All the Difference

A Conservative council candidate who used Twitter for Islamophobic and homophobic comments rather than for insulting poor people and immigrants has resigned from the party. This candidate is not to be confused with the various UKIP candidates who have resigned after making Islamophobic, homophobic, sexist and racist comments. Whereas UKIP is a non-racist, non-lunatic party which just happens to be led by a rich white man and to include a wide and diverse variety of racists and lunatics, the Conservative Party is a non-racist, non-lunatic party which just happens to be led by a rich white man and to include a wide and diverse variety of token types, provided they are sufficiently thick-headed, unpleasant, crooked and greedy. The differences between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party are, of course, very nearly as significant.