Rupa Huq

[derxa]

www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/rupa-huq-jake-berry-keir-starmer-kwasi-kwarteng-labour-b1028459.html
Just when I'm starting to get on board with voting Labour, one of their MPs comes out with something like this.
Ms Huq was said to be sitting next to Labour chairwoman Anneliese Dodds when she made the remarks.
In the audio, Ms Huq could be heard saying: “Superficially he is a black man.
“He went to Eton, I think, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through, the top schools in the country.
“If you hear him on the Today programme, you wouldn’t know he is black.”

No, I think she was saying that the policies in his mini budget were not necessarily going to benefit black people living in Britain, even though he is a black man, because his experiences are very different to many black, british people. She was answering a question about this.

@derxa eek! But I need to look at the context first. Mindful the press is right-wing and therefore biased against her.

Going off topic a bit but I hadn’t heard of Rupa Huq before. Name sounded familiar though… just googled and yes she’s Konnie Huq’s sister!!

Konnie Huq was great on Blue Peter!

NHEHS provided bursaries, assisted places and scholarships. You didn't have to be rich to go there, just bright enough. Don't know if RH's family were rich but she was definitely very bright. Well her sister also went there.

What Huq said was not acceptable. The whip has been withdrawn.

All parties have twats in them (we all know about Fulbrook, Pincher etc.), what matters is how the leadership deal with it.

They're very different people I think. Rupa always comes across as very bitter.
Anyway the thread came about because I was watching Politics Live to watch Keir's speech. And as someone pointed out I'm a swing voter. There's no point in alienating me!

Regardless of whether she benefitted from bursaries or not, she then went on to Cambridge and it means her 'lived experience' was far more priviliged than most of her BAME peers, same as KK. People in glass houses......
And if you're black or asian, that is actually what you are. It's about skin colour rather than upbringing/environment. Or are we all going to start 'identifying' about this as well.....

We've clashed before over politics but on this 100% agree, Labour need to bring their A game, things like this, even taken out of context are unbelievably stupid.

Good she is suspended, i think she'll lose her front bench job too.

Labour would fit for you, decent farming policy, unionist and wont try to rejoin EU, also ruled out any post GE deal with SNP.

It’s the same as Joe Biden’s comments “if you don’t vote democrat you ain’t black”.

it’s incredible how much racism there is on the left.

That's because the Tory party would be defending it, making jokes about it during PMQs, doing interviews where the insist people need to get over it/move on, and trying to deflect from it by waffling a load of shite about world-beating vaccines/oven-ready Brexit/levelling up.

Really shitty comments, but I’m guessing there are shitty comments being made in all of the mainstream parties from time to time - if not daily.

Shes been suspended immediately which is more than the Tories would do if she were an actual criminal. So won’t stop me voting for Labour.

Labour would fit for you, decent farming policy, unionist and wont try to rejoin EU, also ruled out any post GE deal with SNP. Well I'm not against rejoining the EU but it'll never happen. I almost stood up and cheered when he said no deal with the SNP. He'll have to stick to that.

Actually very little, what Huq said is nothing compared to what Johnson said about Muslims and Blacks... but thats all ok with you,

its incredible the amount of racism on the Right.

Racism is Racism, it doesn't recognise left or right, its stupid to play politics with it, thats how it gets in... its wrong in every case.

I follow a lot of conservative journos on twitter. You can practically smell their disappointment at how decisively Starmer's dealt with this.

I’m a swing voter too.

Really impressed by Starmer’s publicly owned green energy company plan.

It seemed fresh and new - as well as environmentally responsible.

She was incredibly bright, top sets for everything in an academically competitive school. I am not surprised she went to Cambridge. I remember her as a lovely girl, always kind and funny, never a bully, with a variety of friends from very different backgrounds. I think she said a silly thing, maybe she has changed

Labour have an issue with Racism . The nasty party

Labour want the black people poor and uneducated. Good luck with them if they get elected. They think they own the minorities. Remember what Emma Dent C said about Shaun Bailey.

She MP in the next constituency to me. Shall I tell my DC that they can’t be Muslims with a refugee father because they are privately educated. Are ethnic minorities only allowed to be economically disadvantaged.

West London is very diverse with lots of aspirational people from many cultures. Did she really intend to suggest that you lose your cultural identity if you don’t conform to stereotypes.

I bet that applies to one or two posters here too.

It was very cynical the way that the right wing guido Fawkes site released this recording just before Kier's speech.

He stamped on it immediately he finished his speech though.

We're used to it. Pisses me off every time though.

agree Keir should publicly censure this.

Agree. Absolutely disgusting.

Party has removed the whip, pending formal investigation, and said it is unacceptable, and asked for apology.

I think the way anti-semitism was dealt with bodes well for this - quite quick and quite brutal.

I agree with her. Also BAME is an awful lazy acronym.

The issue is the inherent racism in the party, not how quickly Starmer deals with it.