Publicly mocking a man who has just died from falling off a ladder. This is what the ‘compassionate’ left has been getting up to on social media in recent days, in between retweeting conspiracy theories about the Bondi terror attack.
‘That knucklehead Paul Lumber who died putting up flags looks exactly like u imagined. The Master Race!!’, spat one person
Paul Lumber, 60, fell to his death while putting up England and Union flags near his home in south Bristol. He was active in the Operation Raise the Colours campaign, which has taken many of Britain’s neglected high streets and dual carriageways by storm.
Lumber suffered multiple injuries, including head injuries, following the tragic incident on 23 November. He was rushed to hospital and placed in an induced coma, from which he never woke up.
First, the tributes poured in from those who knew him. ‘He was widely regarded as one of the area’s most colourful and recognisable characters’, a friend told the media. ‘His family and friends were at the heart of everything he did’, said another. ‘Anyone who knew him will recall the pride, love and warmth with which he spoke about them all. He was a working-class hero.’
Then, the bile came spewing from those who had never met him. ‘Oh dear, how sad, never mind’, tweeted Remoaner influencer Tan Smith (aka @Supertanskiii). ‘Paul Lumber didn’t die in the name of patriotism’, said prize plum Femi Oluwole, another relic of the Brexit wars. ‘He died KNOWINGLY provoking fear and division.’
The no-marks online were even less subtle in their contempt. ‘That knucklehead Paul Lumber who died putting up flags looks exactly like u imagined. The Master Race!!’, spat one. ‘[L]et’s hope he wins a darwin award’, sneered another, referring to the jokey honours conferred on those who take themselves out of the gene pool by their own actions. ‘Remember kids – see a racist up a ladder, give it a little nudge.’
Mocking dead blue-collar men. Wondering out loud if society might be better off now they are prevented from breeding. Welcome to the modern left, a movement of snobs and sociopaths that has long since dropped any pretence to being on the side of those frightful oiks.
Lumber might not have been a choir boy. He was a fixture of Bristol City’s City Service Firm, and went on to write books about the Eighties hooliganism scene. He spent time inside for football-related violence, and is believed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order after they were brought in.
But there is still something ghoulish about welcoming the death of a man you did not know, and ascribing views to him from afar. This isn’t about one individual, either. The entire flag-raising movement has been reflexively dismissed as racist, with few on the left stopping to wonder if there might be more going on there. That maybe – just maybe – they’re not all seasoned NF thugs. That there are patriotic people out there who are simply opposed to mass migration, chafing at a divisive, lopsided multiculturalism, and keen to assert a sense of national, shared pride.
The reason the Great and Good casually demonise those raising the colours is that they suspect it is largely white working-class people who are involved – and this is the one group in society it is apparently totally acceptable to despise. Phoney ‘anti-racism’ is how today’s metropolitan middle classes launder their loathing of the lower orders, who they tar as knuckle-dragging fascists. It’s how the new elites express their sense of superiority and sophistication.
Thus, it has become legitimate for supposed left-wingers to think that working-class people are scum, to presume the worst about someone based on what they look like, to share in a giggle when a man they disagreed with falls to his death. They can dress it up however they want, but it’s class hatred all the way down.
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