If David Casa were in the Labour Party, he’d be trapped in an LGBT corral or given a pretend job as the prime minister’s (blackmailing) Sherpa

I have written repeatedly about the fact that true liberalism means INDIFFERENCE to a person’s sexuality or gender, that making a special case of people who are women or gay or both is the opposite of liberalism.

By definition, making a special case of somebody for being a woman or being gay or being both of those things, whether negatively or ‘positively’, is an insult because what you are doing is patronising them and showing that you actually do think and believe that they are ‘different’ and that in your mind the mainstream is by default 1. male and 2. heterosexual.

If ‘Joseph’ were really enlightened, rather than channelling all the backwoods prejudices he was raised with in his village, then he wouldn’t be making a special case of gay men (extending this to gay women is too much for him, because that’s two backwoods prejudices right there that he has to overcome).

The Labour Party’s view on gay people is to corral them into LGBT Labour and pick the campest stereotypes and clichés to fete and parade like bearded ladies in a 19th-century circus. And the people who are paraded in this way confuse this special attention with ‘equality’ and ‘liberalism’.

They don’t notice that their only value to the Labour Party is as a reverse ‘freak show’ – yes, that’s how the Labour Party sees it: as the toleration and championing of what it considers to be freakishness – and that gay people are kept out of the party’s power structures unless they are safely married to those of the opposite gender, or can exercise leverage through fear of blackmail, like the infamous Sherpa.

If David Casa were in the Labour Party, he would only have been considered for the post of secretary-general if he were safely in the closet and married to a woman (it’s been done before). Otherwise he would have had to get hold of a whole bunch of naked pictures and a couple of iPhone recordings of private conversations and say ‘Create a (fake) position for me or else’.

David Casa’s advantage here is that he is extremely sociable right across the spectrum, and a good communicator. The Nationalist Party needs that.