Is Dawn Butler Britain’s most ridiculous MP?

Apparently, Kemi Badenoch’s victory in the Tory leadership race is a win for ‘white supremacy in blackface’. At least, that’s according to a post on X that was reshared by Labour MP Dawn Butler.

Astonishingly, the MP for Brent East seems to genuinely believe that the first black female leader of a major UK party is, in the words of a tweet by writer Nels Abbey, a ‘member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class’. Butler swiftly deleted the tweet, but the internet is forever and evidence of the offending post was quickly preserved.

It’s curious that Butler didn’t have more nice things to say about Badenoch, who is of Nigerian origin, given that she usually posts endlessly about the supposed importance of diversity and black representation in politics. After the UK General Election, she tweeted excitedly about how her and her fellow black Labour MPs were ‘showing off the melanin’ in Westminster.

Indeed, Butler is one of those MPs who seems to have been driven completely insane by racial identity politics. Her obsession with her own race is cringeworthy, bordering on creepy. Last month, she posted a video of herself performing a spoken-word poem for Black History Month, in which she declared that she was ‘the Chosen One’ and ‘one of the First Ones’ because of her skin colour. The video includes various shots of herself, as well as what looks to be some AI-generated, hotep-style images of black ‘pharaohs’. She even takes a pop at white people who enjoy sunbathing, who supposedly ‘try so hard to achieve’ the ‘skin you don’t like’ by ‘burning yourself with the Sun’.

Shortly after that, Butler posted in celebration of ‘Black Girl Day Off’. Apparently, this is an annual day dedicated to encouraging black women to take the day off work to focus on their emotional wellbeing. Butler’s constituents must have been thrilled to learn that their MP is taking such diligent care of her mental health and preserving her ‘black girl magic’.

Butler has joined in with just about every fashionable ‘anti-racist’ cause, no matter how absurd it is. Predictably, she recently endorsed the calls for Britain to pay slavery reparations to its former colonies, despite the fact that they are asking for around £18 trillion – a sum almost eight times the size of the UK’s entire GDP. In 2018, she memorably railed against an apparently even greater injustice: when celeb chef Jamie Oliver released his own version of jerk rice, Butler accused him of cultural ‘appropriation’ and said that his microwaveable, Jamaican-inspired dish was ‘not okay’.

As well as losing her mind over race, Butler has also gone all in for gender ideology – to the point where she declared, on live television in 2020, that ‘a child is born without sex’.

In a similar show of dodgy biology knowledge, during the Pink News Awards ceremony in 2019, Butler made the baffling claim that ‘90 per cent of giraffes are gay’. She was attempting to make some kind of argument about the naturalness of same-sex attraction. Some people think that children are ‘taught’ to be gay, she said, but ‘if you can teach gayness, who speaks giraffe?’. Science is clearly not her strong point.

The tweet Butler shared about Kemi Badenoch has prompted calls for Keir Starmer to remove the party whip from her. At the very least, someone in Labour desperately needs to take Butler’s phone or X account off her – if only for her own good, before she tweets anything even more ridiculous.

Lauren Smith is a staff writer at spiked.