“Middle-aged white Brexit supporters called ‘Gammon’ by ‘SNOWFLAKE left-wing CORBYNITES'”

May 17, 2018 | Brexit

Tags: Gammon, NHS, UK, Voter

A ‘Gammon’ is apparently a ‘white, puffy, pink-cheeked, angry, middle-aged Brexit voter’. I don’t think I’ve ever met one, but plenty called a popular midday radio ’phone in to be angry about being one. A ‘Gammon and proud’ said he voted Brexit because he ‘believed in the Commonwealth’. Which of course gave us the Windrush generation and many others, brought to take up the job vacancies in the NHS and elsewhere that no-one here wanted fill. I don’t seem to remember the ‘Gammons’ of the 60s and 70s being any happier about that.

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