Why has gutless Starmer not kicked Dawn Butler out?! What she said of Kemi Badenoch is repugnant - Carole Malone

But No, this bitter and vindictive woman, who spends her life banging on about racism, chose not to congratulate Kemi but to denigrate her, humiliate her and to accuse her of representing “white supremacy in blackface. ”

It’s a repugnant insult that should be punishable not just by suspension from the party but eviction. So why hasn’t the gutless Keir Starmer done it. He’s kicked people out for a lot less.

But he hasn’t and he won’t. He’s made clear that although he thought the re-tweet was wrong Butler won’t face any discipline. Why the Hell not?

Does this mean he largely agrees with the sentiment of that vile social media post that Butler retweeted. Because although he’s said it was wrong he clearly doesn’t think it’s wrong enough to punish her?

Does Starmer actually see Kemi’s election as a “victory for racism,” as the tweet suggested? Because that’s what it’s looking like.

But this is normal behaviour for Starmer – a row erupts and he sits on his hands and does nothing.

Never mind that at best Butler’s behaviour is a total betrayal of the Sisterhood. But it’s actually way more than that its actually racist.

This is the woman who spends her life screaming about racism yet when a black woman is elected leader of a major political party - not the backward, racist Labour Party obviously – Butler chooses not to praise her but to savage her and de humanise her with these unforgivable insults.

It was only last year Butler was moaning in a Left-wing newspaper about how black women were disrespected in the House of Commons and how groups of white men were forever trying to put her in her place.

And here SHE is - a black woman - shamefully disrespecting and sneering at another black woman politician trying not just to put her in her place but to destroy her.

Does Butler not see the hypocrisy?

Kemi Badenoch has never used the colour of her skin to win arguments or to try to get ahead. She has just worked hard and thrown her heart and soul into trying to make this country a better place.

All Butler has ever done is scream about racism. She sees it everywhere and in everyone and I’m afraid its made her not just bitter but unelectable for high office.

What is it with politicians of colour on the Left that they imagine any Tory politician of colour on the right is a traitor or a white supremacist? The Left really believe they have moral ownership of all people of colour. But how racist is that? How racist is it to imagine that all black and brown people should think and vote the same ?

Remember how the Left slammed Priti Patel as “a pawn of white supremacy”. She and other non-white members of Boris’ first cabinet were written off as ministers with brown skins wearing Tory masks. That’s also racist isn’t it?

But it’s clearly never occurred to Butler – who has made racism her political raison d’etre that her own party actually has a problem with racism AND sexism.

How many previous Labour shadow cabinets have had a proportionate mix of people with brown and black skins? When did they Labour have a leader with a brown or a black skin. Oh hang on – never.

It’s only this year the party joined the 21st century and now have a female chancellor - although that’s been a catastrophic mistake as we’re already seeing. The Tories have had three women PMs AND a PM of colour. So the Tories aren’t the racists or the sexists.

Dawn Butler is no stranger to vile, divisive rhetoric and she creates division where there wasn’t any.

She should have been thrilled for Kemi Badenoch and her achievement. It should have been a case of one female black politician warmly congratulating another. But instead Butler sneered at Badenoch, spat on her achievements and dehumanised her by agreeing she was a “white supremacist in blackface ”

Butler needs to take along hard look at her beliefs on racism. Because where I’m sitting thousands of Tory Party members from the Shires – people you might not imagine would be 100% on board with a black leader, let alone a female one - just voted resoundingly for Kemi.

And why? It wasn’t because of the colour of her skin. They don’t give a damn about that. What they saw in Kemi was someone who could whip the warring Tories into shape and who cares about the issues that affect the British people.

More importantly they wanted someone who would give the Brits a bright, shinning ray of hope. Because right now we’re all looking at this disastrous excuse for a government and despairing!