Rosie Duffield and threats

should think they are, just behind the scenes.
Stuff like this is what Lindsey Hoyle was talking about when he moved the order of voting round for the Gaza vote.

Behind the scenes isn't good enough when it's not safe for her to attend her own hustings.

Has KS come out and said anything in support of Jess Phillips, Stella Creasey or Diane Abbott?

None of them, as far as I'm aware, were in too much danger to attend their hustings?

Need to point out here that Harriet Harman couldn't reply to Rosie. No one can reply to Rosie's original tweet because of the privacy settings.

I don't use twitter but I understand people can do the same as on MN. Quote posts and add a comment? So Harriet could've, if she'd wanted to show support, done that.

But at what cost to her? She is easily accessible as an MP - look at what recently happened to Farage - and I worry that she will get hurt. She is amazing but I do think that she is trapped in an abusive relationship with Labour.

I think shes doing the right thing by staying. There are people who want to bully her away from standing for labour and being an MP at all, so she needs to stand her ground, otherwise theyll do it to every women who speaks out.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/98c13435-5368-435c-9c78-d803c0030712?shareToken=f4fdef470505b768e9c92409da5239cc

She's a champ for staying in the party, despite the hostility tacitly condoned all the way to the top

Oh I would walk too, but I still think that by staying, she's shining a light on it all that she wouldn't be able to do as well once outside. I admire that but I do worry for her.

I feel the same but I honestly think that at this point I would walk. Enough now.

Starmer's words on VAWG are sounding very hollow this morning.

I'm torn on this one. Part of me is yelling, 'Get out Rosie, get out now!'. On the other hand I do think that the best way she can highlight Labour's incoherence and intolerance is by staying.

But that's really hypocritical of me because nothing on earth would induce me to go back and deal with those tossers again (and I was just a nobody from nowhere town).

I'm sure the abuse combined with the lack of support from within - which she's talked about, e.g. in the Times interview - must be taking a terrible toll and I worry for her.

I wish there was a way of filtering out certain posters.

The nonsense of pointing out the horrendous abuse and risk that all politicians expose themselves to every day in their public service? OK

I should think they are, just behind the scenes.

Everything she has said or written (often linked to on these threads, so easy to find or Google if anyone wants to) says exactly the opposite - that there has been no support whatsoever, except perhaps recently, and not particularly strongly, from Wes Streeting.

Gosh I wish there was a way of filtering out nonsense.

I don't know why you think a woman who would write an article like that would be contributing to violent death threats. I thought it was quite a clear and logical setting out of the Authors position. We do have freedom of speech so she's entirely within her rights to publish it.

The "friends of Israel" thing is the reason Jess Phillips has been getting threats as well.

I should think they are, just behind the scenes.
Stuff like this is what Lindsey Hoyle was talking about when he moved the order of voting round for the Gaza vote.
Has KS come out and said anything in support of Jess Phillips, Stella Creasey or Diane Abbott?
Heidi Allen left politics over this kind of abuse. Jo Cox and David Amess lost their lives over it. It is horrendous, its horrendous for Duffield. I'm just saying it may not be as simple as she is being targeted for being GC - it seems to be part and parcel of being in politics these days, especially if you are female.

Yep, too much fear and favour

Almost like some sort of two-tier policing thing going on.

Weird huh?

This is my complaint to the BBC:

This article is about a Labour candidate feeling unsafe at public hustings as a result of well-documented abuse (including threats of physical violence) as a result of her views on sex and gender. This is the story - that she is not safe. The title should reflect that. As it stands, it tells the reader very little.

I suggest that you change the title to ‘Labour candidate Rosie Duffield “not safe” at hustings.’ This is the shocking truth that your audience needs to know.

(The current title is just “Labour candidate Rosie Duffield cancels hustings”. To be fair, the actual article is good.)

Can people quote Rosie’s tweet, tag their local Labour candidates & ask how they’re going to support her?

Rosie must take care of her safety first, and I expect the police to take this more seriously.

You can easily see the double standards between the way the law has treated KJK and CF whereas the cowards threatening female politicians and candidates are acting with complete impunity.

The Labour leadership are sadly and predictably a letdown. Again.

@OldCrone early on (before she came out as GC) she went on the enough is enough march to protest about antisemitism in the labour party -there was then most of a CLP meeting devoted to how problematic this was. But quite a lot of the people involved have now left labour

I’ve often wondered this too.

💐 for you, Rosie, if you’re here.