MP resigns over white van/English flag tweet

[Hol]

carinaman said:

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.

I guess he means this bit (taken from a few posts earlier:

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.

imacelebrity said:

Digga,



......Its not you.


But it could be Carinaman,

(or Perhaps her old man could have buggered off to NY with all the cash and left her and mum in a council house with no money to buy any flags???)

Edited by Hol on Friday 21st November 16:18

[carinaman]

Digga said:

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.

I was reading up on her late lastnight. I think from Wikipedia, her mother was a Teacher and her parents split up when she was seven so maybe she grew up in a Council house after her parents divorced?

Reading through Wikipedia is says she stood up against Brown's detention plan for suspected terrorists, which was basically using bogeymen as a political football to show who was hardest on terrorists. I'd back her up on that one.

She's probably not all bad and the Tweet could have been an ill considered school day out like gaffe during the hustings. It's not the sort of conduct I'd expect from a Barrister in their 50s.

[Digga]

carinaman said:

Reading through Wikipedia is says she stood up against Brown's detention plan for suspected terrorists, which was basically using bogeymen as a political football to show who was hardest on terrorists. I'd back her up on that one.

She's probably not all bad and the Tweet could have been an ill considered school day out like gaffe during the hustings. It's not the sort of conduct I'd expect from a Barrister in their 50s.

Maybe, but I have a suspicion that, like much of the Labour elite, she would like the working classes 'in theory', but that really means as they were at least 30 or 40 years back.

[don4l]

Ed Miliband has been interviewed by Sky.

Reporter: “What goes through your mind when you see a white van outside a house?”

Hapless Ed: “What goes through my mind is respect.”

[carinaman]

If Ed is with the Staines Massive that could be a vote winner.

[Morningside]

I can hear the crys now "Tory toff, Tory toff".

What?

Shes what party?

Oh.

[Stevanos]

M3333 said:

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 buys the Sun?

[anonymous-user]

don4l said:

Ed Miliband has been interviewed by Sky.

Reporter: “What goes through your mind when you see a white van outside a house?”

Hapless Ed: “What goes through my mind is respect.”

I think they've reached the point where he just needs to stop talking now.

[paranoid airbag]

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

I might be being dense, why is that a DT video of a event organised by the Sun?

Sun photoshoots tend to make people look like tossers regardless of who they are. Don't know why, there's probably a page 3 pun in there...

[Chris Type R]

paranoid airbag said:

I might be being dense, why is that a DT video of a event organised by the Sun?

Sun photoshoots tend to make people look like tossers regardless of who they are. Don't know why, there's probably a page 3 pun in there...

Something about knockers and hard wood ?

[Johnnytheboy]

I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. Labour hasn't really been the party of the patriotic self employed since, well, ever.

Someone called Emily from Islington sounds far more like their core vote.

[M3333]

Pothole said:

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

wow.

So what? It is nice to see the politicians getting some stick, they deserve it. They spend far too much time buried up the ivory towers to care about the ordinary hard working man on the street. So what if the Sun paid him? If he makes a few quid and it humiliates some stuck up snob then good on him.

Well i am giving him the benefit of the doubt that he pays his taxes and assume he is honest, why would i judge otherwise, i would imagine that the Labour party are currently doing anything in their power to discredit him to win back some credibility. We will see.

Thanks for your kind assumptions about me! I am not lazy or lacking in respect, but thanks all the same. I think maybe from the start of this your assumptions were based on the picture of what you perceived the be a 'chav'. Your words not mine. My mind can expand and be a bit more open and less cynical.

[Gandahar]

Let's face it, if I told you he drove a Vauxhall Corsa with 20 inch wheels and loud exhaust you'd suddenly be up in arms !

Labour politician v chav, tough choice for the normal PH right wing middle class Audi 3.0TDI A5 driver to know who to back

Shoot both of them is what I say.

See, sorted.

[oddman]

Same as Gordon Brown with his 'bigoted woman' gaffe

The mask drops and Labour show their contempt for those they purport to represent

[smegmore]

oddman said:

Same as Gordon Brown with his 'bigoted woman' gaffe

The mask drops and Labour show their contempt for those they purport to represent

[lord trumpton]

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.

Agreed, He looks exactly like the bloke that I would hate to have living near me...

st van
Shaved head
England st everywhere
Noisy summer BBQ's
Couple of barking staffordshire bull terriers
Diesely noises at the crack of dawn
Oil stains on the drive
Dogst on the lawn
Bacon butties every day
Sun reader
Noisy arguments with his wife
Leaves his st van anywhere he feels like it

I could go on....

[smegmore]

lord trumpton said:

I can't unfortunately, my teeth are sat here in a glass of bleach, sorry.

[RichB]

oddman said:

Same as Gordon Brown with his 'bigoted woman' gaffe

The mask drops and Labour show their contempt for those they purport to represent

+2

[steveT350C]

lord trumpton 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.

Agreed, He looks exactly like the bloke that I would hate to have living near me...

st van
Shaved head
England st everywhere
Noisy summer BBQ's
Couple of barking staffordshire bull terriers
Diesely noises at the crack of dawn
Oil stains on the drive
Dogst on the lawn
Bacon butties every day
Sun reader
Noisy arguments with his wife
Leaves his st van anywhere he feels like it

I could go on....

He reminds me of a guy I met a few years ago in the Poachers pub in Chalfont St. Peter.

Big guy, used to be in the army. Had a kind face, but kind of sad at the same time.

Suffered with depression, or PTSD type illness. Wife had left him, he was drinking too much, hence met him in pub. Saw him on and off for a few weeks. Hope he is OK.



You see what you want to see.

[Mr_B]

lord trumpton said:

Agreed, He looks exactly like the bloke that I would hate to have living near me...

st van
Shaved head
England st everywhere
Noisy summer BBQ's
Couple of barking staffordshire bull terriers
Diesely noises at the crack of dawn
Oil stains on the drive
Dogst on the lawn
Bacon butties every day
Sun reader
Noisy arguments with his wife
Leaves his st van anywhere he feels like it

I could go on....

Do you do the same act with anyone other than the white Englishman ?