Lawrence Fox

[Chicchicchicchiclana]

He's just a terrible old wanker with extreme right wing views is he?

I don't know very much about him apart from he comes from the famous Fox family, he was married to Billie Piper, he was in the TV series Lewis alongside Kevin Whately, and he made a racist arse of himself on Question Time last year.

So what's he up to now? Has he gone even more off the rails?

[QuiQuaiQuod]

I am glad that someone is prepared to offer an alternative view and challenge the cancel culture. It’s a breath of fresh air. I’m watching with interest.

And we all know what mumsnets turned into.

Lefty.

[QuiQuaiQuod]

but its okay to be far left is it?

Not that I'm a fan of his, but anything NOT left view is immediately wrong!

[longwayoff]

Dunno. Maybe ask Baroness Fox, she's tried both sides and now you're supporting her. Do admire someone of firm conviction. Have a nice day.

[DizzyPigeon]

I am glad that someone is prepared to offer an alternative view and challenge the cancel culture

When it comes to cancel culture, he's a fucking hypocrite. Look at what he did with Rebecca Front. Making their private conversation public is exactly the kind of shit that cancel culture is all about.

So yeah, please be against cancel culture. I hate it. But don't use Lawrence Fox as your poster boy.

[PotholeParadies]

Agreed, Dizzy. Laurence's objections to 'cancel culture' are entirely personal. He believes that he should have a platform, whatever he says on whatever subject, in everyone's twitter feed. He found out that Rebecca Front had blocked him so she couldn't see his posts, and he tried to get her cancelled for that. What kind of entitlement must he have to think that no-one is allowed to block him from their personal twitter?

Right now, self-declared enemy of cancel culture Fox is trying to cancel Sainsbury's and Argos.

[nibdedibble]

@PerkingFaintly Aren’t they? There is absolutely no way he’s just an idiot that someone idiotic has decided to lend cash to. This is an opportunity to use an idiot to further a culture war.

As ever, we the public on social media are the ones being played...those of you who think he’s refreshing or whatever are being particularly targeted.

[PerkingFaintly]

BTW, I actually disagreed with the OP when I first read it, viz:
He's just a terrible old wanker with extreme right wing views is he?

I thought, "Nah, surely he's just another tedious man upset at finding the housework doesn't do itself after his divorce, and retreating into 1950s fantasies. Yer traditional male chauvinist pig. Ten a penny on a park bench."

But now I've read more about him, I'm beginning to think the OP was rather closer to the mark.

[IntermittentParps]

the tricky thing is that his 'alternative view' is demonstrably racist and misogynistic.

but its okay to be far left is it?
I don't think anyone on here is actually a Stalinist. I could be wrong.

[Saucery]

I’m more Centre/Right leaning, but I still think he should sit down and shut the fuck up while other people are talking about their experiences not as a privileged white male.

[nibdedibble]

I’ve been quite ‘left’ all my life but I’ve no idea what’s going on any more I certainly don’t see a party or ‘thinker’ I can align myself with, quite the opposite really.

[QuiQuaiQuod]

I think he talked a lot of sense and got attacked and completely ragged for it and probably lost his career. He's a victim of the shameful Cancel Culture we've allowed to go on for so long and I hope he manages to make a come back.

He’s upsetting the Wokerati so he’s got my vote.

This ^^


And btw I'm mixed race and think that woman on QT was racist. white privelaged male is a racist thing to say.

[derxa]

Laurence seems unhappy to me. I hope regains his equilibrium

[DizzyPigeon]

white privelaged male is a racist thing to say

Oh bloody hell. I've heard it all now. 😂

[chomalungma]

And btw I'm mixed race and think that woman on QT was racist. white privelaged male is a racist thing to say

Can you explain why you think that?

[chomalungma]

I mean - if a man said that the UK was a great place for woman and an there was equality between the sexes, and it was suggested that because he was male, he might not understand sexism against women as a woman would - would that be a sexist thing to say?

[LaLaLoopsieLoo]

White privilege is racist, it’s a way to shut someone down because of the colour of their skin.

[chomalungma]

@LaLaLoopsieLoo

White privilege is racist, it’s a way to shut someone down because of the colour of their skin.

And what about male privilege.

Is that a way to shut someone down because of their sex?

[Headspinner2020]

I like him

[LaLaLoopsieLoo]

How many women have walked away from prison when a man would of had the book thrown at him?

[Gilead]

How many women have walked away from prison when a man would of had the book thrown at him?
How many men have walked away?

[BubblegumFactory]

He’s a dick.
On Twitter he appears to have amassed a large following of gammon brexit types who like him because he ‘tells it like it is’ or some bollocks.
He is a dull narcissist like many before him who only manage to see the world from their own narrow and simplistic perspective.
Everyone else on Twitter sees him for the prick he is.
I find it sad that posters here on MN are impressed by him and his ludicrous ambition of a political career.
Aim higher people. His bar is way too low.

[user1471565182]

Which bit about his abusive behaviour towards women do you like best, Headspinner? or are you all still pretending not to see that bit still?

[user1471565182]

No, qui, it was always a good mix of political opinions but ultimately decent people, until the Daily Mail starting reporting on mumsnetters views of Megan Markle, then people like you shot in as an excuse to do the 'I spend my days devoted to hating her and dianne abbott but its nothing to do with racism because I dont say ni**er' bit and disingenous 'I just want free speech' nonsense whilst whining that the place isnt Right wing enough for you like 95% of the billionaire owned media in this country at the same time.

[user1471565182]

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-get-tougher-sentences-than-men-cjpdx65q7

'Women sentenced for crimes more harshly than men'

[PurpleFlower1983]

I can’t believe what a twat he has turned out to be! I think he wants to be the new Katie Hopkins!