The Daily Mirror has an exclusive: “EXCLUSIVE: Farmer protest organiser was behind racist and homophobic posts online”
An organiser of this week’s Farmers’ protest in London wrote historic messages including racist and homophobic language online attacking Labour voters, it can be revealed.
“It can be revealed” – this looks like it’s going to be spicy.
Clive Bailye, one of the five farmers who organised the march in the capital, is founder of online community The Farming Forum.
But a Mirror investigation found Mr Bailye had posted a series of remarks using racist language, and disparaging remarks towards people with disabilities, the unemployed and LGBT people.
During the 2019 general election, Mr Bailye suggested “only a disabled, unemployed, black, LGBT, transgender, non tax paying, homeless, vegan immigrant in immediate need of NHS help” would vote for Labour.
I’m waiting for the part where Mr Bailye actually says that being a disabled, unemployed, black, LGBT, transgender, non tax paying, homeless, vegan immigrant in immediate need of NHS help is bad. Unless the Mirror thinks that voting Labour is bad?
In other disparaging comments about race, gender, religion, and disabled people, Mr Bailye suggested “the way to get something done is to claim […] you tripped an suffered injury […] maybe throw in something about being a disabled, transsexual, black, muslim, vegan with learning difficulties while your at it”.
Again, that is an assertion about how claiming to be any of those things gets more favourable treatment, not an actual insult to the groups concerned.
In more recent posts, this summer – in the fall out of riots across England – Mr Bailye posted asking whether “if accused of being far right / anti immigrant hate speech in court do we think saying “i’m on the spectrum” would get you off ?”.
Well, would it? The question is not unreasonable. The official guidelines of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales on sentencing offenders with mental disorders, developmental disorders, or neurological impairments state that the fact that an offender has such a condition should always be considered by the court, although it will not necessarily have an impact on sentencing. It is certainly commonplace for people in the dock to put forward their autism as a mitigating factor.
He also repeated a conspiracy theory in the same post, saying “We have two tier law in this country it seems”.
If belief in the existence of “two-tier law” in the UK is a conspiracy theory, it is one that half the country shares.
Does the Mirror ( which constituency historically might be expected to be working class Labour supporters ) think those sentiments are not largely held by Labour voters outside Islington ?
Redundancy much?
I suppose it is only a matter of time before Leftists who support the grinding down of private owners of property – farmers in this case – will seek to smear them as holding horrible views.
This may sound like hyperbole, but there is more than a touch of 1930s Soviet propoganda vis the kulaks in Ukraine about the way that Starmer, Rachel from the Accounts Dept and the rest of these people think about farmers, or indeed anyone who has had the sense to see through their pound-shop Marxian bullshit.
Instead of forced labour camps such as the gulag, you get little chats by Essex Police.
Oddly enough, I had a similar thought just yesterday, attacking farmers, reducing food production, in its modern iteration; ‘re-wilding’, ‘set aside’, ‘solar installations on farm land’, new build estates on prime farm land, so on and so forth, will have a similar effect to the collectivisation of the farms in the Ukraine in the ’30s. Reduced domestic food production.
John McTernan is reported to have said that Labour now has the opportunity to ‘do to the Farmers, what Thatcher did to the miners …’ – In a country that already imports 40% of its food supply, I’d hardly describe such sentiments as ‘constructive’.