Female candidate posts meme threatening Joanna Cherry with bleach.

And I'm just staggered that this woman has been through the Jo Cox leadership programme. It is no tribute to Jo Cox that the foundation in her name is producing politicians like Frances here. An absolute travesty and completely disrespectful to the memory of a murdered woman.

Never mind hate crime, why is this kind of behaviour from TRAs not treated as terrorism? Threatening violence to politicians and intimidating the public in pursuit of a political outcome is the very definition of terrorism.

She’s a 22 year old numpty, Pthagonal Yes, she really is that naive! Totally unsuited as a candidate in grown up politics, but that goes without saying.

Cherry is an out lesbian, so perhaps she can pursue it as a homophobic hate crime.

She could, yes. And, if she did, there would be absolutely nothing Frances could do about it. Frances's motives and intentions - her "perceptions" - would be irrelevant. Joanna's perception would be all that counted. It would be counted in the hate crime statistics that wokesters like Frances love to quote.

And if Frances doesn't like the idea of being a hate criminal then perhaps she might like to do a bit of MN-style digging for Fair Cop.

Cherry is an out lesbian, so perhaps she can pursue it as a homophobic hate crime. As lesbian women make up a significant element of the GC grouping, it looks very much like indirect homophobic discrimination.

That's a good point, LangCleg. This would be an example of hate crime, surely? I guess women don't count when it comes to hate crime, though. Unless they are women*.

In the 2015 wipeout, Labour's only MP in Scotland was Ian Murray in Edinburgh South, next door to Cherry. He only got back in because the SNP candidate was found out posting offensive messages online under a pseudonym.

You'd think people would learn lessons.

“I didn't perceive this as a threat so I apologise I didn't see it that way.”

Unless the English language has lost all meaning, she's also not apologising for sending a threat to a competing candidate, but giving a metaphorical shrug of "well if you want to take offence, I can't stop you". (Which is a classic tool found in the extensive toolbox of any abuser).

Additionally, Frances can't have it both ways. Either soi disant "hate crime" is in the eye of the beholder or it isn't. What Frances did or did not perceive is irrelevant. What Joanna perceived is the only factor at play. The police and the CPS say so.

Perhaps Frances should investigate the Fair Cop campaign if she doesn't want to be a hate criminal?

She may have been sent that meme, but she didn't have to repost it, especially hoping that Joanna Cherry would 'taste the rainbow'. Is she that naive that she really didn't see that as a threat?

3. Frances may be an immature young woman who shouldn’t be in that position, but she said she was sent that meme. I’d love to know who sent it to her - and who created it in the first place.

Some woke male trans ally. He posted on the thread where Hoole "apologised" with a DARVO.on GC feminists. See Wings Over Scotland and ForWomen Scotland who both challenged him.

1. It’s appalling and has rightly been condemned.

1. It’s Scotland: different laws on self-id, they have their own affiliated parties and elect their own candidates.

1. Frances may be an immature young woman who shouldn’t be in that position, but she said she was sent that meme. I’d love to know who sent it to her - and who created it in the first place.

1. Let’s not pretend that the SNP is GC and doesn’t have its own share of TRA lunatics.

1. Having said that, Joanne Cherry is fantastic and hopefully this will give her a clear run for re-election. We certainly need her!

Labour really is beyond pathetic at this point, and I am going canvassing for them tomorrow.what a world we live in!

MP threatening another MP

This definitely looks like a Momentum candidate.

issues

Would I be right in thinking that it has been the local constituency party that selects these candidates? Does anyone know? If yes, that would explain it, I suppose, since they seem to mainly be filled with Momentum activists now.
There have been issued with candidates being imposed from a central list of activists into cop's in some areas. Not sure about this case. But same result. Momentum running the party at every level.

Scottish Labour are the political equivalent of the Marie Celeste these days. The rise of the SNP and the complete refusal of ScotLab to countenance any notion of iScot have decimated it.

Labour's commitment to repelling the votes of more than half the population is as baffling as it is unwavering

It makes me fairly stressed, but I don't know how to be anything else.

Someone has to be an optimist, if everyone constantly felt as I do the human race would have gone extinct years ago.

If you continue, others will do too, you are one of many and it's important to be one of many, because you are inspiring others.

Stupid thing to do

Looks like the contact email is [email protected]

Sorry the letter's about Hoole but darned spellchecker changed it sorry

Great letter to the Jo Cox Foundation about Google. J think we should all follow suit

wingsoverscotland.com/a-letter-to-the-jo-cox-foundation/

Even the illusion of speaking for the public and caring for the people isn't being used any more.