Thanks for the link nauticant
I think the whole “whores” thing is a red herring but I was interested to know if there was evidence of what was actually said.
The mention in the article in The Times is slightly different to what seems to be the earliest report in the Manchester Evening News and there are other slight variations in other, later articles. So, not conclusive.
This really is a diversion from the real issue, ie. the vague complaint made by KO. “Vague” because nobody seems to have stated what was actually said.
Anyway, I was intrigued enough to see if I could find anything more definitive.
The main significance of the “whore emails” is not who used the word but whether the emails are evidence that EB was aware of her father operating brothels when she was in her late teens/early twenties and might therefore be considered complicit or condoning of his actions.
There are people online suggesting that as a 14 year old she should have been aware of the true nature of her father’s business and was therefore partly responsible for sex trafficking as a child! Nice, offload some of the sins of the father directly onto his 14 year old daughter 🙄
However, the “whore emails” seem to disprove that she was aware at all until well after her father was charged and when she was away at University. Some people are suggesting she would have taken copies of the Manchester local newspaper when she was away at University so would have known earlier. Yeah, right, totally likely. Typical student behaviour.
Trawling through the comments on articles it is impossible to miss that a lot of people really, really want to find a way to implicate her. In between criticising her for being too pretty, too clever, too blonde, too blunt, too Tory, too Labour, etc. etc.
The clearest refutation of the significance of the “whore emails” in terms of prior knowledge is in a correction published by Craig Murray, updating an earlier hit-piece of his about EB.
Murray does not like her. His main complaint seems to be that she is a “Tory toff” who is biased against his favourite politicians and he lays it on thick that her advantages in life are down to the wages of sin.
This is Murray’s correction:
The Sins of The Father
Craig Murray
May 30, 2017
”Having spent the afternoon researching, the evidence tends to support Emma Barnett’s claim that she had been personally unaware that her family’s wealthy lifestyle was funded by the pimping and sex-trafficking activities of her parents. The emails between herself and her father about “whores” referenced by the Manchester Evening News, contained denials by her father to Emma that he remained involved. I therefore have here deleted my earlier entry which suggested the existence of these emails may argue against her claim of ignorance.”
Continued at:
www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/05/the-sins-of-the-father/
It very much sounds as if Murray has had sight of the emails but he does not quote them directly, perhaps because they are private correspondence? It leaves open the question of who said what but, given Murray’s antipathy to EB, it is hard to imagine he would have missed this opportunity to out her as the one who referred to “whores”.
Finally, searching Twitter for EB’s handle plus “whores” it is horrible to see that she has been hounded for years about this, often with embellishments claiming without any evidence that EB was directly involved in trafficking sex slaves. Pretty sick.
Search for EB’s handle plus “racist” and of course there are people calling her out over the WH incident, including some odd threats:
”She’s racist and will be dealt with by the ancestors- when will these people learn. We are no longer in play school.”
From reading articles that EB herself has written, I don’t particularly like how she comes over. However, that’s not the point.
Unless someone comes up with the actual “whore emails” I am done with that - and I still see it as a side-issue, raised simply to cast doubts on her character in the absence of evidence of unprofessionalism as alleged by KO.
Until KO states what she overheard, I am done with that too. If it was so bad, why not quote EB?