Oddball Tory peer Baroness Warsi is a strange case indeed. After being propelled to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2007 by then Tory leader Michael Howard, Warsi has rarely displayed anything in the way of conservative values. Quite the opposite, in fact. She behaves like a smug middle class leftist, while bizarrely maintaining the Tory whip.
Take this social media post from Sunday, in which she cheers on a far left activist who waved a placard depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts. The racially charged message got Marieha Hussain into legal trouble, albeit she was cleared of a racially aggravated public order offence last week.
Warsi celebrated Hussain's acquittal with her own coconut reference.
While it could be said that Warsi was merely defending a fellow Muslim woman using a (derogatory) term that is common place in her culture, the problem is more over who she is defending. Mariea Hussain, a teacher (quelle surprise?), had waved her hand drawn placard during a pro-Palestine march last November. These marches were dominated by the hard left. Why would a supposed Conservative peer get behind a far left Free Palestine marcher?
Is it racial solidarity?
While Warsi has frequently alluded to her Muslim background over the years, she is far from conservative when it comes to her faith, either. She does not wear a head covering and was forced to abandon a visit to Luton in 2009 when she was confronted by Muslim thugs who pelted her with eggs. During her single (failed) attempt to win a parliamentary seat in 2005, Warsi tried to appeal to the conservative values of Dewsbury's Muslim community by criticising Labour's repeal of Section 28, thus allowing homosexuality to be promoted in schools. However, four years later (within the space of a parliamentary term had she been elected), Warsi was on board with same sex marriage and in 2013 apologised for her 'homophobic' campaign by declaring that the Tories were 'on the wrong side of history' in regards to gay rights.
In 2016 she claimed to have abandoned the Leave campaign because of its 'xenophobia' and 'hateful rhetoric', but Leave campaigners not only questioned whether she had ever joined the campaign, but fellow Tory peer Lord Hannan said she had outrightly rejected an endorsement. Warsi went on to support a Remain vote.
Even when the Tory government lurched to the left during the Johnson/Sunak term, it was never woke enough for Warsi. She was a frequent critic of home secretaries Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, who were both coincidentally of part-Hindu descent. Warsi's hostility towards them was triggered by their posturing around controlling mass immigration, which she saw as a betrayal of their own ethnic background - hence her recent embrace of the 'coconut' insult.
She also lashed out recently at comments by Tory leadership contender Kemi Badenoch, which she described as 'appalling' and 'divisive'. Badenoch had claimed that Reform UK had won seats on the back of 'sectarian Islamism'.
Warsi's X account is a sequence of race baiting posts, bemoaning racism and Islamophobia, as if Britain is Hell on earth for someone of colour. As Britain's youngest peer, despite being the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, where is her sense of self awareness? If the Tories are so horrible, why hold onto the party whip? If Palestine concerns her more than Britain, why not join the Green Party or some other hideous far left outfit?
The truth is that Warsi has always been an opportunistic grifter who cannot contain her hostility towards Britain, probably stemming from some childhood trauma in which someone called her a 'Paki' one time or another. In many ways she is no better than fellow race baiters Diane Abbott or Dave Lammy, but at least they are in the right party.
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