IS LABOUR "GROOMING" A NEW GENERATION OF MPs?

The "Baby of the House," fast-tracked or b***n-tracked?

by Daniel Barge

The best argument against gays in politics is that they are so darned good at it. There is something inherent in politics that suits the gay mentality. Whether it's the facility of playing different roles or saying stuff that they don't really mean, or the ability to see behind facades and form tight little networks, gays seem particularly gifted at politics. They also tend to be more photo- and telegenic than "dull" normal masculine men, who often lack that sparkly Tinkerbell quality that attracts the public's jaded attention.

The most recent example of this is Labour's newest MP, Keir Mather, a freshly elected 25-year-old who, it appears, has never had a real job in his life, and is openly gay. 

So, what kind of meteoric rise are we witnessing here?

He seems to be the child of a one-parent family, with a mother having a foreign-sounding Greek or Italian name.

The BBC:

"He just loves speaking," said mum Jill Tambaros, adding that he had studied Speech and Drama in school and enjoyed performing in plays. "We both just really enjoy politics, it's just part of our life," she told BBC News. "If ever I was cross with him he'd go, 'mummy, shall I put on BBC News?' - to cheer me up." He was named after James Keir Hardie, one of the founders of the Labour party, Ms Tambaros added.

His chosen surname, Mathers, by contrast sounds quite British.

But, much more interestingly, a quick look at Wikipedia reveals that he was boosted at two critical points in his career by older gay men, and it was not even based on party lines (I guess there are other loyalties stronger than the purely party political ones).

Wikipedia:

While at the University of Oxford Mather worked as a researcher for the writer and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris.

Parris (age 73) is a well-known gay journalist and former politician who pretended to be straight in order to get elected back in the 1980s.

Mather. after being appointed an official of the Oxford Union debating society and a co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club, next accelerated his ascent up the ranks of the Labour Party with another gay connection:

Mather worked as a public affairs adviser for the Confederation of British Industry for 18 months before entering Parliament and was a parliamentary researcher for Labour MP Wes Streeting from 2019 to 2020.

Streeting (age 40) is one of the leading faces and frontbenchers of Labour and has been openly gay throughout his career, as Labour, since it lost touch with its working class roots, is religiously tolerant of anything LGBTQ+. 

This is only a cursory look at Mather, and I could of course be wrong in my impressions, but to me this looks very much like a case of the "gay mafia" in action. It would be entirely within the realms of legitimate interest to wonder what "favours" have passed between young Keir and his kindly gay patrons.

Anyway, as usual, the Great British Voter had the last say in all this, and they obviously don't mind their parliamentary candidates being chosen in this way. Perhaps the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah had elections rather like this one just before the fire fell from the sky!