With Nigel Farage fuelling rumours of a Reform-Conservative deal, merger or outright hostile takeover, there’s one issue both parties can agree is a priority – tackling the scourge of woke gingerbread people.
Reform chief whip Lee Anderson launched his campaign last month, having become affronted by the sale of a £1.70 “gingerbread person” in the House of Commons canteen. He told the media that, under a Reform government, the sale of gender-neutral treats would be banned, saying: “When Reform is in government there will be no more gingerbread people, no police people, or chair people. We will not abandon tradition to appease the woke and delusional.”
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He was joined in his fury by veteran Tory MP Desmond Swayne, who told the Sun that the baked snack was “bonkers”, and Tom Tugendhat, the former security minister and one-time leadership hopeful, who mocked the “courage” required to rebrand it.
Now another Conservative has hunted down the offending item, as Susan Hall – who stood for the London mayoralty last year and hilariously is said to have ambitions to do so again – was fuming to discover a bag of “16 Mini Gingerbread People” on sale at her local Morrisons. “Look at this nonsense- NO – they are gingerbread men!!!,” she posted angrily on, inevitably, X, with a photo of the offending item (clearly not on the shelf, so she’d bought them anyway for the likes).
At least both Reform and the Tories are concentrating on the big issues facing the country at the moment – policing the gender of biscuits!
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