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Mhairi Black standing down.

128 replies

Rainbowshit · 04/07/2023 15:26

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66101123.amp

Hmm wonder if she's lining herself up to be leader of the SNP at some point? Definitely not the last we'll see of her unfortunately.

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Merrilydancing · 06/07/2023 23:25

Yolo12345 · 06/07/2023 23:14

Daughter of a teacher and a social worker ...in Glasgow...state educated and that makes her "not very working class"....I'm actually speechless...! Well she might have a bit more of a clue than a lot of the other toffs in Westminster jaysus!

Absolutely not working class, not even remotely so. Doesn’t mean she hasn’t a clue but working class she ain’t and never has been!

happygolurkey · 06/07/2023 23:26

Merrilydancing · 06/07/2023 22:55

I think most people automatically change their accent to suit their surroundings it’s perfectly normal to do so in order to be understood.

If I spoke in my Scottish non central belt accent most people wouldn’t understand me!

So yes I do judge someone who seemingly doesn’t understand the need to do so as once again it shrieks of middle classes patronising the working class by trying to pretend that they are like them.

so now she's being slammed for NOT changing her accent. ha ha, this just gets better and better.
and what do you mean by that she doesn't understand the 'need' to do so - why does she 'need' to? Who are these people who don't understand what Mhairi Black is saying, must confess I've never heard anyone claiming that

Merrilydancing · 06/07/2023 23:31

If I didn’t change my Scottish accent for the benefit of other Scots I simply would not be understood, it’s that simple.

maybebalancing · 06/07/2023 23:53

She absolutely isn't the class that she pretends to be with her accent.
I can understand people who aren't local being taken in by her act but I'm amazed anyone who grew up in the area is.

Scottishskifun · 07/07/2023 09:10

Fandabedodgy · 06/07/2023 23:19

Cocaine habit and an appalling attendance record.

Would fit right in with SNP leadership

Yep and conveniently her attendance record is being skipped over completely by those who say criticism is ridiculous!
At one point she had the worst attendance record in Parliament- it got better when she could vote by proxy during covid!

Sorry but if you are elected to be at Westminster that means turning up not giving excuses that it's tiring to travel for your job!

BigBoysDontCry · 07/07/2023 09:22

Scottishskifun · 07/07/2023 09:10

Yep and conveniently her attendance record is being skipped over completely by those who say criticism is ridiculous!
At one point she had the worst attendance record in Parliament- it got better when she could vote by proxy during covid!

Sorry but if you are elected to be at Westminster that means turning up not giving excuses that it's tiring to travel for your job!

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Maybe it was because alcohol was Banned on trains? Mind you she broke that rule as well.

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 09:26

happygolurkey · 06/07/2023 23:03

think she was making a joke that at aged 20 she didn't really warrant a book deal for her autobiography. That same article you quote from mentions she got a first in Politics and Public Policy that summer, so she could hardly have been trying to hide the fact

Yes, the article mentions it - she doesn’t. Oh come off it, the ‘joke’ wasn’t funny and she didn’t mention her university degree at all. Where was the ‘I left school and went to university’ in all that?

She’s the worst kind of phoney - probably the drugs addling her brain.

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 18:32

she posted a picture of herself on twitter in her gown the day she graduated with her first class honours degree, weeks after becoming an MP. In numerous articles at the time she was quoted as saying how proud she was of it. There's loads of articles on line where she mentions being a student

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 18:36

And yet she still presents herself as a chip shop worker turned MP.

She’s a coke snorting, faux working class, workshy rent-a-gob who comes out with the most vile, offensive shite - politics will be a better place without her.

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 18:38

Merrilydancing · 06/07/2023 23:31

If I didn’t change my Scottish accent for the benefit of other Scots I simply would not be understood, it’s that simple.

fair enough, but I still don't get why Mhairi Black has to change how she speaks because people don't understand you.
If she was unintelligible I would take the point but I've never heard anyone say they can't understand what she's saying.

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 18:40

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 18:36

And yet she still presents herself as a chip shop worker turned MP.

She’s a coke snorting, faux working class, workshy rent-a-gob who comes out with the most vile, offensive shite - politics will be a better place without her.

the tone of your posts, I don't think i'll be taking lectures from you about what's vile and offensive

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 18:47

No lecturing from me, simply the truth. I can see from the tone of you posts you think “plastic Irishmen”, “cunts” and all the other bile that comes out of her mouth is perfectly justifiable because, y’know, Mhairi Black.

MrsMarzetti · 07/07/2023 18:48

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 18:36

And yet she still presents herself as a chip shop worker turned MP.

She’s a coke snorting, faux working class, workshy rent-a-gob who comes out with the most vile, offensive shite - politics will be a better place without her.

Spot on.

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 19:00

except that word didn't 'come out of her mouth' did it?
You, however, seem rather fixated with it, using it repeatedly as you've done throughout the thread

NatashaDancing · 07/07/2023 19:12

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 19:00

except that word didn't 'come out of her mouth' did it?
You, however, seem rather fixated with it, using it repeatedly as you've done throughout the thread

Which word are you disputing?

If it's "cunts" what she said about women in her constituency was that they were "Jeremy Hunts"

Which in its way is worse than if she had had the courage to just say "cunts"

Everybody knew she meant "cunts"
It's still insulting to her constituents but is also insulting to her fellow Parliamentarian.

And finally making fun of someone's name in such a nasty way is the behaviour of a playground bully.

MichelleScarn · 07/07/2023 19:14

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 18:36

And yet she still presents herself as a chip shop worker turned MP.

She’s a coke snorting, faux working class, workshy rent-a-gob who comes out with the most vile, offensive shite - politics will be a better place without her.

👏👏👏

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 19:16

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 19:00

except that word didn't 'come out of her mouth' did it?
You, however, seem rather fixated with it, using it repeatedly as you've done throughout the thread

Are you aware what Jeremy Hunt is in rhyming slang? Mhairi Black certainly is, and so are the women she chose to insult.

Ripedoughnutpeaches · 07/07/2023 19:26

I’m getting strong vibes from the wedding pics of someone about to declare they are actually a man.

NatashaDancing · 07/07/2023 20:13

SirChenjins · 07/07/2023 19:16

Are you aware what Jeremy Hunt is in rhyming slang? Mhairi Black certainly is, and so are the women she chose to insult.

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As indeed is Jeremy Hunt. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Jeremy Hunt it's despicable for an adult and an adult who is an elected Member of Parliament to validate playground bullying.

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 20:21

She didn't call 'women in her constituency' that at all. You don't seem to have a clue what you're talking about

stargirl1701 · 07/07/2023 20:23

She reminds me of Jack Monroe.

stealtheatingtunnocks · 08/07/2023 17:39

Ripedoughnutpeaches · 07/07/2023 19:26

I’m getting strong vibes from the wedding pics of someone about to declare they are actually a man.

Yes, I have been expecting the same. The couple do look happy and besotted with each other, despite the unironed tablecloth, but i get the impression that MB needs to be special.

being a lesbian isn’t special

SirChenjins · 08/07/2023 18:44

Would that make her the first openly trans man (ie a woman obvs) in the SG (providing she stands up here, which I imagine she will do - may the gods help us all)?

ATeamsvan · 11/07/2023 17:19

happygolurkey · 07/07/2023 20:21

She didn't call 'women in her constituency' that at all. You don't seem to have a clue what you're talking about

Didn't she call women who objected to the self-id changes this? And if they were writing to MB, then they will have been constituents.