Adam Boulton summarises Ann Widdecombe as ‘a spinster, an old maid and a virgin’

Have no idea who Nicholas Lissack is, and no interest in finding out.

I think whoever this person is, must be about an issue you have.

If you think the BBC and C4 news are influenced by this non entity, please do feel free to contact them and let them know!

So back in the real world, police issue statement, Farage ignores it.

Mediocre men on the left resort to this so often. Kemi shows them up and they lash out and insult. It’s all they have.

This really annoyed me. So sexist. He’s on a radio station with good female presenters. I’ve emailed to say why keep him

So with a whole generation of young women now who say they actively dislike men he is going to pick AW?

Nothing enrages a certain type of man more than a woman who doesn’t need a man.

Whilst his comments are reprehensible, please think carefully about amplifying Nicholas Lissack’s signals. And also ask why he is doing this.

Feeling a bit uncertain in case I misheard so have checked my "facts".

From the BBC website:

The search for a suspect - who is believed to be a white male - continues, the police said earlier after confirming that a 26-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering Widdecombe has been released and is no longer part of its investigation.

I watched C4 news tonight, and the talked about first suspect having been released, but that still looking for a white male. (Unless I imagined that.)**

But they did also report that the police are asking people not to speculate, and then added that Farage turned up at her house, and gave a speech doing exactly that, speculating.

** If C4 didn't actually say that, apologies. This is what happens when I try to do two things at once.

Exactly.

Indeed. I have a vague memory of AW saying that as a) a devout Christian on the conservative end of the theological spectrum, and b) single, she would be appalled should anyone insinuate that she wasn't a virgin.

I think fundamentally we can all agree that she wouldn't give a shit what Adam Boulton thought about her.

Have they said it was a man, I thought they released the first person arrested?

Why does a woman ALWAYS have to be seen in context of a man????

I am a right winger but I did not agree with all her views. I liked and admired Anne as a character and a powerful independent woman.She was one in a million and the world is poorer for her passing.

RIP Anne.

Have now had time to read other's comments and am sorry to hear that on some other part of MN there are disrespectful comments.

Also had not realised AB had been "let go" by Sky. Well done them. And he has no right to say it is about baby boomers or whatever.

Its the sort of thing that that other arrogant male Jeremy Paxman might have said thinking it made him look edgy and clever, rather than a complete twat.

If anything sounds like some "bounder" in a 1930s film or something.

Dont men like this have families who can tell them just grow up. You aren't a silly schoolboy thinking being rude is the same as being clever.

So sorry for Anne Widdecombe's life to end like this, and for all the other women who have died from men's violence.

RIP

Thanks for starting this thread.

I hadn't been aware of this until I saw a post about it on facebook and was just astonished that in this day an age someone in the MSM could think it okay to talk like this. Not sure who his actual employer is but he should certainly be disciplined if not sacked.

Decades ago in the era of Women's Liberation there used to phrases like MCP (male chauvinist pig) and DWM (dead white male) meaning men who had grown up in the 40s and 50s "didn't know any better".

I haven't had time to read other comments, but probably like many I didn't agree with a lot of what Ann Widdecombe said but always admired her for her integrity. And ability to not allow bullies to silence her.

If anyone knows of any sort of petition re getting rid of that disgusting human being off our screens, please post links.

Although am tempted to add, which I wouldn't normally say out loud, but each time I have seen AB on screen he made me want to vomit.

Good god. It’s like the mask drops.

Not sure why this comes to mind, but I have had a couple of experiences in more traditional Mediterranean cultures where I will be treated very courteously when with my husband and DC but if I happen to go to the same places alone, then I will get very poor service or turned away. This is in hotels btw, where we are paying good money to stay there. Obviously I complain to management each time but it’s as if, without a man, the real view of you is revealed…

there was something on the radio recently (maybe in Woman’s Hour) about some women reclaiming the term as an honourable one which didn’t define them in relation to men.

What a nasty man. Spinster actually used to be a positive word, referring to a woman who had the skill to support herself independently from her spinning without needing marriage. Sadly typical that it's since shifted into something derogatory.

Anne was a very clever lady and a great orator. Adam Bolton doesn't have a quarter of her wit.

Bit of a dinosaur move. Aren't we over that kind of description of Anne Widdecombe? Why is her life entirely boiled down to her relationship to the male species?!

Politics and hard work was the love of her life and that has been far more interesting.

She was also undeniably someone who the public reacted positively to. And much admired. Certainly by me. I'm proud of women like her, she was never afraid to be who she wanted or say what she wanted.

I'm extremely saddened by the news, it's horrendous.

Well said. I'm fed up with hearing people repeatedly looking to blame / smaer AW for her thoughts, beliefs and lifestyle. I know it says far more about them than her, but it's fucking irritating and very typical of a mysoginistic streak that currently runs through our society

To steal someone else's words

"We shouldn’t be surprised that representatives of a cult like ideology built on envy, grievance and collective victimhood, with burning resentment on contrived injustices that breeds hatred of the people they think are responsible, can display such regular abhorrent inhumanity."

He isn"t though, he is a clown on a biased news station designed to push an agenda, just ignore him, unfortunately if we trawl through comments AW has made in her life about people there is also likely to be some nasty stuff? As other posters said she had relationships when at Uni etc. she just didn"t get married, so what?

"Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion"

RIP

Her "opinions" are all lifted from Nigel Farage and Reform though because that is where the political winds are blowing, like Boris she will jump on any train that furthers her career, we don"t really know what she really thinks, her delivery is excellent but it is like a good musician in a covers band, it isn"t really them.

I saw it on the 4pm - 5pm news hour yesterday, Friday 10 July, and I think that was the first time he was on because I'd been watching since the news of the murder investigation broke. It's a long time since I've shouted at the TV. He's vile. If he's what women can expect from a life with men, it's a wonder more of us aren't "old maids".