Britain's Labour Party is often derided by the far right, much like the Democrats here, as really being run by liberal elites rather than those who "fully understand working-class concerns." Guy Matthews, a Labour Party activist from Retford, has heard that bullshit too often and went off, setting the record straight in a video that went viral on Facebook and Twitter.
Or as he says in the video, "I’m closer to a Jamaican born brickie than I am Jacob Rees-Mogg. I've got more in common with a Polish hotel maid than I do with Nigel Farage. There's a lot of money and effort that goes into obscuring that simple truth."
He's garnered much praise on twitter for saying what needed to be said.
WHYYY did I wait so long to watch this?? So happy to share with my American friends after it’s made the rounds here in the UK. pic.twitter.com/6Jfuu7uRcw
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) May 25, 2019
"I am closer to a Jamaican born brickie than I am Jacob Rees-Mogg. I've got more in common with a Polish hotel maid than I do with Nigel Farage. There's a lot of money and effort that goes into obscuring that simple truth."
This is simple but really goodpic.twitter.com/G8xtN9pqdO— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) May 23, 2019
An earlier version of this article mistakenly identified Mr. Guy as an MP.
