Let's Get Political!

[Batch]

history.....she's over achieving.

she may be blindingly brilliant behind the scenes. Who knows. that's irrelevant. If you look pig shit thick in front of camera, you are fucked.

Why do you think Johnson is ducking serious scrutiny.

(oh, and they've mostly hidden the actual wankers away too -JRM)

[pauld]

But the answer is the same She come across as stupid in interview (and is part of the left, whether percetion or actually ). Therefore the right attack her as a soft target.

They are hardly going to do the same to their own man. The "left" do though.

I may be wrong, but I read Horlock's post as suggesting  it was because she was black.

I think actually he meant it's because she's a black woman. Abbott is crap at interviews and does come across as a bit thick, so yeah she's always going to be the target of ridicule as a result, just as Francois, Raab, Rees-Mogg etc are. But a lot of the stuff thrown her way is way more extreme than mere ridicule, it's racist death/rape threats etc. And it's not just a few, there's hundreds of these people targetting her like that

There has been some evidence (and frustratingly, I can't now find the link to the research) that female MPs (of all parties) have been disproportionately targeted for the most extreme hate, whether that be via social media, rape/death threats in the post or verbal attacks in the street. Anna Soubry, for example, has a police guard as routine because of some of the stuff she's had from extreme Brexiters, and Luciana Berger similarly targeted by the hard left.

[jayohaitchenn]

Abbott receives 50% of the abuse directed at female MPs on twitter:

https://www.newstatesman.com/2017/09/we-tracked-25688-abusive-tweets-sent-women-mps-half-were-directed-diane-abbott

Black and Asian female MPs are abused more often:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/online-violence-women-mps

There's more research linked in this Indy article:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/mps-abuse-online-anna-soubry-female-politicians-rape-threats-research-jo-cox-a8726796.html

[pauld]

Cheers jayo, you saved me from my lazy googling

[Flashheart]

Sajid David claiming high homelessness rates are Labour's fault.

Literally. I've not dressed that up in any way. He is literally saying that the problem is not their fault, but the fault of a party that has not been in power for 10 years.

And people will buy it.

[Red Frog]

The last verse needs to be the slogan for the rest of the campaign!

[pauld]

Not normally got a lot of time for Prince Charles, but if this is intentional, he's growing on me:

https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1202046156940836865

[michael]

Sajid David claiming high homelessness rates are Labour's fault.

Literally. I've not dressed that up in any way. He is literally saying that the problem is not their fault, but the fault of a party that has not been in power for 10 years.

And people will buy it.

Sajid Javid, of course, was at Deutsche Bank in the 2000s selling the CDOs that started the "credit crunch". There can't be many people in front-line politics, anywhere in the world, who is in any way more responsible than him for the subsequent world-wide recession and the impact of it.

But yes, keep on blaming Labour.

[Bogus Dave]

Notwithstanding that homelessness reached historic lows under the last labour government

[Mister Lorenzo]

Jewish Labour Movement's submission to the EHRC has been leaked, and it's pretty remarkable

https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1202505953498...

"The Labour Party is no longer a safe space for Jewish people”. Imagine this about any other ethnic group, in any other party.

[Flashheart]

and it's pretty remarkable

It is?

How so?

[Dr Pierre Chang]

Jewish Labour Movement's submission to the EHRC has been leaked, and it's pretty remarkable

https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1202505953498...

"The Labour Party is no longer a safe space for Jewish people”. Imagine this about any other ethnic group, in any other party.

Incredible.

Let’s see how the usual suspects try to spin this one...

[Flashheart]

Incredible.

It is?

How so?

[pauld]

"The Labour Party is no longer a safe space for Jewish people”. Imagine this about any other ethnic group, in any other party.

You don't need to imagine it - here's Baroness Warsi on Islamophobia in the Tories.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/27/sayeeda-warsi-tory-islamophobia-muslim-prejudice-investigation

That doesn't excuse Labour on this btw.

[Ardiles]

What are the odds that Trump is actually pushed out of office?  More than zero?  How does it work?