Stephen Crabb was the first Tory to put his name forward to be the next prime minister. Stephen who, you might ask? Stephen Crabb, the current secretary of state for work and pensions, that’s who. He’s succeeded the odious Iain Duncan Smith, who presided over a department which caused people to kill themselves and drove others, a million others, to food banks. This young bearded chap, raised in a council house by a lone parent, just has to be better than Duncan Smith. Doesn’t he? Let’s look at the evidence.
Crabb voted for and actively supported all Duncan Smith’s attacks on the sick and disabled. In one way, he might be regarded as even worse. Duncan Smith finally resigned from his job citing the example of the government’s £4 billion cuts to disability benefits. Crabb was so upset by the cuts to the most vulnerable people in the land, he replaced Duncan Smith immediately in order to implement them.
And he’s a christian. A bona fide hardline christian who stands with the very worst Godwhackers. In 2013, he voted to oppose equal marriage, not by accident, but because his christian values made him do it. His twisted, bigoted christian views came first. He dismisses his actions thus: “We had that debate in the last Parliament about gay marriage. I voted the way I did but I’m very happy with the outcome that issue is now settled, we move on from it. I’m absolutely committed to create a tolerant decent society for everybody regardless of background, regardless of their sexuality. That is not an issue in this leadership campaign.” What? You voted to prevent people marrying people they loved because of your religious bigotry but you’re “very happy” now that they can. Not good enough, Mr Crabb. Once a bigot, always a bigot.
There’s worse. Mr Crabb has close links with CARE (Christian Action Research and Education). Now that sounds like an oxymoron to me but what they actually believe in is even worse. CARE has sponsored events that referred to gay and bisexual people as “broken” and seeks to find cures for homosexuality. I do not buy the idea that Crabb is now “happy with the outcome”, as if what he voted on doesn’t matter anymore. Of course it matters: it’s what he is.
It goes without saying that Crabb was another expenses fiddler before he got caught, flipping homes to make as much money from the taxpayer as possible.
And like every Tory who is standing for election, he is anti-immigration because, you see, immigrants are holding this country back. Not his wife, of course, who is French. She is different from other immigrants.
Is he going to win? Well, he’s got a beard and the only other major political leader with one is Jeremy Corbyn and he’s not doing too well, is he?
