The ‘Gammon’ insult is typical of Corbynista intolerance

Imagine referring to a whole section of society as meat. As mere flesh, bereft of sentience. It used to be hardcore racists who did that, to black people. Now it’s Corbynistas who do it, to that swarm of people they despise more than any other: lower middle-class or working-class white men, usually of middle age, probably lacking university education, and possessed of points of view that make the well-connected haughty youths of the Corbyn machine dry-heave in horror. These men from the lower-down parts of society are ‘gammons’, according to Corbynistas.

Nothing better captures the lack of self-awareness of the largely bourgeois youths who make up the Corbyn crew than their casual hurling of this slur at people they view as too old, too white, too common, and too right-wing. They have no idea how entitled it makes them seem. They call these people ‘gammons’ because apparently they look like gammon: that is, they’re red-faced.