Baroness Warsi

[mrsdavidgandy]

to think Baroness Warsi is bonkers

YANBU

Bonkers.

YADDDDNBU!

I would add my reasons but I am hoping to get back to sleep which will not be helped by thinking about her!

Why do you think she is bonkers?

Bonkers makes her sounds just eccentric. Isn't she a crook as well?

Definitely bonkers. YANBU.

Bonkers makes her sound somehow harmless. She's truly scary if you ask me.

YANBU

A crook? More please.

Baroness Uddin is the expenses fiddling crook.

Wasn't she prosecuted for expenses? I think she had an empty flat that she claimed was her real home so she could claim her family home was a second residence.

But why this thread now?

don't understand

Has she done something else?

She's said that what's wrong with this country is that we're not be Christian enough.

Oops - apologies for random cut-and-shut grammar. I'm paraphrasing her, obvs, but it's still a bit a)annoying b) bonkers c) really really annoying.

YANBU. I couldn't believe she was for real when I saw her on Question Time for the first time. Like some horrible and disturbing dream.

My husband is a political scientist. He says he is Mrs Bonkers from Bonkers Street in Bonkerstown.

This little gem from her latest speech:
"Confidence in our own beliefs enables us to defend attacks on others"

WTF??

Sayeeda Warsi is a tough and interesting politician and the first Muslim woman with a Cabinet position. Not to be confused with the incompetent and dishonest Labour peer Baroness Uddin. Warsi dares to say quite controversial things. I rather like her.

Why all the hatred?

Why the hatred? She's a reactionary, right-wing bigot who thinks all poor people are poor because they just don't try hard enough.

What did she say? 'm not really understanding why everyone's saying she's bonkers.

I don't really like her attitude to homosexuality, but she offers a libertarian defence of the burqa and argues - as a Muslim - that Europe should be more confident about its Christian heritage. That doesn't sound like bigotry to me.

Has she said something mean about homosexuality?

She said that faith in this country was under attack from "militant secularists". She then went to see the pope on some kind of inter-faith mission and gave him an English translation of the Koran, which I'm sure he was thrilled with.

Of course if she'd thought about it a bit, she'd have realised that Muslims in this country have benefited from the increasing secularisation of this country. We don't, any more, give precedence to people who are Christians (specifically Protestant), except in a few isolated cases such as the bishops in the house of lords.

Animation - she came under fire for some of her campaign leaflets a long time ago, that mentioned changing the age of consent for same-sex relationships in a way that some construed as offensive. She later disowned the wording, and apologised.

What dies that mean to be more confident of it's Christian heritage? I think it's very confident of its heritage.

However there are many of us (the majority?) who are not religious and don't want any religion foisted on us.