Gorton and Denton, what have you done?

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You have elected as an MP to stand in the UK&NI parliament a person who said in a panel interview with Annabel Tiffin from BBC Northwest Tonight that the Manchester Arena bombing was caused by people sewing division by questioning immigration.

That statement is so outrageous I don't even know where to start.

They mean there's too many brown people in GB.

Absolutely. Tired of the right using this as a political football.

I wonder what the arena bombers victims family thought when she came out with that little pearl?
I dont like her one bit. She comes across like an enthusiastic school girl who just scored at hockey rather than a serious politician.
Someone wake me up when its all over 😴

Stop baiting there is more to that statement than racism

I'll bet you are.

It was an utterly crass remark, which she handed to the right on a plate.

In 1983/84, Britain:

Had infant mortality rate of 10 per 1,000 live births vs 70-80 globally.

Homicide rate of 1 per 100,000 vs 10 global average.

Was one of about 30 liberal democracies, of 160 countries, and with women’s legal rights far ahead of most countries (and a female head of state and PM).

GDP per capita three times the global average.

It’s a pretty cosseted view to think these things aren’t great by the standards of almost anywhere else at almost any other time.

The world has got a lot better for almost everyone extremely rapidly, mainly becuase of medicine, trade, industry, technology, the enlightenment and the international liberal order. The UK has played a hugely outsized role in each of those.

It’s pretty misanthropic to not celebrate these things and historically illiterate to ignore the role of the country where we happen to have been born in that story.

Not sure if it was in the DM but it was absolutely true. Look it up. More recently ZP congratulated the lowlifes that got away with aggravated burglary and broke a policewoman spine. I don't know how anyone could vote for this party with such a leader.

It’s a protest vote. Once people realise how batshit the current Green Party is they won’t vote for them in a general election. The media will be scalp-hunting them too now

You think?

That sound very aligned with Green Party values.

It was a BBC Northwest Tonight broadcast.

what was the alternative? Reform? No fucking way

It is. It's just a coincidence that the surname subdivides into two words that have an unfortunate connotation, @TheNuthatch .

Not Labour then

It is aligned with many of their values but their plans for how to achieve it are politically and economically naive beyond belief, or non existent.

She did not say that in response to his question. My post above gives the actual transcript.

Oh please. Ppl on GB news going on about family voting even before the result was out. Same old playbook. " oh dear, a green person has won. Oh. I know. Let's find any feeble thing we can to discredit her before she even gets starred" Yawn.

It's definitely true, ZP has apologised for it. Looks more like it was a one off than the basis of his bucks business but still.

Clipped in a very deliberate way.

Started

The Greens are also misogynistic, given they think that men can be women and wish to destroy women's rights (because there can be no women's rights if men are included).

All parties want better education, better living standards, better environment, better nhs etc. why wouldn't they? It would be wonderful for everyone and keep them in power for ages. The problem is that those things cost a huge amount of money and someone has to pay for them. Apparently that is the Billionaires. If the Greens got in, the number of Billionaires in the UK would go from very few to none. Even if some billionaires stayed it wouldn't makea dent. Which means the Greens are lying or very bad at maths.

The reality of having the Greens in power is that the country would get poorer and everyone's standard of living would get worse, except for the Billionaires who would have moved to another country.

I'm assuming you can't see any negatives in men having totally unrestricted access to women's spaces or services? Even though men are women's greatest predator and violence against women and girls is at epidemic levels. I also assume that you'd be entirely comfortable sharing a rape crisis centre with men? If so, you really, really are quite the outlier. Your comment about pearl clutching is am immature attempt to diminish the obvious dangers of allowing men into any and all women only spaces. But if you (and your daughters if you have any) are happy to give men a free pass without question to those spaces and services then crack on.

Go Greens. Most sensible party out there. They are human scale. Not like other parties out to line their own pockets and their billionaire friends..Go Greens. Go all the way !!

Is there a source for this with exact words used and context?