to let you know what Tulip Siddiq MP said to a pregnant journalist? *title was edited by MNHQ*

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She is the granddaughter of first President of Bangladesh, and niece of current PM, and refused to answer questions about human rights in Bangladesh saying you need to 'be very careful' about questioning me, before saying to the producer "Thanks for coming Daisy, hope you have a great birth, because child labour is hard! See you!"

twitter.com/Hayley_Barlow/status/935600828592816128

I saw that, her words weren't specifically nasty (in isolation) but you could feel the venom drip from the words.

There are a few links on Twitter.

I think it's a little bit of a leap to infer that Siddiq said she hoped the journalist/ her bay would die from that exchange.

*baby

Definitely unpleasant.
Definitely a reach suggesting she said she hoped the journalist would die in childbirth

Sorry I don't understand the connection to stillbirth in what she said?

Here's the exchange:

I watched the segment and she and her bag carrier came across extremely badly. But I don't think she was saying she hoped the journalist and her baby died. I do think she was saying 'hope you have a miserable labour'.

Either way, she sounds most shady and she'll be regretting this exchange.

I’m no fan of Siddiq but she didn’t suggest that at all.

Apparently she has complained the police.

twitter.com/bendepear/status/935611855707541504

Absolutely mental.

I've ran it through Google Translate several times and not once did "thanks for coming Daisy, hope you have a great birth, because child labour is hard! See you" translate to "I hope you and your baby die".

Em, I think you are hearing something that wasn't there

She didn't suggest that at all!

Misleading title but tbh I was shocked by this new low in MP behaviour. And I'm quite cynical really.

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How on earth have you managed to misconstrue that? She's hoping the journalist has a painful labour by the sound of it, but nowhere did she wish that the mother or child die.

How is it misconstruing? She said child labour is hard, not that it's painful.

Die in childbirth? Where?!

That is a ridiculous - and possibly libellous - leap

How is it misconstruing? She said child labour is hard, not that it's painful.

Exactly that, she said it was hard. Hard ≠ "I hope you and your baby die" ffs.

I think she comes across as a nasty slopey-shouldered piece of work but it's a massive leap to read her comments as threatening let alone inferring she wished the journalist's baby would come to harm 😏

Tbh it was such a freakishly weird thing to say. But the run up was quite a performance too.

YAB ridiculous in your assertation but her comment was very unpleasant.

Yes labour is hard. Because it's painful.

I mean, I strongly dislike the woman and she obviously comes off terribly, but I have no idea how anyone could get 'I hope you and your baby die' from that exchange. She was just being petty and bitchy about how unpleasant giving birth is.

You focused on the wrong bit - I don't understand why - but I agree with you that her attitude is shocking and needs addressing

Last year Siddiq was complaining (rightly) about women MPs getting abuse. www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/18/vile-online-abuse-against-women-mps-needs-to-be-challenged-now

Now she is targeting a woman (Channel 4 have described it as 'apparently threatening') simply because she is pregnant.