Sheffield Central Labour Candidate - Abtisam Mohamed vs Eddie Izzard

Well, I am sure that twitterengineer will come back and tell us whether or not they think 7 year old girls should have any choice about wearing it AND whether a group of males should be treated differently for safeguarding and, indeed, investigations into sexual assaults and rape claims.

Because that is what twiterengineer is calling Islamophobic and vilifying Kellie Jay Keen for saying should not happen.

Almost like some posters take their view from accusations from twitter without actually looking at what those accusations are based on.

Almost like some posters take every opportunity to shame non-conforming women who don’t agree with them and just repeat old trope to do so, while never genuinely engaging in topics. Just plop, admonish, demonise, denigrate and run.

Whatever could motivate that? Well, misogyny seems to continue to be very prevalent whatever the gender identity a male identifies as.

Seeing this headline made me want to move back to Sheffield just so that I could vote for whoever is standing opposite him.

FFS! So much for saving the planet!

Saw an excellent video interview of two female Iranian activists. Asked by presenter if wearing a hijab could be empowering as some in West think. They looked at him like he'd grown horns. And replied immediately saying it's repressive.

Izzard stands against a muslim woman active in the community, who's worked with excluded kids etc.

He's repugnant.

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OMIGOD that typo there. I did not mean to write bum journey!!! it was meant to read "um" - journey. ogodogodogdod

I was thinking about this this evening, and why it annoyed me so much. I realised that like so many people who share EI's -bum - journey, Eddie is mainly interested in Eddie, talks about Eddie, promotes Eddie, assumes we are interested, and is blithely convinced that whatever happens to suit Eddie, is automatically good for everyone.

This is tiresome in a 'sleb' but can be ignored with an eyeroll. It's completely the wrong set of priorities for an MP who is representing and serving 10s of 1000s of other people. It seems to me Eddie is all about the fantasy of standing up in the green benches and the attention, and I suspect, would struggle to focus on the real, dull, ordinary, difficult, tedious, unglamorous problems of actual Sheffield people.

Clearly there are many politicians who are similar - BJ and Truss spring to mind and from the past, Alan Clark was an obvious offender ("What shall I wear to my first cabinet meeting?" or whatever it was!) Labour has its share as well. They're all terrible. Someone as interested in themself as EI is, is wholly unsuited to be an MP, IMO.

I think Eddie Izzard is the most fame hungry celeb ever. He makes David Walliams look shy.

@NotNowFGS majority now would fall under Sheffield central.

It would be awful for the whole country if EI got in, an absolute joke. He's always been me, me, me. His whole act was about how selfish he is and labour seem to think it's OK to be associated with this. Labour need some decent new entries not joke candidates.

Sounds like Mike has the contacts to rustle up bums on seats for the vote?

That’s what it usually comes down to at these elections, women often lose out because other women find it harder to get to CLP meetings due to family commitments (and lefty men tend to chose other lefty men) - presume the vote is in-person, secret ballot?

My Labour MP has been in seat since before I joined/lived here, so I’ve only ever voted on cllr selections and internal party positions.

Mike Buckley has been Sheffield CLP campaign coordinator for quite a while so will probably have a good level of support within the constituency.

Just taking a moment to enjoy how close Sheffield Central is to Miriam Cates’ constituency…

who has made islamophobic remarks in the past

Tell us twitterengineer, do you think that any group of males should be protected in any way from being scrutinised when it comes to safeguarding children or women? That when investigating crimes against children and women no group should be considered untouchable for any reason?

Tell us teitterengineer do you understand how the Rotherham gang continued for so long? Are you not angry that a group of males raped and sexually assaulted children and there may have been unacceptable reasons they were not caught earlier?

Are you not determined to make sure that doesn’t happen again with ANY group of males?

Or are you just repeating things you have pick up on twitter without going and seeing the context of what she said and why?

Or did you just plop that post down again, as you typically do and never once answer the posts that point out your falsehoods?

And especially with Eddie - what’s his hold over Lorraine? There has got to be some back story!

I don't know what KJK said, but slagging off hijab on kids is a pretty mainstream view.

Abtisam_Mohamed is her Twitter handle, if anyone wants to find her on Twitter. Lots of evidence of her engagement with the community.

Quite. People talk a lot about how the hijab is empowering, but surely that can only be the case if you have a real choice about whether to wear it or not.

I live in this ward, EI got a lot of social media publicity for doorstep campaigning recently (lots of selfies).
However, I was appalled by their performance on BBC Question Time when it came from Sheffield some weeks ago, Louise Haigh (local labour MP, shadow cabinet I think) responded really calmly and knowledgably to a fairly aggressive line of questioning. EI seemed to give the same answer (that without a windfall tax, the energy companies should voluntarily handover their profits) to every single question - it was bizarre, he literally had nothing else to say.
For that reason and for the fact that Abtisam Mohammed has been working in and for Sheffield for some years, EI will not be getting my vote.
Interesting point made by PPs about a white privileged male parachuting in

They used to be. But they are gradually all moving nearer to the centre.

Not sure how Kelly-Jay Keen criticising the hijab is Islamophobic considering what is going on in Iran right now. It's about choice. You want to wear it? Fine. That's how you feel you want to present yourself to the God you believe in and the world around you. However, you don't get to force anyone else to do it.

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