Emily Thornberry

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Just saw an interview with this woman and how irritating is she? I thought Diane Abbot was bad but she is dreadful!

I'm not a prude but you can't have politicians swearing at each other on morning TV.

Oh FFS, you know what I mean, she's (well could be) in a responsible position.

What about the IRA? Maybe Corbyn should be held account for some things too? But then such charmers as those who run over people and don;t bother to stop, are perhaps exempt from behaving decently...

What about Assad?

That would be Emily White Van Thornberry?

Yep. That's the Lady.

Which her white van incident was even worse and sneering if you consider that she is titled.

No I don't think I do know what you mean. Are you in the habit of using words like "unstable"? I'd be very interested in your clarification.

I'm sorry, maybe I was rude, I'm just sad atm about eh state of affairs with the labour party and think this just gave me the rage. I maybe shouldn;t have said 'unstable' but she did come across that way. Think it was the swearing. Not very restrained. it just doesn't help.

Sad Eyed Pete but what would Dawn Doctor do?

She seems quite unstable to me.

You seem like a numpty to me.

She is Lady Nugee and proper posh, criticizing her is classist.

She made me cringe, and feel sick watching her!

Let me change that to 'hysterical numpty'.

She comes across as an ignorant snob, but at least she's Labour, eh

She is pompous though. On QT last week she was doing that pulling faces and rolling eyes rude thing whenever someone was speaking she didn't agree with (which was most of the time)

Came across as unprofessional imo

I've really warmed to her- unlike other MPs she has recognised that attention needs to be firmly fixed on the Tories and not internal squabbling and she was great against Fallon this morning.
As for white van man gate or whatever, can someone tell me what is so great and uniquely English working class about a white man who drives a white van, likely reads the Sun and drapes the house in St George flags? Is that seriously representative of the great British working class? I hardly think so.

Prince Harry is Hewitt born. Debbie Harry is an embarrassment to the Labour Party and I think people like her will cause a higher number of Tory voters unfortunately

WTF?

I thought Diane Abbot was bad but she is dreadful!
Yes she is bad, but no-one could ever be worse than Abbot.

As for white van man gate or whatever, can someone tell me what is so great and uniquely English working class about a white man who drives a white van, likely reads the Sun and drapes the house in St George flags? Is that seriously representative of the great British working class? I hardly think so.

Maybe not. It was her sneering of it, which as someone of title, she should have known it wouldn't go down well.

Actually, thinking back probably delusional might be a better term than unstable.

It seems quite a few of the labour part are quite delusional atm.

That old chestnut again.

Anything to debase the Labour party.

I'd give anything to get back the Labour party to being a party...to be honest..

I'd give anything to get back the Labour party to being a party...to be honest

Me too. It will have to hit rock bottom before it does, unfortunately.

springheeled You are so right. I hate that the right wing are defining what the so called 'working class' want and think. I do think she made a fair point in that tweet. The St. George's Cross has come to be synonymous with English nationalism. And English Nationalism with racism and bigotry.

I find it frustrating that there can't be a conversation around the connotations of the English flag without right wing commentators screaming about the working classes. The flag belongs to everyone and there isn't just one way of being working class. If you want to define people that way then it's about socio-economic background and not a catch all for political leanings.

can someone tell me what is so great and uniquely English working class about a white man who drives a white van, likely reads the Sun and drapes the house in St George flags?

And this is precisely why there is such a political split in this country and why Labour, with the likes of Thornberry, will lose the election.

You have no evidence whatsoever that the family that lived in that Thornberry tweet house were white or English. You have no evidence that they read The Sun newspaper.

You have no grounds on which to base your very obviously class-based sneer.

All you reveal in your comment is a prejudice that, were it applied to another ethic community, would be socially unacceptable for the appalling perspective it entails.

Ok Assad is beyond awful, however at the time he was/is a legitimately elected leader of a world country (power crazed and abhorrent since in power yes).
The IRA were terrorists. Not only did JC meet with them. He was arrested on a picket line that was in sympathy with the IRA bombers after the Brighton bombing. That's pretty inexcusable.

Also, if was very interesting seeing a clip of JC only from 2011 where he said that NATO was a force for evil and should be stopped (maybe not exact words but pretty much).

Then she said in defence of him that JC was on 'A journey'.

Except @quietcorday that presumably the poster saw the sun article at the time. I certainly did www.thesun.co.uk/archives/politics/533564/white-van-man-ed-mp-should-say-sorry/
And as for Corbyn and ira that's how the Assad thing started no?

I cannot hear her name without thinking of The Really Wild Thornberrys!