MP resigns over white van/English flag tweet

MP resigns over white van/English flag tweet

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smegmore

3,091 posts

175 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Justayellowbadge said:
Title?

Not defending her, but isn't she a council girl herself?
She's council, from Guildford.

There was a reference to her as 'Lady Nugee' on Guido's blog, no idea what it refers to, can't get interested enough to check it out smile


dandarez said:
She takes me back to 1967 and Pink Floyd...

'Emily tries but misunderstands, ahh ooooh'

hehe
'See Emily Play'

How appropriate.

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RobinBanks

17,540 posts

178 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Justayellowbadge said:
Title?

Not defending her, but isn't she a council girl herself?
Lady Nugee (as a result of marriage, I think.)

Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Justayellowbadge said:
Title?

Not defending her, but isn't she a council girl herself?
Dafuq? Clever "legal counsel" pun?

BBC article said:
The 54-year-old entered Parliament as MP for Islington South and Finsbury in 2005 and served as shadow energy and health spokeswoman before taking the role of shadow attorney general in 2011.

The daughter of a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, she was born in Surrey and was called to the bar in 1983, specialising in criminal law.
I'd tend to agree that she sounds like just the sort of Common Purpose twerp most people detest in politics. All the three main parties are riddled with these types.

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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smegmore said:
Justayellowbadge said:
Title?

Not defending her, but isn't she a council girl herself?
She's council, from Guildford.

There was a reference to her as 'Lady Nugee' on Guido's blog, no idea what it refers to, can't get interested enough to check it out smile


dandarez said:
She takes me back to 1967 and Pink Floyd...

'Emily tries but misunderstands, ahh ooooh'

hehe
'See Emily Play'

How appropriate.

biggrin
According to Wikipedia:

The Nugee bit comes from her husband. He's a QC.

She's a council girl that sent her kid(s) to a public school 14 miles away that takes in some kids for free or on bursaries from where it used be before it relocated in the early 70s.


Regarding the Pink Floyd comments, I've recently heard of Syd Arthur's Hometown Blues and then to Sound Mirror that sounds a bit Floyd and Byrds to me.

BJG1

5,966 posts

211 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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scenario8 said:
No. Just a minor shuffling around of responsibilities into and/or within the Shadow Cabinet. She remains an MP and faces her electorate in May (assuming she's re-selected).
I imagine her sentiment is widely shared in her borough of Islington - will probably win the scummy cow votes.

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Mr_B said:
The man in question turns up at one of her homes, and he don't look happy. Hyacinth Bucket, I mean Emily, was nowhere to be seen though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L-XHmsm5DU



Edited by Mr_B on Friday 21st November 15:03


Edited by Mr_B on Friday 21st November 15:26
I reckon he's justified her attitude.

creampuff

6,511 posts

142 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Did she actually write anything or was it just a pic?

smegmore

3,091 posts

175 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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BJG1 said:
I imagine her sentiment is widely shared in her borough of Islington - will probably win the scummy cow votes.
No need for that kind of thing.

Scummist.

scenario8

6,554 posts

178 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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In her ultra-urban constituency I doubt the scummy cow vote adds up to much anyway.

Magog

2,652 posts

188 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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One of the flags seems to have a West Ham Badge on it, maybe she's a big Millwall fan.

Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Pothole said:
I reckon he's justified her attitude.
How so, exactly?

Is he not entitled to talk to her about the very public aspersions she cast about him and his home? I don;t actually see anything else being attempted here. IMHO, if you're a public figure making (very) public comments about private individuals, then it should all be out in the open.

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Farage could stand against her, but I am not sure if Islington is a very UKIP tolerant place?

With regard to the soccer internationals being on, Rooney can get a hair transplant. Emily Thornberry can't get a head transplant.

Perhaps she'd be better suited to being one of those Barristers that makes Coffee?

smegmore

3,091 posts

175 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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carinaman said:
Perhaps she'd be better suited to being one of those Barristers that makes Coffee?
Is this a euphemism?

Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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carinaman said:
According to Wikipedia:

The Nugee bit comes from her husband. He's a QC.

She's a council girl that sent her kid(s) to a public school 14 miles away that takes in some kids for free or on bursaries from where it used be before it relocated in the early 70s.
Is it me, or does this not quite tally with the BBC version I posted above your comment?

At any rate, I'd question her suitability as an MP with that attitude and it certainly makes me wonder about her suitability and impartiality in law.

