Tory rebel: I’m not sexist but these women…
Meet Tory ‘rebel’ Sir Jeremy Bagge. He is against Conservative Party leader David Cameron pushing his own preferred candidates into a local seat.
Today, in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he is reported as saying:
“I personally feel that Central Office are dictatorial. They have shoehorned us, they have deceived us, they have betrayed us.” Sir Jeremy pauses before declaring: “I think they need a boot up the backside, a b—– good kick to wake them up, to be perfectly honest.”
Sir Jeremy, a member of the association executive, said: “I’m going to be there on Monday night. I’m only given two minutes to speak but I will say my bit. I might make a complete b—– idiot of myself but I will have done my bit and not done a u-turn.”
That is in response to him and his band of rebels challenging the Cameron ‘A List’ candidate Elizabeth Truss.
In return he has been called ‘Turnip Taliban’. Apparently he’s quite proud of that name:
I have a turban actually. I went to Pakistan a few years ago, and when I read ‘Taliban Turnip’ I put my b—– hat on. I’m proud to be called that. I prefer to be called Taliban Turnip than Tory Toff.
Sounds good to us. But could his vendetta against Truss be motivated by sexism? Absolutely not, he says:
“Sorry, no, I have never said I’m anti-women. I have got absolutely nothing against women.
“Who cooks my lunch? Who cooks my dinner? How did my wonderful three children appear? Women, you can’t do without them. My god, take my wife.”
What does she do for a living? “What does she do? She looks after me. Looks after the children. Runs the house.”
Oh dear. Sometimes it’s hard not to feel sorry for Cameron when he has these people holding him hostage.
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A finer caricature of a Tory is seldom found.
NEVER feel sorry for Cameron!
Cameron knows what party he represents
It seems odd putting “…take my wife!” at the END of that sentence (I’m surprised he didn’t add “Please!”). That structuring appears to imply that he’s only just thought of her, and had somebody else in mind when talking about the cooking and the children. Does he have a harem or something?
The Tories haven’t changed a jot.
I hope he pays his wife well for her full-time job (I do not doubt “looking after” him is a full-time job, and a pretty demanding one.)
OMG, I thought this was a Private Eye-style caricature of a Tory until I googled him and realised he is REAL (splutters into pink lemonade). All I can say now is, thank God I emigrated to Australia.
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