Thread by @paddydocherty

A short thread on Tory loon Gerald Howarth, former MP for #Aldershot, summarising his comprehensive awfulness. 😖✊🇪🇺🇻🇳🦠 #ToriesOut #ToriesKill #COVID19 #ToryGenocide

Young Gerald showed an early desire to be on the wrong side of history, joining the Conservative Party in 1964 while still a teenager. In that year, the Tories were busy conducting one of the most racist election campaigns ever 😖✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #ToriesOut #racism

theguardian.com/world/2014/oct…

In March 1968, while millions of young people around the world protested against US violence in Vietnam, Howarth attended the famous Grosvenor Square demo to protest IN FAVOUR of the war… 😮✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #ffs #ToriesOut #Vietnam

Given this support for state slaughter of innocents, it will come as no surprise that, like many Tory inadequates, Howarth (who was in the RAF Volunteer Reserve 1968-69) enjoys military cosplay... 🙄🇪🇺🇻🇳 #bellend #ToriesOut

While working as a banker in the 1970s, Howarth collaborated with the lawyer Francis Bennion (pic) to establish an organisation – “Freedom Under Law” – to campaign FOR apartheid in South Africa… 😧✊🇪🇺🇻🇳🇿🇦 #racism #ToriesOut #ToryGenocide #ToriesLie

They also launched a private prosecution of anti-apartheid activist (and later Labour cabinet minister) Peter Hain, because they didn’t like his efforts to prevent sporting tours of South Africa. 😖✊🇪🇺🇻🇳🇿🇦 #ffs #ToriesOut #racism

Howarth was in Parliament 1983-1992 as MP for Cannock & Burntwood (becoming one of the loopiest Thatcherites), then spent 1997-2017 as MP for #Aldershot. His voting record is grim. 😖✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #ToriesOut #ToriesLie #ToriesKill

He is a committed homophobe, and was vociferously against allowing gay people to serve openly in the armed forces.
😖✊🇪🇺🇻🇳🌈 #ToriesOut #pride #bigot #ToriesLie #ToriesKill #ToryGenocide

Unsurprisingly, Howarth was also violently against marriage equality – so much so that his remarks in the House of Commons on the issue were incoherent… He never did explain what this bizarre remark (see pic) meant… 🤔 #ToriesOut #ToriesKill #pride 🌈👭👬

Gerald Howarth also thinks that Enoch Powell was right about immigration… 😧 #racism #ToriesOut #ToriesKill #ffs #resist #BlackLivesMatter

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

This is what Howarth wrote to a constituent – racism this open is rare even in the Tory party… 😮✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #ToriesOut #racism #ToriesLie #resist #Aldershot #BlackLivesMatter

Not only did Howarth agree with Enoch Powell in his racist views, it turns out that they were old friends. 😖✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #ffs #gross #ToriesOut #ToriesKill #resist #racism #BlackLivesMatter

He’s so dementedly racist that his views on melanin override even his avowed love of the armed forces, normally a Tory staple. Here are his bizarre remarks involving retired Gurkhas and park benches… 😠✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #resist #racism #ToriesOut #BlackLivesMatter

mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/g…

A rabid Brexiteer, Howarth also demonstrated the commitment to gibberish necessary to thrive in Tory circles. This is what he had to say about Theresa May’s incoherent statement on Brexit. 🤪✊🇻🇳🇪🇺 #QuiteMad #Brexit #LostHisMarbles #ToriesOut

Far from being a fringe nutjob in the Conservative Party due to his racism and bigotry, Howarth was embraced by the Tory establishment, being knighted by David Cameron in 2012. 😖✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #gross #ToriesOut #DaveIsATwat

So this is one of the demented Tory loons who has done all he can to promote the most regressive policies for decades, and towards the end of his life has inflicted a ruinous #Brexit on this country. 😠✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #ToriesOut #ToriesLie #COVID19 #ToryGenocide

Howarth retired from Parliament in 2017 and was replaced in his #Aldershot constituency by another Brexit-supporting Tory (though I must recuse myself from commenting upon him)… ☺️ #ToriesOut #resist #racism #liars 🇪🇺🇻🇳

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

He no longer besmirches Parliament, but the racist, bigoted Howarth is a reminder that to save the country, we must *destroy* the Tory party. 😠✊🇪🇺🇻🇳 #ToriesOut #ToriesLie #Brexit #crooks #liars #JohnsonMustGo #COVID19 🦠

@miffythegamer are you a member of the “aggressive homosexual community”...?!! 🤪✊🌈