Reposted by Chris Weston
And as for the paedophilia-tinged sexist stuff about a female Reform candidate (“if she was my daughter, it would still be bath night on a Thursday” etc.), words fail.
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![In 2014, Jenrick entered parliament as, in the words of one Tory adviser, a ‘parody-level Cameroon blandy’. Or in the words of his former ally and mentor, former arch-Remainer Tory MP Anna Soubry, a ‘full-fat subscriber to David Cameron’. Nickie Aiken, the former Tory MP and leader of Westminster City Council, said: “I was quite surprised how militant he became as immigration minister as he has always been centrist”. He won the Newark by-election in 2014 by urging Labour and Lib Dem supporters to lend him their votes to stop the ‘extreme’ UKIP from winning. In that by-election, he said: “we are all, well many of us, are certainly immigrants to some extent. My name’s an unusual one but I think my ancestors just caught an earlier boat than other people’s. This country’s been built by great immigrants.” His idol Ken Clarke - the Europhile Tory grandee who represented the neighbouring Rushcliffe - was put on his election literature. Commenting on his victory, the young Jenrick said: ‘You win elections at the centre.’ Two years later, in 2016, he campaigned for Remain alongside Clarke. Jenrick even signed a letter ahead of the EU referendum, along with 16 other MPs, denouncing ‘Farage’s Britain’ as ‘angry, intolerant, limited [and] sepia-coloured’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:refbwihhzcqqfulwhcou44sr/bafkreidwfpjqcojro3q4cjr346z2a2bkfg4nyquiqp4wcq4hs574yiwub4)
