'Tories just try to whip up hatred against anybody who is different from them'

16 May 2023 , 21:26
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Ann Widdecombe made crass comment about families in poverty (Image: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)
Ann Widdecombe made crass comment about families in poverty (Image: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

Ignorant, uncaring and callous Tories and fellow right-wingers just don’t get the crippling cost of living crisis.

Take former Conservative Minister and MP Ann Widdecombe, who is presumably not personally short of money after appearing on Strictly and TV reality shows plus panto.

Lecturing hard-up families with far fewer pounds than her to ditch cheese sarnies they can no longer afford shows a frightening
lack of concern from the doyen of the Reform UK Party.

Paying bills is the number one concern of households yet many Tories betray their lack of interest by trying to whip up hatred against anybody who is different from them.

Rishi Sunak’s farming conference failing to produce a significant breakthrough is unsurprising when it was a PR stunt from the start.

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But neglected and abandoned families will have their revenge at the ballot box.

Gift of hope

The rabbi husband of a British Jewish woman murdered by a terrorist who gave permission for five of her organs to be donated – including to a Palestinian man – is an act of incredible kindness.

The embrace shared between Leo Dee and Arab Muslim carpenter Abu Radia, who has Lucy’s transplanted kidney, is deeply moving.

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Especially when the rabbi must endure the grief of losing not only his wife but his two daughters, Maia, 20, and 15-year-old Rina, who were also killed in the shooting.

This profound generosity gives us hope that a senseless conflict may one day be ended by wonderful people.

Sausage role

Having bouncers on the doors of a ­late-night Central London Greggs does sound a bit flakey.

But if it means customers in the Leicester Square area get their hands on a much-needed snack after a night out then why not?

At least it’s not another half-baked idea we usually get from the local council.

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