Jess Phillips

[uneffingbelievable]

What a brave lady.

Whilst I am not an ardent Labour supporter, I completely support you and how you have stood up to the bullying, racism, violence and hatred sent your way.

Sad that your family could not be there to see your victory but under the circumstances you made the right choice.

That this country is allowing this type of intimidation and behaviour - we should be ashamed of ourselves.

Yep. Let’s place all white men under curfew.

Then you misunderstand politics & the Labour Party!

You see this is the sort of nonsense thst made that campaign toxic. You can't demand MPs support your interpretation of how to deal with a particular problem at a particular time & then go and harass them if they don't do exactly what you want. Representative democracy doesn't work like that. Calling for a ceasefire in a country you have no control over,from opposition, is a pretty impotent, virtue signalling gesture and conflicts like this dont get solved in that way. She didnt say no to a ceasefire - that is a deliberate mischaracterisation.You need to accept that there may be other approaches to solving problems. Lets see what difference these pro Gaza MPs actually make to the situation on the ground in Israel Gaza shall we?

I don't understand this position. I am working class, I also didn't go to Cambridge, sleekly groomed had never been used to describe my, but I've been successful and so have some of my childhood friends, we all stand up for ourselves. It doesn't mean none of us are unlikeable, or we are above criticism.

@Kolbie

I noticed you didn't answer any of my posts.

It is not Jess Phillips' job to 'save' the people of Gaza or anywhere else in the world! It is Jess Phillips job to represent the people in her area. Thats it.

Gaza is important to you, clearly, but there are other areas in the world where people are being killed - Sudan for example. So other people in your area may have different priorities, which are important to them.

We can not get embroiled in every atrocity around the world.

You are completely misunderstanding the role and function of an MP. She is there to serve local needs to local people. It is not her job to stand on a soap box and lecture world governments about their own defence policies for goodness sake.

You have stop screaming genocide and start to really consider how you can make a difference. Volunteering, sending aid and being part of the solution. Encouraging solution based thinking rather than more and more violence.

All you are doing is pouring petrol on the flames.

You are breaking the law if you are inciting hatred and abuse, it is not okay to threaten anyone, anywhere.

I hope the police and courts really start to clamp down on this now.

And the women and girls in Israel? Who seemingly can't go to a concert without being slaughtered or kidnapped?

Agree with every word. I wonder how the single issue Gaza candidates will serve their constituents. Their job is now to represent all their constituents, yet we already know what they think of those that don't agree with them. Its concerning for democracy here & wont make a blind bit of difference there.

Britain has always been a misogynist country-misogyny hasn’t been imported. Perhaps some people who have come to the country have also been, individually and culturally, misogynists but it was here before they arrived.
And it isn’t only men. There is a current thread about Angela Rayner on Mnet full of misogynistic attitudes and remarks by women about her. It exposes these Mnetters as snobs, misogynist and, no doubt, Tories or Reform voters.

It's that 2 tier policing in action. Mention it and you're quickly accused of racism. While people keep burying their heads reform will flourish.

It's the left that has allowed this - and I come from the metropolitan left. If you point out what these men stand for - men's rights and anti-homosexuality, anti-Jewish along with religious dominance - you're immediately called islamophobic. If you point out that trans activism is problematic in terms of women's and gay rights, you're immediately called transphobic. If you point out that mass immigration is changing society in ways that are not entirely beneficial, then you're called racist and a xenophobe. The aim is to silence anyone who speaks out.

But that will only hold for so long. The left has learned NOTHING from Brexit. Will it learn anything from the massive shift to the right across Europe? People in France, for instance, are not keen on seeing teachers beheaded on their streets, and they see the failure of their politicians to tackle the issues that led to it. If left leaning governments carry on ignoring the silenced majority, the far right is exactly what you will get.

They'll be sorry when they hear these men's views on Trans as well.

I wonder how the single issue Gaza candidates will serve their constituents. Their job is now to represent all their constituents, yet we already know what they think of those that don't agree with them.

The theory is they will be so pisspoor that they won't be re elected.

The practice may well be that the constituency becomes like any other one hidebound by rosette voting, and people just return the same old same old. On fact given that's what happens in almost every other constituency in the UK, it would be positively weird if it didn't.

Of course if you are an excluded constituent whose vote is effectively ignored or wasted then you might lose faith in democracy.

At this point there is a convergence of issues with PR, and electoral representation in general.

https://themuslimvote.co.uk/about-us/

And this is why every vote matters to all in the UK. Is this website even legal?

Why would it not be ?

You put your post code in and a tool tells you which candidate to vote for. I thought religious organisations had strict rules against promoting candidates. Do impartiality rules no longer apply?

I agree with you. I’m Jewish and it scares me to the core. I’m much more worried about the obsession with Palestine from the far-left and radical Muslims than Reform (which is ridiculous as they’re basically the National Front).
In France, Jews are voting for the far right as they’re more scared of the far/left than Le Pen. How fucked is that?
I hope everyone in here who is a supporter of the Pally flag really understands the history of the Midfle East / even Palestinians are now sick of Hamas - there was a good bbc article about this online the other day.

This makes my blood run cold. It will have the opposite effect. It might silence people who move in metropolitan circles, but it will enrage those living at the sharp end of mass immigration. It will almost guarantee a huge swing to the right-wing populist parties.

Not everyone can hear your dog whistle antisemitism. But some of us can, and it’s deplorable that you use your racial hatred to justify violence against women in politics. We’ve all seen where that kind of rhetoric ends.

Which bits are dog whistle antisemitism?

Gosh, I think having to explain that would rather defeat the point I was making!

Angela Rayner was interviewed on the ITV election night programme. She was outside and it started raining. She asked for second to get an umbrella. Next day big headline “Rayner stops programme to get umbrella”. Ridiculous.

There is nothing antisemitic in that post. Absolutely nothing.

I think your mask has slipped. Its grossly offensive to equate the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, not least because Hamas started the latest round of conflict by attacking Jewish civilians & taking them hostage. You may disagree with the Israeli response but to equate it to the Holocaust is so inaccurate that we can only assume an ulterior motive in distorting the facts to this degree.

As is your absolute right.