Confused again

 Politics is very confusing at the moment and now it looks like there’s enough to stop Rishi challenging Boris, who sounds sane when he talks about gender, which actually is quite a feat because the concept of gender is bonkers anyway. Do parties matter when Boris knows what a penis is?

The Chancellor has had a politically damaging week. First, there was a budget that left us in no doubt that poor people could starve and freeze as far as he was concerned. Then he put petrol in someone else’s car and didn’t pay for it before flying to one of his mansions in California. While he was there he donated £100,000 to his old private school, Winchester College and teachers everywhere thought, “Blimey, you can get a lot of glue sticks for that!”

Now, it’s his mega-rich, beautiful Indian born wife that’s causing the problems. Oh, come on, leave the man alone. What does it matter what a man’s wife does? This isn’t the 1950s. Don’t shame him for earning considerably less than her, although his own net worth of £200bn is probably not to be sniffed at. 

It’s just not ok is it, to ask any questions. It’s sexist. She should be free to make her own decisions. Even if your husband is the chancellor of the exchequer of the country you live in he shouldn’t be able to stop you making squillions and propping up the economy of a country that his government is at war with in everything but name. No, that would be wrong. Husbands can never suggest that their wives shouldn’t do something and governments shouldn’t interfere in the business dealings of MP’s spouses. 

It’s also racist. You should know better. Of course she doesn’t pay tax in the UK. She’s Indian. She has non-Dom status. The Indian government won’t let her live here. To suggest that she is actually living at 10 Downing Street with her husband and children would be racist. Do you not understand what it’s like to be an Indian in this country? The fact that her husband’s party were elected on the promise of making people pay tax on money made in the UK is irrelevant.

I understand all of that. What I didn’t understand , though, was no one has worried about it before. All the Indians that haven’t been allowed to pay tax in the UK. No Indian doctors, nurses or shopkeepers are allowed to pay tax and your Friday night curry doesn’t carry any tax implications for the takeaway owner. That’s bonkers surely? 

I’m not being racist or sexist, honestly. I’m just confused.