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Bergdorf has resigned as LGBT advisor to the Labour party

24 replies

CapnHaddock · 06/03/2018 12:03

Ahahahahaha

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YetAnotherSpartacus · 06/03/2018 12:04

Link?

FencingFightingTorture35 · 06/03/2018 12:09

Good!

buckbeak · 06/03/2018 12:09

GrinGrinGrin

walkingtheplank · 06/03/2018 12:11

So it's all the fault of the Conservative Party and right wing press? No apology from Bergdorf on their own racism, mysoginy etc.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 06/03/2018 12:21

Thanks antimatter!

ShotsFired · 06/03/2018 12:23

Slightly different take by The Times, which opens with...

A Labour Party adviser on LGBT+ issues has resigned after The Times revealed that she had called a Twitter follower a “hairy barren lesbian” and that she wanted to “gay bash” a television star.

Share link: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labours-lgbt-adviser-munroe-bergdorf-resigns-after-controversial-tweets-bb20mq3hv?shareToken=133c7346f9058bf86eb334cdbe619013

Trueheart1 · 06/03/2018 12:25

I am starting to love the Times

ShotsFired · 06/03/2018 12:25

One of the BTL commenters asks a very pertinent question too:

rahb 2 minutes ago
What about Dawn Butler's position now?

After all, she's a woman so there is probably a better man for the job Hmm

YetAnotherSpartacus · 06/03/2018 12:31

Ah. The real story emerges. Toddles off to check how the Graun covers up ...

nauticant · 06/03/2018 12:31

The first two paragraphs of The Times article are a thing of beauty:

A Labour Party adviser on LGBT+ issues has resigned after The Times revealed that she had called a Twitter follower a “hairy barren lesbian” and that she wanted to “gay bash” a television star. = this article is about an abusive person

Munroe Bergdorf, a transgender model and campaigner, announced this morning that she had stepped down from her position and blamed “attacks on my character by the conservative rightwing press” = and this abusive person is attacking papers like this one and by implication you

Cowsopinion · 06/03/2018 12:32

Oh no.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 06/03/2018 12:33

This is pretty bad for Labour too, showing up how woefully poor their judgement is.

CapnHaddock · 06/03/2018 12:37

Sorry for lack of link, it was on the radio.

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TheGoldenBough · 06/03/2018 12:49

Good grief! What a thoroughly unpleasant individual...

Maplessglobe · 06/03/2018 12:53

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Mner · 06/03/2018 12:54

Excellent news : )

CompanionUnderstands · 06/03/2018 12:57

What about Dawn Butler's position now?

After all, she's a woman so there is probably a better man for the job

Give it time.

TerfsUp · 06/03/2018 13:00

The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/06/model-munroe-bergdorf-quits-as-labour-lgbt-adviser has mentioned this in its inimitable way: "Model Munroe Bergdorf quits as Labour LGBT adviser

Her appointment was criticised by Conservatives because of previous social media comments"

Erm. Except not. The article quotes some of Bergdorf's comments:

"She has been criticised for social media posts in which she wrote that she no longer had the energy to talk about the “racial violence of white people any more”.

The post, published in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August last year, continued: “Yes ALL white people. Because most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour. Your entire existence is drenched in racism.”

Other tweets highlighted by Conservatives, included the party’s vice-chair Helen Grant, included one where Bergdorf said the suffragettes were “white supremacists who were fighting for WHITE women’s rights” and another in which she called gay Tory activists a “special kind of dickhead”."

However, the article fails to mention the alleged "attacks in the tabloid press and by Conservatives over comments she had made". The link to Conservatives in the article takes you to this page www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives.

When are people going to learn that what you post on social media can be read by millions of people and, if you write something incredibly stupid (are you paying attention, Toby Young?), it may very well come back to bite you on the arse?

howlsmovingcastle84 · 06/03/2018 13:01

Did anyone else see Jo Co handle this on Daily Politics?? 🙂 short but worth a viewing

MorrisZapp · 06/03/2018 13:01

The BBC story is balanced and mentions tweets made in the last year about suffragettes and gay tories.

Lottapianos · 06/03/2018 13:04

But of course it's everybody else's fault Hmm This person can't seem to take responsibility for anything

TerfsUp · 06/03/2018 13:04

Another charming comment by Bergdorf: "“Once white people begin to admit that their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth... then we can talk.”

It should be noted that Bergdorf's mother is white.

Labour just continues to keep shooting itself in the foot. It's the political party equivalent of The Guardian.

TerfsUp · 06/03/2018 13:07

I am finding the whole affair vastly amusing:

"The Times subsequently discovered offensive tweets that she had written aimed at other parts of the LGBT+ community. In an exchange with a friend on Twitter in 2012 she wrote: “Aren’t you meant to be crying over the fact that your womb is broken you hairy barren lesbian.” She criticised a singer on television, saying: “You have to admit she did look like a butch LEZZA tho.” Other tweets referred to followers as a “saggy ol dyke” and an “old poof”.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labours-lgbt-adviser-munroe-bergdorf-resigns-after-controversial-tweets-bb20mq3hv?shareToken=133c7346f9058bf86eb334cdbe619013

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