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Angela Eagle's broken "office window" is actually on the communal hallway...

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LowDudgeon · 16/07/2016 14:31

So they stuck a Labour poster over it to make it look like hers

All the images used were taken from an angle that didn't show the staircase.

They just keep getting caught out, don't they. John McDonnell's comment might have been inappropriate but he wasn't wrong Grin

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bakeoffcake · 16/07/2016 18:07

"There's nastiness on both sides"

Can you show me evidence of AE side sending threatening, illegal emails/Facebook messages?

And what is your opinion on JC Voting AGAINST a secret vote at the resent LP meeting, despite pleas by frightened LP workers?

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LowDudgeon · 16/07/2016 17:56

The fact remains that it has been widely reported, & never publicly contradicted, that a brick was thrown through her constituency office window, even though it wasn't thrown through her constituency office window.

If there were threats of bricks, or notes tied to bricks, those would most definitely have been reported, wouldn't they? The anti-Corbyn brigade doesn't miss the minutest opportunity to fan the flames of opposition to him.

Incidentally the claim that she had to cancel a meeting at a hotel in Luton due to threats also wasn't true (& that hasn't been publicly contradicted by her side either). The hotel don't hold political meetings at all & they cancelled it when they found out what the booking was for.

m.luton-dunstable.co.uk/hotel-pulls-the-plug-on-angela-eagle-meeting-in-luton-this-afternoon/story-29502451-detail/story.html

There is nastiness on both sides, I don't like it, but I don't see how anybody can stop it - I mean seriously, he's supposed to have control over anybody who likes to send nasty emails? Maybe there'd be a bit less nastiness if there was less hype reported as fact?

(I have only heard of one use of "coxed" & that was in the letter allegedly delivered to one of the Portland PR people.)

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oldbirdy · 16/07/2016 16:44

Right. And I guess the online intimidation of people who support Eagle and Eagle herself is also imaginary? Was it the PLP inventing thousands of Facebook logins to abuse anyone who speaks against Corbyn? I guess the threats of being 'coxed' are by the PLP or their supporters as well, and everyone supporting Corbyn is entirely innocent of any and all threats or use of intimidator tactics? In which case why has Corbyn had to ask people not to do it?

I don't support Eagle, as it happens. I don't think 99 percent of Corbyn supporters are anything other than ordinary people who don't use violence and intimidation. I do think there is an issue of verbal aggression online which I have personally experienced and MPs claim to have experienced worse. I find it abhorrent that rather than say swe don't think this was one of us, but if it was a Corbyn supporter, we absolutely do not agree with these tactics' you think it is better to yet again smear her as fucking useless in McConnell's words. And in the movement, many are suggesting it was she herself (I suspect she knows which one is her office window, don't you?) .

bakeoffcake · 16/07/2016 16:35

Excuse typos!

bakeoffcake · 16/07/2016 16:34

How do they know AE didn't recieve a threat saying they were going to throw a brick through her window, or it had something tied to the brick (like they did in films) showing who it was for? You and the person who made this film don't know, so why come to such a ridiculous conclusions with only half the evidence?

Do you realise that someone was arrested this week for sending a message to Angela, with threatened murder? And she has had many, many such messages, as have her supporters.

I watched a piece on Chanel 4 news this week, where a woman Labour Party worker was on the verge of tears for the entire interview, as she listed examples of disgusting messages and threats she and others had received. She also highlighted the fact that many women had asked for a secret vote at the recent meeting and Jeremy Corbyn voted against this, despite pleads from women who told him they were extremely frightened for their own safety.

What a lovely thing to do to your vulnerable, threaten "comrades".

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LowDudgeon · 16/07/2016 16:17

If it was intimidation, why not smash the actual office window, which was just round the corner?

Unless they didn't know it was there?

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LowDudgeon · 16/07/2016 16:15

Where's the evidence it was intimidation & not vandalism or burglary?

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oldbirdy · 16/07/2016 15:22

Ffs, whether it is on a communal hallway or her office isn't the issue. It's that some idiot thinks hurling bricks through windows to intimidate people is acceptable.

HirplesWithHaggis · 16/07/2016 15:20

During the run up to the indyref, Ian Murray (Labour MP) claimed his office had been vandalised by cybernats. Turned out it was a Yes sticker on the window...