Billy Bragg having a dig at Mumsnet

Yeah, fair enough Arabella, I’d forgotten that. He’s an old school misogynist in rainbow clothing. And a prat of course.

i must have missed the letter @WarriorN -what did it say? More insults to women I’m guessing…😬

This Billy?

The rest of your comment is on the money, just misses out his love for high end Dorset property values!

Means well?

Do I really have to go digging for that guardian letter he wrote?

I suspect he means well, but he’s a poorly educated man (one “o” level according to the Guardian article I posted earlier) whose job is unlikely to have improved his critical thinking skills (die hard adoring fans only by this stage I imagine) and who has an over inflated opinion of the rightness of his own views. His black and white “my side right or wrong” thinking, honed by the Thatcher and Corbyn years, is probably what’s lead him here. Gender ideology is generally the approved thinking for left wingers and his schtick is tub thumping to get relevance. He won’t change until the Left can no longer shut its eyes and ears to the damage this ideology does to kids and women.

He's upset with us, oh dear, how sad, nevermind

Depressing isn't it? And yet - all too familiar.

I saw the Barton thread and thought it was strange, at the time, that someone would create a thread, “yeh for Barton”, and post it through terf islands letterbox.

Have been watching this to see if the terfy detectives, who have far more knowledge than me about the workings of mumsnet would figure it out.

I think either he planted it to prove what a bunch nazis we all are

Or he was pissed off because he caught it too late to get any proof we are all nazis.

those two scenario’s are the only way to interpret his post on twitter, otherwise it is makes no sense.

Just in case he reads this, I am left wing, have seen you a few times, the view that anyone who is not left wing ,is bad bad bad just shows me what a juvenile idiot you are.

Oh and you are now irrelevant to me, a geezer stuck in your time,

Ive moved on.

Wish you Billy no mates would just push off.

There was that female MP who did similar and then said they were reporting entire website to police. I did like MN towers response to that querying why it's always one of the few female dominated sites that people like this attack.

yep

Along with his decades long unhealthy obsession with Joey Barton.
Both women hating yesterday men trying to keep themselves relevant to the Yoof.
Yawn.

Perhaps MNHQ could do a Butler on Bragg 😀

"Who is he?"

Ha, I had some teenage relatives here recently and the subject of Billy Bragg came up, they'd never heard of him either.

I explained that he was a pop singer decades ago but no-one listens to him now. They looked up one of his songs on YouTube and their pained expressions said it all. 😂

This sounds likely to me.

There was that female MP who did similar and then said they were reporting entire website to police. I did like MN towers response to that querying why it's always one of the few female dominated sites that people like this attack.

Jeezus, is that tuneless fud still trying to stay relevant by shitting on women 🙄

We used to see a lot of that, didn’t we? I thought it had stopped, though, as I hadn’t spotted any new ones for at least a year or two.

I assumed the sock-puppeteers had either got bored or had had their IP addresses blocked.

Wow the feminist movement has changed.

There are few things more unedifying than performative socialists with £££ in the bank telling the rest of us what to think.

It's even worse if they're also misogynistic idiots and are preaching at women.

I don’t think he actually follows MN. That would entail reading the thoughts of women.

I get the feeling someone sent a link to a deleted thread to him, misrepresenting it and because he’s one of those Blokes Who Is Never Wrong he’s slapped it on Twitter with his own take being The Troof.

Billy, you’re an old, white privileged man telling women what to do.

We’ve heard it all before, so you can just fuck right off.

Yes. This is sad. He used to be a hero of mine. I never minded when he moved out to Dorset — many of my relatives moved out of London (most to Essex) when they earned enough. I don’t mind anyone improving their lives as they wish.

But oh, the misogyny, the dishonesty, the fingers-in-ears refusal to understand why women need our own spaces or why children shouldn’t be experimented on.

Why, Billy? Why?

The general impression I get is Billy Bragg is calling Mumsnet a Nazi. Is that the size of it?

I can only assume he posted the thread himself 👋 or his fan sent it to him. His comment is weird though, I'll assume he's quoting the thread heading. I think he was sent a link but didn't click it fast enough to see the thread so was trying to smear MN with the thin beer he was left with?

This was my response, too. WTF is he actually even talking about? Who, and what? He sounds like a conspiracy theorist with a woman problem.

And decided to blame all the women on it instead of asking HQ why they deleted it!

Or maybe he did. And they told him. And added a friendly 'go well', just for a good measure 😁