What a delightful “young woman” comments on Widdecombe death

[Deanefan]

Directed to this by a friend from Aberdeen
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16536795/heather-herbert-ann-widdecombe-death-comments/

Also, and sorry to quote myself, I think she was over penalised for being a woman. And who she is married to. I'm not sure a random bloke would have been imprisoned.

Thanks @oldtiredcyclist!

I'm frankly amazed that the Scottish Police have decided to start taking it seriously that this group of men are making violent threats to/statements about women. As previous posters have pointed out, TIMs have been allowed to behave this way for the last decade without repercussions.

My goodness, I thought that was parody. So it really happened.

"I thought we lived in a free country", says the man who tried to get a barrister sacked for commenting on the anti-woman bile he spouts.

Well said.

Sadly so!

Yep as justice goes I agree.

Jaysus cryst, the state of them! It's pitiful. Truly, truly pitiful. It would be truly pitiful if these violent hate-filled ghouls weren't threatening elderly women and weren't so eaten up with hate because the female sex dares say 'no' to them. You must wonder what their parents and wider family think when they see images like that and hear what they've said. I mean, do these people not realise they are playing straight into the feminists'/GC hands?

Lucy Connolly deleted her tweet very soon after and was jailed for, well, I can't remember how long. I know someone will furnish us with the exact length. But we know darn well don't we, that this 'Heather' won't be jailed at all, despite saying an elderly woman should be chained and basically raped.

Two-Teir system.

31 weeks, she served 40% - just googled it.

Not that I support her tweet, but I believe she said 'for all I care' at the end of it. She wasn't saying they should, she was saying she didn't care. It's like if I said "set fire to the Mens Rights group, for all I care". I think there is a difference.

Any employer faced with this kind of behaviour and anticipating firing the employee as a result is well advised to go through due process. That includes investigating the allegations, giving the employee the evidence and inviting them to a disciplinary hearing and allowing them to explain their position, then considering mitigating factors (length of service, previous record, whether the post was deleted, remorse, etc.) before finally offering them a right of appeal.

This all takes a while, as you can imagine, but failing to follow a fair process like this can mean a dismissal is found to be unfair at a tribunal even if the underlying conduct was serious enough to warrant dismissal. The reality is that most successful tribunals brought by employees are successful because the company hasn't followed the correct process.

So I am happy for the university to take their time and get it right before firing this man for his obviously vile posts.

And there needs to be questions asked about what fills these young men with so much venomous hate against women. They are so hateful. And the thing is, there is no reason for it. It's not justified.

She was a patsy for racial tensions. Being a woman made it easier.

He’s 50 years old.

Yes, due process needs to happen. And having sat on university disciplinary panels, it takes TIME. Particularly over the summer given getting together the appropriate people to look at it can be tricky. They need to be water tight, and I'd not be surprised if he was suspended on full pay while it grinds it's way through, and that's fair.

@LunaShip Found the judge's sentencing remarks here https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/R-v-Lucy-Connolly.pdf and you are right, it's quoted there. Pretty clear that her stated remorse was not genuine and I still think it was inciting violence.

Yes the University needs to follow its process fairly - little doubt they should then sack him.

It's scary when you see how they talk online. They seem to truly and honestly believe that JK Rowling wants transgender people dead or put in concentration camps and thus feel justified in making violent threats towards her, because of some crime that they invented in the first place.

Just when you think it couldn’t get any stranger, third polycule member ‘Poppybear’ seems to back on BlueHair with a very weird video rant, and appears to be equally in some bother.

nitter.net/theparty1sover/status/2077723566091415851?s=46

Christ. He's very unwell, and given the incredibly high bar for being charged with sexual assault, I would posit that he's very dangerous too.

What a shame that a worthy contributor like Ann has been taken away so filth like that continue having oxygen provided. They want to be women but can't respect the biological and only version. Their insecurities endanger women.

I know who I'd rather have had a coffee with. We would have disagreed over a whole host of things, but it would have been interesting, a robust debate and non threatening. And we might even have agreed on the choice of biscuits.

On Twitter, Wings posted this image with the comment 'This is who the SNP have been working for for the last decade'

This was the group who, after the final vote of the GRR Bill, several MSP's stood to applaud.

You'll notice several members of the polycule amongst them.

Polite words fail me.