BREXIT has created a political climate so saturated with lunacy that American rapper Azealia Banks, perhaps better known for her controversies than her music, has become a voice of reason.
Maybe Jacob Rees-Mog can add this unexpected development to his list of Brexit dividends.
The musician took to her Instagram account to voice reasonable (if a little foul-mouthed) critiques of UK Government policy in her own fevered fashion.
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In the clip, she can be heard saying: "The only thing the UK needs to be worried about right now is Brexit, ok. How's that working out for you?"
She went on: “I heard the children are starving - I heard the kids are in class without a meal!
"The apples and the strawberries are rotting in the f****** fields because you guys were so xenophobic that you sent all the eastern Europeans home and y’all are too f****** lazy to get off your f****** English asses to go pick the f****** s*** yourselves.”
She went on to say, presumably referencing the response to her arguments, that we were not to talk about “unhinged”. We would never.
Azealia Banks was so real for this. Put her in the House of Commons. #brexit pic.twitter.com/uY9iHv8wMm
— Walter Deleon (@WalterDeleonDC) December 23, 2022
Banks made a valid point that speaks to the real pressure the UK agriculture sector has been put under by Brexit.
It was after this pertinent argument that she said: “Ribena is not going to save you, baby, when that scurvy hit and them teeth are flying out your goddamn mouth like two f****** saloon doors, then we’ll talk about unhinged.”
Fair enough.
While Banks has a rocky history of making incendiary remarks about a number of groups and individuals, in politics these days, you have to take well-reasoned points where you can get them.
Perhaps this will mark an upward trajectory for the rapper in finding appropriate ways of engaging with the public.
That is certainly more likely than any Westminster government, Labour or Tory, being able to make a success of the greatest act of national self-sabotage in the history of the UK.
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