If looks could kill: there’s no love lost between Liz Truss (centre) and Nicola Sturgeon (right).
Why is this permissible, as far as the UK’s Tory-supporting mass media are concerned…
Liz Truss: 'The best thing to do with Nicola Sturgeon is ignore her…she's an attention seeker.' pic.twitter.com/gU835FmlsK
— The Majority (@themajorityscot) August 1, 2022
… while this…
#bbclaurak – Is Liz Truss a friend or a foe?
Nicola Sturgeon – "I will try to work with her…. but I detest the Tories & everything they stand for.. "#Ridge pic.twitter.com/itwyms54rL
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) October 9, 2022
… is not?
It’s hypocrisy, isn’t it? Simple, rank hypocrisy.
Nadhim Zahawi led the charge against Sturgeon’s words. The Tory minister who last week had to apologise for the mess caused by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, said: “I think that language is really dangerous.” As dangerous as crashing the Pound and massively increasing the cost of borrowing?
The public have picked up on the nonsense in this response – and they’re not letting it pass:
Nicola Sturgeon was wrong for saying she “detests the Tories”.
What she was meant to say is she “detests the fucking Tory bastards”.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) October 9, 2022
Since when was the word 'detest' too hardcore for Tories?
When you support the politics of making the rich richer, the poor poorer, support the destruction of our services, corruption and hardship for ordinary folks, then consider being detested as getting off lightly.
— Damien Willey, Detester of Tories. (@KernowDamo) October 9, 2022
It’s not just acceptable but actually quite reasonable to detest people who are trying to trash the economy, the society we live in and the planet at the same time as destroying businesses, making people homeless and killing people through austerity and indifference to Covid.
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) October 9, 2022
Tory austerity kills 330,000
Media: tumbleweed
Nicola Sturgeon says she detests Tory politics
Media: This incivility is outrageous, it's vile, it's unacceptable, how very dare she?
— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) October 9, 2022
Detesting the Tories is not a sign of nastiness, as they are claiming. It’s the sentiment of a caring human being who cannot stand Tories loathing most people in this country.
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) October 9, 2022
Sorry but at this moment in time who does not detest the Tories? They’ve wrecked our country and show no sign of stopping.
— Jessica Simor KC (@JMPSimor) October 9, 2022
Man, who doesn’t despise these Tory’s.
— Douglas Henshall (@djhenshall) October 9, 2022
The verdict is clear: there cannot be one rule for Tories and another rule for everybody else.
If Nadhim Zahawi doesn’t want people to say they detest the Tories for what they have done to the UK then, firstly, his party should not have caused the harm that it has and, secondly, his prime minister should not have insulted the First Minister of Scotland.
But one supposes that is too much for his tiny Tory mind to comprehend.
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All the more ironic coming from bully-boy Zahawi who fiddled his expenses so that we paid to keep his gee-gees warm. Detest? That is surely not the Italian for “I’d string the bastards up from lampposts.”?
Detesting someone for their politics is absolutely acceptable. We CHOOSE our politcal opinions, we are not born with them. Detesting the politics of choosing to allow the old and poor to die in the name of profit seems normal, laudable even..
This seems to have started after a conversation Nicola talked about that appeared in the Guardian then quickly silenced.
“Nicola, how did you get into Vogue Magazine?”
“They just asked me, in fact I’ve been in it twice”
“Look at me !” Liz stormed off and has been slagging her ever since.
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