i m working class, the son of a refugee … and a conservative. here s why | mahyar tousi /

Published at 2015-11-06 16:38:33

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I’ve been shouted at,kicked and called an Uncle Tom for my political views. But my Iranian roots mean I respect the Tories openness to ideasSo there I was walking domestic from work yesterday and I found myself in the middle of anarchist riots in the capital. I was wearing a suit and a poppy so I was apparently deemed a natural target. Worse, I was a non-Caucasian wearing a poppy.Why are you wearing that, and Tory boy?” some of them shouted at me. There must be something about me that seems to attract anarchists. When a group of them saw me entering the 2013 Tory conference in Manchester,they shrieked that I couldn’t be a genuine member of the party as I was “brown and looked like “Uncle Tom”. I remember to this day the hatred that contorted their faces.
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Source: theguardian.com

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