BJG1

5,966 posts

211 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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scenario8 said:
In her ultra-urban constituency I doubt the scummy cow vote adds up to much anyway.
She is a scummy cow, was what I meant.

M3333

2,259 posts

213 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Pothole said:
Mr_B said:
The man in question turns up at one of her homes, and he don't look happy. Hyacinth Bucket, I mean Emily, was nowhere to be seen though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L-XHmsm5DU



Edited by Mr_B on Friday 21st November 15:03


Edited by Mr_B on Friday 21st November 15:26
I reckon he's justified her attitude.
Why?

From what I can see he has bought his house. He goes out to work. He pays his taxes. Like millions of other people he is probably struggling on doing his fair of grafting and putting food on the table. That politician is an utter disgrace and portrays one of the many things wrong with the left wing political elite whom run the Labour Party sneering down on anyone who does not fit the mold.


Edited by M3333 on Friday 21st November 15:55

Hol

8,361 posts

199 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Guybrush said:
Chris Type R said:
Mrr T said:
The working class should always be represented by a person with a title who lives in a £3M home.
I wonder if she'll be paying the "mansion tax".
One can be pretty certain that MPs will create some sort of weasely exemption.
At least this is her main residence - being in her constituencty and in London?

As such, she isn't able to clain the mortgage costs as an expense.


carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Digga said:
Is it me, or does this not quite tally with the BBC version I posted above your comment?
Sorry Digga, I am not too sure what you mean? If I seem to be repeating your post it could have been that my replies to threads can take a while.

From Wikipedia:

Wikipedia on Emily Thornberry said:
In April 2005 it emerged that Thornberry had sent her son to the selective Dame Alice Owen's School fourteen miles away from her home and outside her constituency. The school was formerly based in Islington and still reserves ten percent of its places for Islington pupils. (54) The Labour Party opposes selection and Thornberry was widely criticised over the issue as a result. (55) Chris Woodhead, the former chief inspector of schools stated "I celebrate her good sense as a parent and deplore her hypocrisy as a politician. When will those who espouse the virtues of comprehensive education apply the logic of their political message to their children?"
Wikipedia on Emily Thornberry said:
Thornberry has lived in Islington since the early 1990s. In July 1991 she married fellow-barrister Christopher Nugee, of Wilberforce Chambers,[52] in Tower Hamlets, and they have two sons (born December 1991 and July 1999) and a daughter (born November 1993). Nugee later became a Queen's Counsel, then a High Court judge, and was knighted. Since 1993 they have lived on Richmond Crescent, Barnsbury, where Tony Blair also lived until the 1997 general election, moving in on the same day as the Blairs.[citation needed] She also part-owns properties in Guildford and South London.[46][53]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Thornberry#Controversies

I've quoted Wikipedia to show the sources.

Digga said:
At any rate, I'd question her suitability as an MP with that attitude and it certainly makes me wonder about her suitability and impartiality in law.
I agree.

Wikipedia says she joined the Transport & General Workers Union in 1985? If that's true I am not sure where that sits with sneering at Transit Man?


Has she left herself open to Hate crime legislation?

Where does her Tweet fit with Internet 'trolling'?

Edited by carinaman on Friday 21st November 16:09

Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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It was just that the BBC said "The daughter of a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, she was born in Surrey". Didn't seem to quite fit with the Wikki bit, that's all.

And yes, you're right, you can bet, were the guy not white, working class, then a hate crime would be on the cards.

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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M3333 said:
Pothole said:
Mr_B said:
The man in question turns up at one of her homes, and he don't look happy. Hyacinth Bucket, I mean Emily, was nowhere to be seen though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L-XHmsm5DU



Edited by Mr_B on Friday 21st November 15:03


Edited by Mr_B on Friday 21st November 15:26
I reckon he's justified her attitude.
Why?

From what I can see he has bought his house. He goes out to work. He pays his taxes. Like millions of other people he is probably struggling on doing his fair of grafting and putting food on the table. That politician is an utter disgrace and portrays one of the many things wrong with the left wing political elite whom run the Labour Party sneering down on anyone who does not fit the mold.


Edited by M3333 on Friday 21st November 15:55
He's decided to accept an offer from the Sun to visit her property, perhaps with a view to confronting her. Seems like a chav to me.

ETA: How the hell do you know he pays his taxes? You don't have any more of a clue about him than the dozy mare who posted the picture. your assumption is just as lazy and lacking in respect.


Edited by Pothole on Friday 21st November 17:14