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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