Insidiously Subtle

We are all aware, because we are told seven times a week by a free and cantankerous Press in various states of Stage 2 Leveson colic, that the Labour Party is anti-semitic; but it seems that the Conservatives are not altogether free from the racist scourge. A local deputy chair resigned after being present at an interview in which a Muslim man seeking selection as a council candidate was questioned obsessively about his faith, much as he would undoubtedly be questioned by the Conservative Party's racist voting base. The interviewers then discussed among themselves whether, given the racism of the Conservative Party's voting base, an Asian Muslim candidate would be able to gain sufficient votes to make his candidacy worth their while. Apparently there are still some to whom this kind of behaviour comes as a shock. Of course, the Conservatives are led by a racist, who was preceded by a racist, who was preceded by a racist, who was preceded by a racist, who was preceded by a racist; but few people have picked up on these subtleties other than the brilliant Baroness Warsi, who noticed the party's tendency to Muslim-baiting almost as soon as she no longer held the token female darkie share of the chairmanship. However, in defiance of the Conservatives' reputation as the Stupid Party, it is certainly worthy of note that at least one local Conservative party included until quite recently a council candidate who was slightly faster on the uptake than Baroness Warsi.