David Tennant - Wishes Kemi B would ‘shut up’

She’s a senior politician. She chose to put her head above the parapet. Would you be boo-hooing if someone had said this to Michael Gove or Jeremy Hunt?

You can’t be putting yourself forward to be Prime Minister one minute and then crying you're a poor helpless oppressed little thing the next.

I find it interesting he picked on Kemi. Yes he's a big Labour guy but he along with everyone else knows the Conservatives are unlikely to be in government next week.

I think Kemi is just a convenient substitute for the woman he'd really like to have a pop at, the one who's made countless headlines in the last week and shown Labour up to be a bunch of misogynistic twerps. The fellow Scot who just won't wheesht for Labour and might actually damage their majority a wee bit and presumably a former friend.

Come on Dave, do you dare go there?

I don't understand what makes actors so bloody well qualified to comment.

Who are they really? just grown ups who make a living playing dress up.

If people stopped treating them like they were gods, maybe the ignorant little fuckers would stop behaving as if they are the fount of all knowledge, graciously bestowing it from on high on the poor little mortals who toil in the sun.

I find it interesting he picked on Kemi. Yes he's a big Labour guy but he along with everyone else knows the Conservatives are unlikely to be in government next week.

I think Kemi is just a convenient substitute for the woman he'd really like to have a pop at, the one who's made countless headlines in the last week and shown Labour up to be a bunch of misogynistic twerps. The fellow Scot who just won't wheesht for Labour and might actually damage their majority a wee bit and presumably a former friend.

Come on Dave, do you dare go there?

I think this is true.

However...

I also think that implying that Tennant, or guys like him, shouldn't disagree with her because she's black is hugely problematic, unless there is specific evidence.

He may be a twat, but he is allowed to agree with a member of the government on policy, and in a robust way, whatever her sex or race. He shouldn't need to pussyfoot around it with her any more than with someone like Nigel Farage.

I am all for calling out their CRT hypocrisy when appropriate, but I don't believe in ID politics so I am not going to use them as a tool to criticize others'actions.

I think this is true.

However...

I also think that implying that Tennant, or guys like him, shouldn't disagree with her because she's black is hugely problematic, unless there is specific evidence.

He may be a twat, but he is allowed to agree with a member of the government on policy, and in a robust way, whatever her sex or race. He shouldn't need to pussyfoot around it with her any more than with someone like Nigel Farage.

I am all for calling out their CRT hypocrisy when appropriate, but I don't believe in ID politics so I am not going to use them as a tool to criticize others'actions.

Yeah, doesn't wish ill on her, but wishes she didn't exist. It's about as coherent as the ideology he supports.

Wishing a black, female politician, standing up for women's rights, didn't exist, and parading your nine-year-old trans child around, is not an optic that is going to wear well, in my opinion.

Which ever way you look at it, it's not what I would call the right side of history.

I can't wait for JKR to comment.

What's the betting that when it comes to her, he's the one who'll shut up.

KB just chucked that back at him because it is his own world view and supposed values - she is a very capable and strong woman who knows what she's about.

Kemi really grinds the gears of many people to the extent that Labour is trying to encourage tactical voting in order to oust her from her relatively safe seat.
She's the woman who says what she thinks and says it convincingly - and people really don't like to hear an articulate and confident black woman airing views and positions they don't like. She's a major threat and they know it.

That was a long pause - after he said he wished she didn't exist anymore. I expect he realised that what he had said sounded terrible, so he added the next backtracking bit about not wishing ill of her.

I think this is true.

However...

I also think that implying that Tennant, or guys like him, shouldn't disagree with her because she's black is hugely problematic, unless there is specific evidence.

He may be a twat, but he is allowed to agree with a member of the government on policy, and in a robust way, whatever her sex or race. He shouldn't need to pussyfoot around it with her any more than with someone like Nigel Farage.

I am all for calling out their CRT hypocrisy when appropriate, but I don't believe in ID politics so I am not going to use them as a tool to criticize others'actions.

I find it interesting he picked on Kemi. Yes he's a big Labour guy but he along with everyone else knows the Conservatives are unlikely to be in government next week.

I think Kemi is just a convenient substitute for the woman he'd really like to have a pop at, the one who's made countless headlines in the last week and shown Labour up to be a bunch of misogynistic twerps. The fellow Scot who just won't wheesht for Labour and might actually damage their majority a wee bit and presumably a former friend.

Come on Dave, do you dare go there?