Mr Pike'One thing for certain wearing a skirt does not make you a woman.its clearly a bloke.Can someone remind me who the nasty party is'.Ironic really that all those relishing Widdicombe's murder, apart from the stupid woman on the BBC seem to be men eg Peter Tatchell and transgender Heather HerbertInterestingly no 'Me Too' women coming to her defence.Instead - 'Left-wing activist Daze Aghaji, (a woman) 26, a climate campaigner with strong ties with Extinction Rebellion, chose to dwell on political divides over condemning the act of barbaric violence and said - "a lot of people won't be grieving" on the BBC's Politics Live show'.Aghaji, a climate activist who describes herself as a 'folklorist, herbalist and forager', elsewhere in the programme refused to back changing the law to deport Shabir Ahmed - the leader of the Rochdale grooming gang recently released from prison.Is she on the right side of history over these incidents or at least in tune with the majority of the British people ?And of course another man seemed to condone Widdicombe's murder.'Former Scottish Green election candidate is being probed after saying they hoped Anne Widdecombe experienced an "extremely painful death". Transgender Heather Herbert made the comments after news of the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant's death emerged during the week.And you don't need telling who the 'nasty Party' is.It's Labour or at least its extremist members who claim so self-righteously to act and speak on behalf of persecuted minorities' because that is 'the foundation of their political philosophy'.Therefore cannot be the 'Nasty Party'.(However Catholic conservative spinsters need not apply for support).Very perceptive analysis of the political reaction to Widdicmbe's murder by Daniel Hannan in MoL."Here's why the Left revel in the deaths of political opponents in a way Right-wing people never would..."https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15974925/DANIEL-HANNAN-Left-revel-deaths-Ann-Widdecombe-political-opponents-way-Right-wing.htmlSome extracts -'What, though, prompted her (HIM - Heather Herbert) to react in such an inhuman way? I don't use the word 'inhuman' lightly. There are moments that prompt us, as social primates, to react in natural ways. We smile at contented babies. We feel a warm glow when people get married. We respond with due solemnity to news of a death. 'Send not to know for whom the bell tolls' and all that'.'What makes some people respond so differently to the rest of us? And why does it tend to come from one side of the political spectrum?'Yes, you can find unpleasant people espousing all manner of views, but the glorying in the death of opponents is asymmetric'.'Recall the delirium with which the hard-Left greeted the death of Margaret Thatcher. Trade unions organised festivals. Leftist agitators sold T-shirts declaring 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!''Why the political one-sidedness? Why is it unimaginable – literally unimaginable – that Rightists will respond to the eventual and (I hope) distant deaths of, say, Gordon Brown or Sir Keir Starmer, as Leftists did to that of Margaret Thatcher?''The short answer was given by the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton. Conservatives could be friends with socialists, he said, because they simply thought they were mistaken. But socialists struggled to reciprocate, because they thought conservatives were evil.'To find an answer, we must plunge into the field of behavioural psychology. Are Leftist brains wired differently from Rightist brains? Does their wiring enable the paradox whereby people who think of themselves as empathetic and inclusive struggle to extend those feelings to their political opponents'?'In short, yes. Your political opinions are a lot more emotional than you like to imagine. Two people can look at the same event in very different ways because they are unconsciously primed to see what they want.Person A sees a brave policeman defending himself from a criminal; person B sees a racist copper abusing his powers'.'If I know enough about where you stand on a series of apparently unrelated issues – tax, immigration, abortion – I can make a pretty accurate guess as to whether you will be A or B. Psychologists call it social intuitionism'.What makes Left and Right-wing brains different is that, while conservatives let a series of different intuitions inform their views – concerns for freedom, fairness, sanctity, loyalty and so on – Leftists are driven overwhelmingly by just one, namely sympathy with the underdog.For them, society is a hierarchical pyramid, and all that matters is backing the group designated as oppressed'.It leads them into all sorts of apparent contradictions. They might favour indigenous rights in Canada or New Zealand while recoiling at the suggestion that ethnic Britons have an equivalent prior claim to the UK. And it causes them real difficulties in understanding the other side'.Boiled down, the Left-wing take on the world goes something like this: 'I am a good person. I care about poor people, minorities and underdogs. You disagree with me, so you must dislike all these groups, which makes you a bad person.'Still, I keep being struck by one thought. Margaret Thatcher won three elections. Ann Widdecombe was the best known and most popular woman in politics in more recent times.If they really were as terrible as their detractors claim, what would that say about the country as a whole? Answer me that one, comrades'.
John Hawkes ● 37d