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!"

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helping a kidnapped lawyer is not corruption, don't be ridiculous

What? Because the PM is her aunt.

And? I’d be extremely pissed off if I was expected to sort out everything wrong a member of my family was doing. She is a London MP, not a member of parliament, voted in to interfere with issues in Bangladesh.

That’s why we have a foreign secretary, it is his job to deal with issues like this.

To help a disappeared lawyer and speak out on his behalf in her role as a UK politician would obviously not be corrupt. To condemn human rights abuses in her role as a UK politician would not be either. To expect to use a family connection for influence would be.

She has now apparently been told to has apologised unreaservingly to the producer.

Why did she go the her Aunt's meeting with Putin if she's not supposed to be influential in Bangladeshi politics?

She can't have it both ways.

Whichever way you look at it the video is a disaster.

She has to resign.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/29/channel-4-news-complains-to-labour-over-tulip-siddiqs-threat

"In comments reported in the Bangladeshi publication bdnews24, Siddiq told an event in Dhaka in 2015 that she believed a politician could serve people from anywhere in the world. “You don’t have to be in Bangladesh or England,” she said. “I try to help Bangladeshis in England in whatever way it is possible.”

From that Guardian link ^^

She'd have been far better off suggesting that the journalist go through the correct channels ie the foreign secretary. She'd probably have got lambasted for that too as everyone knows he's an incompetent idiot.

You can't expect her to wade in on the politics of another country and if she has done so previously, then as a British politician she needs to stop.

Why isn't Donald Trump's niece getting a load of shit about him? Or Theresa May's niece? Because they have fuck all to do with anything

Why was she so offended at being called Bangladeshi? That was a bit weird.

I think she just lost the plot. I don't think anything much was meant by the pregnancy comment.

The meeting she was present at with her Aunt and Putin was in 2013 - before she was an MP.

I don’t think she handled herself at all well in the interview but I do think its wrong to hold MPs responsible for events in their country of origin, she may be related to Bangladeshi PM but she isn’t in charge of foreign policy (and her saying she’s committed to helping Bangladeshi communities IN ENGLAND as quoted above is different again).

OP she is a 'Labour' MP. Anything goes. Imagine this being a Tory MP, we would have had marches, protests, chants for resignations... Labour is actually the nasty party in this day and age.

" I do think its wrong to hold MPs responsible for events in their country of origin,"

She wasn't.

She was asked if she could contact her own aunt, with whom who she has appeared in public at major international political events with the most powerful man in the world.

She responded by sneering at someone who has been kidnapped and probably murdered by people connected to her family, in the sort of manner of a Britain First supporter sneering at a migrant wanting to claim benefits.

She didn't merely politely say 'No I can't do that', she made out that to even ask was a horrific aggression.

Does Teresa May's niece accompany her to official meetings with foreign heads of state, Lion?

Tulip shouldn't. That's her mistake.

I agree Lion - that has been her mistake. But I think that it has stopped since she became an MP...? I might be wrong but that’s my understanding... I don’t think she sneered at the lawyer. I think she was wrong footed and handled it badly.

She comes across extremely badly regardless of what the comment meant. Horrible, grubby little caustic person.

She's awful. But that's her background. It must stick in the craw to come from wealth and power in one country to slumming it in Kilburn being expected to talk to the little people about their bins and street lamps.

Why was she so offended at being called Bangladeshi? That was a bit weird.
Because she wasn't called Bangladeshi, but pretended that she was in order to be outraged and deflect the subject by making it look like the other person was the bad guy. It is very much playing the race card.

She is not being asked to do anything she has not campaigned on, but yes, she is being asked to ask her very influential family member whom she has accompanied and appeared with, on high profile international political visits, to do something they clearly don't want to do.

I wonder if she is saving it up with her eye on Boris' job come the revolution.

oops, should have googled! I knew the seat had been massively marginal but forgot about the changes, despite being glued to the Ham&High and Camden New Journal every week!

I'm reading now in the local Ham and High online that she has complained to the police with an allegation of common assault and mentions how she felt intimidated by the "6 foot" journalist.

Now she's casting herself as a height differential victim. I'm beginning to think she has no shame. I feel really quite sorry for the journalist which is unusual for me.

She comes across appallingly there.

Why on earth did she not say, "it would not be appropriate for me to comment on a case I know nothing about just because the PM is my aunt, goodbye?"

Sure lots of people would still disagree but at least she would have been upfront. As it is she veers all over the place and makes no sense at all!

looking at the journo's twitter, harassment and military activity around the victim's family has increased not only since the piece aired but since it happened. This is being played as suspicious. idk if it is or not.

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OP she is a 'Labour' MP. Anything goes. Imagine this being a Tory MP, we would have had marches, protests, chants for resignations.

@bluebells1 a Tory MP - our Foreign Secretary - made comments (inaccurate comments, which he was very tardy in correcting) that may well land a British woman 5 years imprisonment in Iran. And yet he is still in post. Michael Give, another Tory MP, prevaricated on whether those inaccurate comments were inaccurate, thus putting this women's future in even more danger.

Stupid remarks aren't the province of any one party.

It was not "stupid" or careless remarks that are at issue with Tulip Siddiq though.

"Now she's casting herself as a height differential victim. I'm beginning to think she has no shame."

Yes she is a professional short person, apparently. Her Twitter bio is "Labour MP for my home seat of Hampstead and Kilburn. Small but fiery. "