Labour candidate who abused Joanna Cherry gets dumped

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www.thenational.scot/news/18021427.labour-drops-candidate-describing-snps-joanna-cherry-terf/

When The National asked Labour boss Richard Leonard yesterday if he thought terf was an acceptable term for a candidate to use, he replied “no”.

Now if only someone could explain that to the Lib Dems.

At least there are some standards in public life left.

I was so heartened by this news.
Her original Tweet "Bang, and the terf is gone" is so symptomatic of the anti-woman activism taking over modern day politics and policy.

It's a case of too little too late, but at least there's a shift in recognising the interminable misogyny inherent in gender ideology.

"I apologised about the actual content of the meme. It was silly, I posted it without looking very hard at it."

(having photoshopped an existing image to tell a story I wished to portray I then decided to tweet it but on reflection I just didn't look close enough...incredible....)

Oh well thank goodness for that, a small amount of faith restored back in the Labour Party.

Good.

Yay!

Really good news. The Jo Cox Foundation probably weren't too pleased with her publicizing being a graduate of one of their schemes...

(having photoshopped an existing image to tell a story I wished to portray I then decided to tweet it but on reflection I just didn't look close enough...incredible....)

To be fair to her she didn't create the meme. a woke young man did: He was afterwards exposed as having been racist, misogynistic and yes even transphobic in the past on Twitter and deleted his account.

To be fair, the fact she didn’t create the meme is irrelevant.

She’s a woman and expendable. Imagine if they had dropped one of the ‘others’ for similar (and worse) behaviour?
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I hope she is sorry, I hope she can learn to see other people's perspectives.

No she was played. A silly immature woman played by a obnoxious man. How could we trust her on anything?

She’s a woman and expendable. Imagine if they had dropped one of the ‘others’ for similar (and worse) behaviour?

I must admit that was my feeling a bit. Still the posts were very unpleasant and her apology half hearted. If this is a sign that Scottish Labour are not going to let TRAs abuse women in the same way they do in the rest of the party then great.

I think this makes it harder for other constituency parties to excuse online abuse.

The Jo Cox Foundation probably weren't too pleased with her publicizing being a graduate of one of their schemes...

The Jo Cox Foundation rejected Jo Bartosch's application for its women in leadership foundation in favour of er... other applicants, for example, Heather Peto.

To be fair, the fact she didn’t create the meme is irrelevant.

It was a reply to a specific point that she couldn't have failed to notice the content because she made it herself. She didn't. That's all. It doesn't absolve her from tweeting it, and she was the political candidate, not him.

To be fair to her she didn't create the meme. a woke young man did: He was afterwards exposed as having been racist, misogynistic and yes even transphobic in the past on Twitter and deleted his account.

Colour me surprised.

She reposted it and gleefully commented on it (and I believed had no shame until she got the boot). So not an accidental/thoughtless act.

I agree.

She reposted it and gleefully commented on it (and I believed had no shame until she got the boot)

She attempted to DARVO Joanna Cherry.

I don't think this is any victory against the TRAs. The report I heard said it was deemed to be a problem because it was about throwing bleach at someone. No judgement on women's rights or the value of Joanna Cherry's work. :(

They're dropping like flies at the moment, and I have some sympathy for this one:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-50338256

...having used that analogy myself in the past.

Some women are discovering that their ‘fab and fun’ new pals are just nasty little piss takers who don’t really give a shit about them.

It seems that some people are learning-phobic:

twitter.com/FCH00LE/status/1192843639757647872

Aww bless the wean. I suppose they (sing) has (sing) more time on their (sing) hands now.