David Tennant - Wishes Kemi B would ‘shut up’

Streeting encouraged so much of this shit in the first place by not listening.
Now he's giving Corporal Jones a run for his money with his don't panic Captain Mainwaring.

Actually fife was the last home of the picts, it's called the kingdom of fife for a reason

Dawn Butler is a fully paid up member of the gender faith. It's entirely predictable that she's happy to endorse telling another politician to shut up.

Meanwhile, Streeting is in the Telegraph, telling everyone that Labour has turned a corner and can do a better job of listening to women 😁

Trying to get everyone to row back with him after he encouraged all of this shit would be comical if it weren't so desperately important.

david tennent’s reaction is why people of colour are leaving lgbt+ / pride / stonewall in droves. It’s no longer a place where we feel safe.

This.

The biggest problem in all of this that society faces right now, is an increasing belief that if you don't like or agree with someone, you are entitled to declare them subhuman and they can be treated how you like.

Breaking society down into the 'powerful ones like me who get rights because they think like I do' and 'those scum who don't matter and aren't one of us' is the basic attitude behind things like colonialism, slavery and most of the atrocities of the past centuries that the left soooo love to bore the living hell out of people about, while identifying as caring about such things.

Not that the right are much better, but the left have this really embedded now and it's deeply ugly. It should never be excused and reinforced as 'well I don't care that he said a black woman should not exist (die) for protecting women's rights and child safeguarding in ways that annoy me, cos she's not someone I like or care about'.

So a man can go in front of an audience, and be broadcast across the globe calling for people to take action to get a woman to 'not exist anymore' and that's fine.

But some women saying 'thats actually not a good thing' are hyenas?

Indeed.

For a man whose job it is to spout stuff…he left himself just enough pace to draw breath - so that the audience may respond - & then realised that the crowd were not going his way.

On paper, it reads that he spoke those words as one sentence. On the podium, he had to adjust in mid-sentence his message & tone very quickly.

DT has done himself no favours, he has revealed too much.
Not longer the actor, we have seen the man & are no longer bound by the spell.

@CorruptedCauldron hear hear.

I loathe the Tories. But on this issue, Kemi is spot on.

Re the ‘hyenas’ comment - many people on here think Tennant was out of order and we’re simply calling it out. That doesn’t mean we are all right-wing, and it doesn’t mean that we all love everything Kemi Badenoch ever says. On women’s sex-based rights however, I believe she’s spot on. That is my opinion, which I’m entitled to have. I will listen to anyone who is talking sense on women’s rights and child safeguarding, I won’t cover my ears and say lalala you’re from the nasty party, I can’t hear you.

Meanwhile, here’s an interesting article in Spiked, not sure it’s been posted yet:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/25/david-tennants-rant-about-kemi-badenoch-was-deeply-revealing/

Dawn was foolish, she has just given a free pass to any knuckle dragging racist to say the same thing about her.

I've seen him at RSC and have the production postcards framed and waiting to go on the wall when I next redecorate. They aren't going up now.

He could have said any of the following:

• "However until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch isn't in government any more"
• "However until we wake up in that world"

But he chose to say that he doesn't want her to exist, saw how that went down, and hastily backtracked.

And again for those at the back not paying attention:-

A very privileged, rich man stood up on a public platform to accept an award; during his acceptance speech he expressed a wish that a female MP should not exist and wanted her to shut up.

This female MP may have views that many of us on here disagree with (I know I do), but in light of all the threats that female MPs experience as part of public life (and the fact that a female MP was murdered during a previous election campaign), this was a very unwise, stupid thing to do.

I feel chilled by this, I feel that he is no different to the Andrew Tates and Nigel Farages of this world; it is deeply embedded misogyny of the highest order and because he is who he is, this man will not be held to account.

So I and many others have come onto Mumsnet to express our dismay, our fear and our disgust at this behaviour. This is not about political affiliations. This is about calling out misogyny, regardless of who is doing it.

“I wish politicians like Kemi Badenoch (and maybe insert more) would stop using the trans community to score political points” or “would be less inflammatory with their language” or “could try and have more understanding of queer people”. Any of those would have made his point without wishing someone didn’t exist and would just shut up.

Obviously I’d still reserve the right to consider him an acting dullard and not even in the top 2 Dr Whos.

I wish we would stop sexualising children & allow them to have a childhood rather than having adults trends pushed onto them by their attention seeking parents.

The woman can't put a step wrong.

Don't be ridiculous, of course she can.

It's just not acceptable to single out a woman and state you want her to 'not exist anymore' (whilst bleating on about how kind you are) because you disagree with her politics and opinions.

It's possible to disagree with or even not like Kemi whilst also acknowledging that Tennant targeting her like that is shitty.

Loving the comments on the article though. Looks like most people see past his (admittedly lovely) fancy jacket.

me too. I'm a bit gutted tbh

We all think for ourselves, that's why there are many here calling out abusive behaviour and exploitation of children, and articulating why we think it is so.

You need to try and engage your own brain. Given your brief and sneery contribution that may well be a struggle for you.

I didn't like it when she whipped up a Twitter storm against a young journalist who had emailed a question to her press office.

I didn't either. You don't have to like someone to grasp that it's wrong to state publicly that they should shut up and/or stop existing.

And also highly partisan, don't forget that. He was preaching to the converted.

Yes,@mrstrickland, I have on occasions told people to shut up, usually my kids when they were being bloody irritating.

They were younger people I had authority over, not government ministers in my own age group.

And I wasn't all dressed up, accepting an award at a public event with the press watching, either.

Tennant is a fool.

Yes I’d genuinely like to know what posters mean about Kemi Badenoch being incompetent and loathed - leaving her GC views to one side, what are these other issues?

That may be the case.
But Tennant is still wishing a woman not to exist (ie to die)
That's bleaker.

I didn't like it when she whipped up a Twitter storm against a young journalist who had emailed a question to her press office.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/29/minister-kemi-badenoch-under-fire-over-tweets-about-journalist-who-sent-her-questions

I agree with her about the Equality Act.

People contain multitudes.