Jess Phillips MP harassed and threatened by angry men

I cannot imagine how that is allowed. I was shocked enough about Jess Phillips, but Shabana Mahmood needing armed police? I thought Hamas was a proscribed organisation?

I think it’s an inevitable consequence of identity politics, when groups can claim some sort of immunity from criticism/prosecution because of gender identity, religion etc. These men are so sure that levelling accusations of transphobia or Islamaphobia, or any phobia are so effective at shielding them that they don’t really fear consequences.

It can be any group who feels emboldened by being deemed exempt from the rules that govern the rest of society.

I am struggling towards the idea that a person who openly shows support for terrorism perhaps should be de-selected or even expelled from the Commons.

I had no idea. That's so shocking! "Infidel"?
She is allowed to have an opinion? Obviously not.

Too true: worse, even apologists for Oct 7th.
It's not rape if it's Jewish women, it seems!

I was horrified. I can't imagine them abusing a man like that. Some of them just can't stand a strong woman daring to stand for Parliament. These extremists need to be stopped, it's getting worse.
She was so shaken afterwards, I felt for her.

Because we're left in terror, there's maniacs among them.

"The reason they're filming is to drive content, to incite more intimidation," she said. "In my constituency, the humiliation was by men, to women.

"And they wish to drive content... that's what our politics has become - humiliation. Content-driven grift."

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/labours-jess-phillips-reflects-abuse-202700120.html

Thats extremely rude. I am not going to respond in kind. I am not an apologist for any misogynists - unlike many on here I'm looking forward to misogyny being made a hate crime.

My opinion is this issue has been caused by a combination of Internet driving tastes for conflict, and George Galloway stirring up trouble.

We need a better way to deal with extremists, across the board.

I think the problem here is that Oct 7th was mentioned as a source of greater Islamophobia, but the real increase in hatred has been towards Jews, and it is Jews who cannot walk along the street feeling safe, feels safe at work, be safe going to school, not Muslims. That was not addressed at all.
We now have some MPs who are openly in support of Hamas terrorists, too.

Exactly.

Agree, in that the intimidation is pretty new. Overall the election results are worrying in that they don’t demonstrate much enthusiasm for Labour and very little for the Conservatives. Instead fragmentation and oddballs.Then on MN people seem determined to prevent women having a constructive conversation.

I don’t want to get tin hat but the gender nonsense came from nowhere, complete with thread disrupters. Now this. Important to discuss, but obviously some people don’t want us to.

Not a Reform voter, but I noted they got rid of the men straightaway. Whats happening about this mob or the candidate who stood there smiling?
I mean realistically there are far more acts and threats of violence and intimidation and brutalisation of women coming from extremist islamists, here or globally, its impossible to miss.
My days of looking the other way at the abuse of women because of 'be kind' are over.
I dont care which group of men and their handmaidens are responsible, nor their religious or ideological justification.

Didn't Reform expel candidates who behaved badly? Although IIRC that didn't include shouting violent threats at women or intimidating them in public, slashing their tyres etc.

I have looked at this from every angle that I can think of. I have even read the hatchet job in byline times. I'm buggered if I can see how being a registered company rather than a political association is acting against the democratic process.

Maybe filing a return to Companies House is the same as deploying harassment and intimidation as deliberate tactics in your mind. I disagree.