In echoes of Jeremy Corbyn's 'kinder, gentler politics', Rachel Reeves and a sympathetic media have framed the heckling incident earlier this week as simply 'bad manners'. In an interview with
Channel 4's Helia Ebrahimi on Friday, the Chancellor was set up perfectly in order to repeat this mantra by way of turning it into an attack on Nigel Farage. The Reform leader had responded to the initial incident by declaring he would 'like to buy this man a pint'. Reeves refused to be drawn into a personal attack on Farage, but spoke about general courtesy, respect and civil debate over shouting and being 'aggressive'.
It's a bit rich coming from someone who takes part in a shouting and jeering contest every week in the House of Commons.
Watch the clip below (one minute watch)
It's all about taking the moral high ground with Labour at the moment, especially when it comes to the white working class patriots that the party despise. Keir Starmer used a recent attack on the Unite the Kingdom march to speak about 'our values', suggesting that the marchers were somehow a subhuman element that did not represent Britain. Reeves echoes this sentiment by referencing her upbringing and suggesting that flags do not maketh oneself a patriot. The way she spews the words 'flag in your van' is reminiscent and no different from Emily Thornberry's sneering social post about a 'white van man' during a by-election in 2014.
These university-educated snobs have become so detached from the working classes that their party was originally founded to represent. It's why they are so woefully ill-judged when faced with dissent, whether it be street hecklers, the Leave mandate or the rise of Reform UK. They keep making the same mistake - smearing the masses with their silly labels and then expressing horror when the masses double down. For many, there is no way back for Labour after years of sneering and contempt. As the party has long abandoned this demographic, how else are they to get attention other than scream and shout?
If you haven't seen the clip of the 'white van man' heckling Red Rachel on the petrol forecourt, it can be seen below. Technically, he wasn't a 'white van man', as he was driving a pickup truck, but the term 'white van man' is often used as a disparaging slur against working class people.
The man spoke for the nation, Red Rachel speaks only for her Fabian clique of bourgeois Marxists who absolutely do not 'love our country'.
