Jill Knight

KNIGHTMARE OVER

Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, has become the latest example of the Billy Joel mantra in dying at the age of 98. The Tory MP for Birmingham Edgbaston for 31 years, she was a staunch Thatcher ally and a fan of apartheid South Africa who detested gays and abortion. Her chief legacy was infamous antigay law Section 28. In promoting it, she suggested a correlation between LGBT acceptance and the spread of AIDS, and as with every antigay politician, used an “our sweet, innocent children are under danger” tone to make her bigotry appear compassionate. Antigay to the end despite some half-hearted attempts to soften her image, Knight vaguely apologised in 2018 for the harm Section 28 caused to many, still insisting that she entirely did it out of concern for children’s welfare. Nice try, Helen Lovejoy. She was picked by three teams.

Jill Knight
9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022, aged 98
3 TEAMS (💀💀💀💀💀 5 POINTS)