Rishi Sunak And Racist Hypocrisy

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak got his racism in first at yesterday’s Tory leadership hustings, telling the mainly elderly and almost exclusively white audience of party members “The sun has been shining - so much so that someone even said to me the other day 'wow, you've got a great tan’”. Ah, memories of Charlie Williams on The Comedians, owning the bigots by telling them his Dad had been a colour sergeant in the Black Watch.

Grgory "Lauder" Frost of the TBG

Sunak will be well aware that, despite the ethnically diverse starting line-up in the race to succeed alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the Tories are, at what still passes for grass roots level, a deeply racist organisation. Those no longer allowed into the Tory tent are worse.

Which brings us to the Traditional Britain Group, domain of faux posh bigot Gregory “Lauder” Frost, a refuge for some of those forced out of the Tory party when Iain Duncan Cough called time on the Monday Club. Yes, they were too extreme even for him. The TBG are deeply concerned at the prospect of a Sunak premiership, and have put out a statement to that effect.

First comes the fantasy: “The BBC have brazenly led the rest of the left-wing media campaigning against Boris Johnson for the past year, at least. Now they have won”. No mention that Bozo’s downfall was brought about by his own colleagues, but when propaganda is your bag, reality matters little.

Then comes the flat-out racism. “The TBG also note with the usual disgust, the state of the fake Conservative Party and this latest proposal to potentially install an alien-origin Minister as the Prime Minister of the UK, with questionable citizenship, taxation and loyalty questions”. Er, hello?

They’ve just bemoaned the Tories disposing of someone of alien origin (Bozo was born in New York City), and his loyalty, well, one has to wonder. But this whining has nothing to do with factual analysis. It is because Sunak is not white, something that comes clear from reading the rest of the TBG screed.

He called me WHAT?

“Almost 9 out of 10 people in the UK, officially at least, remain European / Caucasians and it is these most representative British people who should be governing OUR nation”. That’s mighty white of them. Thus the effective admission that the TBG backs Whitey Power. It’s a racist organisation.

But here a problem enters: talk of alien origin individuals and people who are “European / Caucasians” lets out the head man of the TBG. Because Gregory “Lauder” Frost is of alien origin. And that origin certainly isn’t European.

The TBG’s leading light affects a posh accent, but no amount of trying can totally erase the residual hint of Strine: Gregory “Lauder” Frost likes to claim a link with Scots entertainer Harry Lauder, and suggest he was born in London’s Mayfair, but he was actually born plain Gregory Frost, in a Salvation Army maternity hospital in Newcastle - as in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Worse, he comes from a family of economic migrants. Gregory “Lauder” Frost’s mother had a grandfather called Matt Lauder, who was the brother of Harry Lauder. That’s as close as he gets. Matt Lauder had a son, also called Matt. They emigrated from Scotland to Australia, but by the early 1920s had emigrated again, this time to the west coast of the USA. There was more.

That TBG statement in full

And although Matt Lauder Junior became a US citizen in 1930, the family later emigrated once more, this time back to Australia. Matt Junior was on the electoral register in New South Wales by 1943. And it was in that part of the world that his daughter married. Cecily Lauder married Wallace Frost, described on the marriage certificate as a “Boilermaker”, in Newcastle, NSW, in April 1948. Their second son Gregory was born there in 1951. Born plain Gregory Frost. To a family comprised mainly of economic migrants.

That’s a tricky detail for someone who told the increasingly desperate and downmarket Telegraph “Most of the refugees [to Britain] are economic migrants, and the government should deport them as soon as possible”. Someone so racist and hypocritical that he smears Sunak as “alien origin” while managing to miss that Sunak was born in Southampton, and is British by birth. Gregory “Lauder” Frost is not. His is the real “alien origin”.

Good of the TBG, though, to let us know what used to be considered acceptable to the Tory party, and the racist hypocrisy of those whose real purpose is to support White Supremacy above all else.

Pity no-one who matters is listening to him nowadays. Sad, really.

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