Anyone foolish enough to doubt the tories aren’t the arrogant bunch of pricks any thinking person knows them to be should just go here. One of those unelected p’tahks, Gutto Bebb, apparently ‘advised’ a man with autism to ‘refrain from commenting in the public domain’ due to his mental health issues. It’s frankly galling enough to be forced to see that arsewipe CaMoron lining up beside legitimate world leaders as if he deserves to be among them, but for the tories to be so patronising, for them to try to dictate who can and cannot comment, infuriates me beyond words. This is akin to someone telling me I should not blog because I have cp. True, autism and cp are very different phenomena, but the allusion holds, for the same arrogant lack of understanding inherent in Bebb’s statement, the same assumption he makes about another person’s capacity to comment on the grounds of his disability, is something I too face almost daily. As Mary Wimbury, Labour’s general election candidate for Aberconwy, where these exchanges took place, said ”This lack of courtesy and respect towards constituents is clearly an inappropriate way for any MP to behave – he should think long and hard about his future behaviour.” Yet to make matters worse, Bebb has the gall to claim to have been insulted: ”I do have a close family history of mental health issues and find the idea that I would be derogatory of such an illness highly offensive”, and that he was only offering some helpful advice. Well, I have some advice for him: apologise and resign.