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Even death cannot stop Ann Widdecombe from protesting political double standards.

Although her brutal murder has not yet been ruled a domestic terror incident, counter-terror police have confirmed the formidable Christian and former politician was targeted.

The evidence suggests political violence, and the online left-wing celebration of Widdecombe’s murder offers potential insight into who killed her and why.

Take far-left magazine Socialist Worker’s obituary as an example.

They declared: “Don’t let media force us to mourn a bigot.”

Hatred Directed at Widdecombe

Notably, the Socialists who reframe free speech about mass immigration as violence and racism felt free to throw “hate speech” at Widdecombe.

While a sloppy disclaimer stated they did not support the suspects, Socialist Worker’s obituary effectively said they were happy she was dead.

“We can all agree that murder is bad,” the far-left outfit stated.

“But nothing justifies a period of state-like mourning and the deluge of sycophantic eulogies to a homophobic, sexist and racist bigot.”

Applauding alleged comments made at a Miners gala, the Socialist magazine then smeared Widdecombe as the oppressor, stating, “It’s heartening to know that class hatred is alive and kicking.”

Additionally, Twitterati (Twitter users) who immigrated to Bluesky (the only social media platform NOT blacklisted for under-16s) were full of the same sanctimonious Marxian woke hypocrisy.

So much so that Stephen Pollard stated in The Telegraph that “the most disturbing thing about the so-called progressive platform is its dangerous herd mentality.”

“Post anything that questions a modern Left shibboleth, and you’ll be swarmed with abuse.”

Bluesky “exposes that broader truth about so many on the Left: Those who consider themselves to be members of the community of the good so often reveal themselves to be unspeakable in their actual behaviour.”

For instance, reactions on Bluesky to Widdecombe’s murder “have become a Mardi Gras of exultation at her death,” Pollard explained.

Comments from users ranged from “Good riddance,” to “[She’s] an irredeemable monster,” and “You should always say good things about dead people. She’s dead! Good!”

Other comments read: “Britain is a better place for her death. Bigots should rot in hell,” and “Seems like nothing of value was lost.”

These are not anomalies, nor are they from anonymous accounts, said Pollard.

“Search ‘Ann Widdecombe’ on the site, and you will be horrified by the quantity and content of the results. But remember: these are the self-described good people.”

Double Standards

The Left are so certain they’re the “good guys” they’ve put their own names on shameless posts “celebrating the murder of an elderly woman in her home”, remarked Pollard.

Sometimes those accounts even identify their employers.

Likewise, Baron Daniel Hannan took to The Daily Mail to call out the left-wing double standard on domestic terrorism, “hate speech” and political violence. He did so by quoting the late, great Roger Scruton.

Labelling this “political one-sidedness”, the former British MEP observed that gloating over an opponent’s grave like Sir Keir Starmer would be unimaginable for conservatives.

The reason is “conservatives could be friends with socialists because they simply thought they were mistaken.”

“But socialists,” as Scruton noted, “struggled to reciprocate, because they thought conservatives were evil.”

“All that matters [to them] is backing the group designated as oppressed.”

This “leads [those on the Left] into all sorts of apparent contradictions.”

Evidence for this is in the Left favouring “indigenous rights in Canada or New Zealand while recoiling at the suggestion that ethnic Britons have an equivalent prior claim to the UK.”

Hannan, in essence, argued that for many on the Left, “disagreement is betrayal”, “dissent is disloyalty” and “debate is hate.”

“Boiled down,” he said, “the Left-wing take on the world goes something like this: ‘I am a good person. I care about poor people, minorities and underdogs.’

“‘You disagree with me, so you must dislike all these groups, which makes you a bad person.’”

A relevant example is “Heather” Herbert, a trans-identifying university employee in Scotland, who stated online they hoped Widdecombe’s “death was extremely painful.”

To this, the man who identifies as a woman expressed joy at the thought of Widdecombe being “handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony.”

Those posts have now drawn interest from authorities because they were published before police announced the former MP’s death as murder.

Remembering Widdecombe as Britain’s “disapproving aunt,” Hannan quipped: If Widdecombe was as terrible as hers and Margaret Thatcher’s detractors claim, why did Thatcher win three elections?

Why was “Widdecombe the best known and most popular woman in politics in more recent times?”

‘Decency Is Dead’: Queen’s Chaplain

Joining the pushback was chaplain to the Queen, Dr Gavin Ashenden.

He unpacked his own thoughts by stating that thanks to Cain and Abel, “we know the motive” for Widdecombe’s death.

“The moral and spiritual question that emerged from the field where Cain lifted his hand against Abel,” Ashenden argued, “still stands over us and our political and social arena.”

“Widdecombe made her public offering as Abel did. That was Ann’s provocation. It’s the oldest provocation there is.”

He then described the outpouring of rage, hatred, vitriol and delight in the public square over Ann’s death as an extraordinary phenomenon.

There was a time when the dead were treated with respect, he said, “but that part of decency, which was essentially part of Christian culture, has passed.”

Making his point, Ashenden branded the cheering as dehumanisation.

The dehumanising of Widdecombe wasn’t just from a crazed fringe either.

This was from the “lunatic centre as well,” people with recognisable faces, voices with big platforms.

We’re waiting, he continued, “for the police to tell us what some already know.”

The answer is already in front of us, Ashenden then asserted.

It’s on full display in the cheering of Widdecombe’s murderer, through another left-wing version of “ding-dong the witch is dead.”

“It was her pursuit or invocation of ethics, morals, values, and standards that were rooted in the sacred that provoked the real intensity of hatred against her.”

“Those who exalted in her death imagine they were passing judgement on a bigot. In truth,” Ashenden acknowledged, “they were answering once again the question put to Cain, and answering it by reaching for a rock.”

Ann Widdecombe, he seemed to state, is a modern-day martyr.

We are in a civil war between progressives and conservatives, hatred and democracy, Ashenden said.

This is a war between “hatred and decency, the sacred and the profane, freedom and repression of speech.”

It’s also between “the courage to articulate unwelcome truth, and those who dress censorship up as a compulsion.”

“It’s a conflict between judgement and justice, mercy and the mob.”

Despite not yet knowing the reasons for Widdecombe’s assassination, Ashenden said, “we already know the fault lines of the moral and spiritual conflict.”

We too are seeing “who places himself on which side of the line, and why.”

“We too face the same invitation to keep faith with God or pretend that somehow we can make salvation ourselves.”

As Widdecombe once said, “You get to heaven through Christ. I mean, I would have thought that was perfectly obvious through the sacrifice at Calvary; I don’t know any other way of getting there.”

She did not deserve to die this way.

Ann certainly doesn’t deserve the drivel being thrown at her by Karl Marx’s flying monkeys who think their “oppressor-oppressed” ideology puts them beyond scrutiny.

The real monster is the Marxian woke zero-sum game in play here.

Specifically, the Left’s double standards on domestic terror, “hate speech”, and political violence.

To quote the Moravians, “May the Lamb who was slain receive the reward of his suffering.”

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