Labour phone canvasser whingeing about transphobia

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Self-identified, obvs - might be bollocks. But it's interesting:

What is ‘ratioing’?

Mimmymum has such a perfect username, like something JK Rowling would have picked out for her.

Loving Ben's Tweet too.

Where the number of likes and retweets is in inverse proportion to the number of comments. Showing that more people disapprove than approve of your tweet.

But you can retweeted with the comment ‘is this man on crack?’.

Hi Helen! [waves]

BTW, it's free to participate in the discussion here - you can just sign up. It would be so much easier than just reading reacting to what we actually say whinging on twitter about us.

Pull up a virtual chair!

You can yes. You can also post fawning comments. But in general if there's a pronounced ratioit's a good guide to how the tweet went down.

Its when replies to a tweet outnumber the likes.

Usually happens when the tweet is bunkum

This is incredibly encouraging. It means that when Ben and his colleagues are phoning up Labour Party members, they're getting a earful about the pledge to expel feminists and/or Nandy's promise to put male rapists in women's prison. So instead of being a niche issue, it has, finally, registered with ordinary members - and they don't like it.

I wonder if Ben and co are making a list of "transphobes" so they can expel them? And once they have done, how many members will there be left? I'm guessing it will be a couple of hundred white middle-class wokebros with beards, plus a handful of fawning handmaidens.

Are they only calling card carrying members? Shame my folks are long dead - they would have LOVED a call from Benself.

That pledge, Nandys prison views and Butlers take on biology, have really opened eyes I think.

"Facts don't care about your feelings" Ash Sarkar on his timeline.

So is Ashhelf agreeing or arguing, or don’t they know?

I think Helen has been banned, DickKerr.

Ok posted the Ash Sarkar pic on another thread, it was from question time yesterday and about immigration I think, but pretty ironic.

It was very kind of mimmymum to provide a link to this thread.
Bit of an own goal there I think, sweetie.

Good morning vipers. MN gets a mention on the twitter thread, apparently the ratio is all your fault. A thread started here an hour an a half ago managed to instigate a "pile on" which started on the twitter thread 14 hours ago. I'm in awe of you magical powers, how do you do it?

It’s all glitter fairy magic dont’ch know.

I'm feeling excluded, how can I get some of the glitter fairy magic? 😀

Viper witchery.

That pledge, Nandys prison views and Butlers take on biology, have really opened eyes I think.

Agree.

So worrying though that it needs spelling out in children's fridge magnet letters.

I mean, my dear old Nan (no interest in politics, didn't really go to school) was left a young widow after the war, birthing and raising 8 children in poverty while working scrubbing floors. She was left in no doubt as to what womanhood is and what the patriarchy dictates.

How insulting and entitked the likes of Ben are. Clueless.

Qcng

Here is a link to the tweet. I cannot see anyone supporting Ben on that twatter feed. Everyone knows what is happening now. The backlash against this is going to be spectacular.

twitter.com/BenMSmith4/status/1230571607896272897

Can someone explain what is the objection to condemning transphobia? I don't mean the MN interpretation of it, I mean actual transphobia.

I am so hoping to get a call from the Labour Party candidates.

Missed canvassers off the end of that post !

BTW, it's free to participate in the discussion here - you can just sign up

Oh Helen is signed up alright. I have no doubt Helen is one of those reporters who MNHQ identified as being long-standing signed up members with a posting history. MNHQ seem to think that means there can’t possibly be any deliberate targeting of particular posters.