance.
Sunak thought Anderson was a kind of “Red Wall” spirit animal. He represents the reactionary, tells-it-like-it-is pub bore who the Prime Minister imagines populates the kinds of constituencies that he’d never set foot in unless he had to. It’s drivel of course, but then Sunak has no personal experience of these voters. He simply responds to the caricature of them which exists in his mind.
Like Anderson, Gullis’ fame rests primarily on his explicit idiocy. People first took notice of him when videos of him during parliamentary debates went viral. They showed him braying and shouting, more akin to a zoo exhibit than a parliamentarian. He was about as far removed from any remotely respectable expectation of an MP as it is possible to imagine – a noise in place of words, a snarl in place of thought.
The most generous assessment of his intellectual contributions would be that they are non-existent, but it’s unduly favourable to concede it. In fact, they veer between the sub-normal and the dangerous.
He said reports about Covid deaths were a “sick obsession”, a statement for which he later apologised. He said Black Lives Matter was a “a Marxist organisation that wants to abolish the nuclear family”. He said that anyone who used the phrase “white privilege” should be reported to a counter-terror programme and that teachers who criticised the Conservative Party should be sacked. He described some of his own constituents as “savages” and “scumbags”.
But this is why Sunak gave him the position – not despite him being an idiot, but because of it. So the same feeble thought process takes hold once more: he can represent the “Red Wall” voters. He can reassure the right of the parliamentary party that they are being heard.
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