Labour candidate who abused Joanna Cherry gets dumped

The Daily Mail stands up for women, yet again.

There’s a sentence I never thought I’d say.

The Daily Mail covered this a few days ago. I quite like their definition of TERF :

"Frances Hoole, who was selected for Edinburgh South West, was accused of posting a threatening tweet aimed at her rival, the SNP's Joanna Cherry.

The tweet had the slogan 'bang and the Terf [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] is gone'.

The term Terf is used to insult equality campaigners who do not agree that transgender rights take precedence over women's rights."

I'm glad they highlighted that it wasn't just the picture but also the word "terf" that was offensive.

Also very pleased to see Johann Lamont, who is standing for Lab in Glasgow South, taking Engender to task over their shocking thread about the Declaration on women's rights which emboldened all the violent misogynists.

I could understand a person doing a stupid thoughtless thing, without fully considering what it means. But it was her comments afterwards, which showed no remorse and implied the victim deserved such treatment because she isn't inclusive enough for this woman's liking!
I don't want people in power who, on some level, think it's okay to harm those who disagree with them.

I don't think this is any victory against the TRAs. The report I heard said it was deemed to be a problem because it was about throwing bleach at someone. No judgement on women's rights or the value of Joanna Cherry's work.

Which is actually (IMO) as it should be. I think TRA ideology is barking, but it's a legitimate political position. The flaw was not standing on a barking mad political position - do that and let the electorate decide. The flaw was threatening her political opponent with violence.

Aww bless the wean. I suppose they (sing) has (sing) more time on their (sing) hands now.

It seems that some people are learning-phobic:

twitter.com/FCH00LE/status/1192843639757647872

Some women are discovering that their ‘fab and fun’ new pals are just nasty little piss takers who don’t really give a shit about them.

They're dropping like flies at the moment, and I have some sympathy for this one:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-50338256

...having used that analogy myself in the past.

I don't think this is any victory against the TRAs. The report I heard said it was deemed to be a problem because it was about throwing bleach at someone. No judgement on women's rights or the value of Joanna Cherry's work. :(

She reposted it and gleefully commented on it (and I believed had no shame until she got the boot)

She attempted to DARVO Joanna Cherry.

I agree.

She reposted it and gleefully commented on it (and I believed had no shame until she got the boot). So not an accidental/thoughtless act.

To be fair to her she didn't create the meme. a woke young man did: He was afterwards exposed as having been racist, misogynistic and yes even transphobic in the past on Twitter and deleted his account.

Colour me surprised.

To be fair, the fact she didn’t create the meme is irrelevant.

It was a reply to a specific point that she couldn't have failed to notice the content because she made it herself. She didn't. That's all. It doesn't absolve her from tweeting it, and she was the political candidate, not him.

The Jo Cox Foundation probably weren't too pleased with her publicizing being a graduate of one of their schemes...

The Jo Cox Foundation rejected Jo Bartosch's application for its women in leadership foundation in favour of er... other applicants, for example, Heather Peto.

No she was played. A silly immature woman played by a obnoxious man. How could we trust her on anything?

I hope she is sorry, I hope she can learn to see other people's perspectives.

She’s a woman and expendable. Imagine if they had dropped one of the ‘others’ for similar (and worse) behaviour?
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

To be fair, the fact she didn’t create the meme is irrelevant.

(having photoshopped an existing image to tell a story I wished to portray I then decided to tweet it but on reflection I just didn't look close enough...incredible....)

To be fair to her she didn't create the meme. a woke young man did: He was afterwards exposed as having been racist, misogynistic and yes even transphobic in the past on Twitter and deleted his account.

Really good news. The Jo Cox Foundation probably weren't too pleased with her publicizing being a graduate of one of their schemes...

Yay!

Good.