A great shame as she is a fantastic MP IMO, I feel quite sorry for her... obviously going through a lot of family problems right now.

 

It's a total irony that a number of the journalists stalking her and writing this shit about her are probably doing a lot more Cocaine each week than her son + his mates on a weekend at Bestival, but that's no excuse for chucking a bucket of water over a journalist.

 

Anyway - speculation that Ed Miliband could replace Kate Osamor as Shadow International Development Secretary. :D (Tyron will be pleased !)

Why are Labour mps held to such a different standard? If a Tory minister did this, they would neeever resign.

Show me any examples of a Tory MP assaulting a journalist in recent history, then we can compare if there are double standards.

 

The last example I can think of of a politician attacking a journalist in mainstream UK politics is UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom hitting a Channel 4 journalist with a conference brochure. He was subsequently kicked out of the party.

Disgraced Amber Rud was thrown under the bus to stop Mad May having to resign, only to pop up like a recurrent fungal infection a couple months later, no BBC questions asked.

I am unaware of Amber Rudd ever assaulting a journalist, unless she was quite rough with her ex, A.A Gill.

Lobbing the contents of a glass of water over someone is really assault now? Jesus wept, half of the people in nightclubs would be charged on an average weekend

Lobbing the contents of a glass of water over someone is really assault now? Jesus wept, half of the people in nightclubs would be charged on an average weekend

 

But don't they often 'forget' to remove it from the container... :P

Dunno what the clubs round your way are like but it sounds like the dress code is riot gear. Up in Dundee they don't follow through with the glass, just its contents.

Corbyn has apparently called May a 'stupid woman' (he denies having done so), which is of course top news on the BBC :rolleyes:

Corbyn has apparently called May a 'stupid woman' (he denies having done so), which is of course top news on the BBC :rolleyes:

 

Meekul to come on here saying 'BBTory' soon at that being the top headline! :D

 

Wow, if he did say it, this is definitively a major foot shooting incident, at a time when all political focus should be on the Conservative Party and their divisiveness at the minute.

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Of course it is. He actually said, stupid people, as confirmed by lip readers. Meanwhile, the Tory chancellor, the one that looks like a Dickensian Mr Burns, ACTUALLY DID SAY STUPID WOMAN to a Tory MP. The BBTory has ignored this.

See? BBTory desperately trying to aid its Tory masters.

 

Where are its headlines for this, or Mad May's pantomime act in the middle of Brexit?

 

Meekul to come on here saying 'BBTory' soon at that being the top headline! :D

 

Wow, if he did say it, this is definitively a major foot shooting incident, at a time when all political focus should be on the Conservative Party and their divisiveness at the minute.

It's the perfect distraction the Tories need right now to mess up Brexit whilst all the attention is on what Corbyn did or didn't say. Hope it becomes a non-story by tomorrow.

He didn't say it. BBTory is disgusting. Once Labour gets in they need to take away its news platform for good.

Keep in mind, those outraged over this are the same people who brought back an MP under investigation for rape/sexual harassment to give May a vote of confidence.

BBTory didn't even mention that either.

OF course, even if this was formulated as a distraction to make Labour look bad, it has ended up overshadowing an even bigger, genuine embarrassment for Labour, as one of their MPs has just been found guilty of perverting the course of justice. She's likely to resign and therefore force a by-election.

So it could be a blessing in disguise?

Well, I'm the first person to have brought it up, so quite possibly.

Having had a chance to look at the clip, and with the knowledge that I'm risking sounding like the article that Brendan O'Neill's probably already filed for Spiked -

 

It does look as if Jeremy Corbyn did indeed say "stupid people". But if he said "stupid woman", so what? If a person says something stupid, and said person is a woman, what's wrong with calling her a stupid woman? If a man says something stupid, there's nothing wrong with calling him a "stupid man". If you're calling someone stupid because she's a woman, that's a different thing altogether, but if the allegation of stupidity is due to their actions, rather than who they are, then I see no problem using such an epithet. People are using it as a way to attack Corbyn and/or get on their own moral high-horses (both within Labour and the Tories), when it's really a fuss over nothing.

 

Of course, I would never use such language myself anyway, I would never accuse anyone of being anything greater than a "silly sausage".