Hard to see how insulting key groups of voters helps LAB’s cause – but hey, the Gammon insulters don’t seem to care
The ‘gammon’ insult is fuelled by class hatred. It expresses the visceral contempt felt by bourgeois Corbynistas for people further down the social ladder. We now know how thoroughly Labour has been captured by a new elite.
Brendan O’Neill in @spectator https://t.co/DCGrYh5f8k
— spiked (@spikedonline) May 14, 2018
No, "gammon" is not a racist or a classist slur. https://t.co/mFropaEmgm pic.twitter.com/nc1bMNKfnt
— Owen Jones? (@OwenJones84) May 14, 2018
Remember, you can’t serve both god and gammon.
— Tim Stanley (@timothy_stanley) May 14, 2018