Here’s something new. An actual quote, as it was spoked, from Jeremy Corbyn, with no embellishment, enhancement, improvement or abuse: (clear throat, ahem):

From Hillsborough, to the child sex abuse scandal, to Grenfell Tower – the pattern is consistent: working-class people’s voices are ignored.

How is that viewed as anything short of blatant politicising? Of completely hi-jacking three terrible tragedies and abusing them by making them part of his ‘class war’? Why does anyone listen to that tosser? Why has no-one complained? That he does not know all 98 people who died at Hillsboro’, nor the hundreds injured, some may have been doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs and thus exempt from his exclusively ‘working class’ sympathy. Similarly abused children are just plain fucking children. Doesn’t matter if they’re black, white, rich, poor or whatever antiquated adjectives he chooses to describe them by. They may have all been boy scouts. Christians. Arsenal fans. Irrelevant. They were children and the abusers were not all conservative MPs, or upper class anything or lower class something else.

Is he implying therefore that child abuse by ‘working people’ is somehow more acceptable? That if it had been Chelsea at Hillsboro’ instead of Liverpool that would have been better because they’re less ‘working class’? What does ‘working class’ even mean??? Does Bill Gates qualify? For his 98 hour weeks? The CEO of a footsie 100 company; does he/she (as if) not ‘work’?? If so then everyone is a ‘working person’ from a cleaner to banker. So why use the term at all. Might as well call them ‘human people’. Its unnecessary. Unless its intentionally prejudicial, of course. And used to imply that the death of any working ‘class’ person is always the fault of someone rich or the government. Whereas the death of rich people doesn’t matter. 

If I was a Hillsboro’ survivor/family member, (not normally any kind of ‘silent minority’) I’d be fuming that my tragedy has been stolen for out-of-context political gain. It was in fact, after about 16 public inquiries, to be found the fault of the police. And they are public sector working people. So what the fuck is that tosser on about????

Happy ranting

A xxxx