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Anniebach Sun 22-Oct-17 08:49:58

www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/20/labour-mp-clive-lewis-apologises-for-get-on-your-knees-comment

This as the Labour Party conference , a momentum fringe meeting.

Corbyn attended Momentum fringe invites but turned down Friends of Israel invite.

Very Donald Trump isn't it?

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 17:40:08

Eleothan, you flatter me but I really think you need to get a life , searching for old posts is so sad. Try scrabble on line

Darnsarf Mon 23-Oct-17 17:56:33

grin

Eloethan Mon 23-Oct-17 17:57:14

As usual, you appear unable to address any of the points I have made but revert to your usual tactic of making rude and personal remarks.

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 18:26:25

Eleothan, I have no intention of replying to your post, I have said many times, I will not feed the need for the Corbynites here.

durhamjen Mon 23-Oct-17 18:27:42

So funny, Annie. You start a thread about Corbyn and then have no intention of replying to anyone's posts.
How sad.

durhamjen Mon 23-Oct-17 18:36:42

"Bercow dismisses call for emergency debate on Clive Lewis as 'absurd'

At the weekend the Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani said she would be applying for an emergency debate on the Labour MP Clive Lewis using of the phrase “on your knees, bitch”. (It was obviously a dubious joke, but for various different reasons a coalition of people took offence, and bizarrely it ended up as a story on the News at 10.)

In the Commons John Bercow has just described Ghani’s proposal as “absurd” and “inappropriate”. He clearly did not even allow Ghani to make an application for an emergency debate in the Commons. He was speaking in response to the Tory MP Amanda Milling, who tried to raise the matter as a point of order. Bercow was quite dismissive towards Milling too, telling her she could try for an adjournment debate. "

This afternoon in parliament.

durhamjen Mon 23-Oct-17 18:37:56

However, he has agreed to have an emergency debate tomorrow on Universal credit.
What a sensible man, even if he is nominally a Tory.

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 18:40:48

No, I started a thread about Corbyns Momentum and an offensive comment by a labour MP at a Momentum fridge meeting.

Connection - Labour MP, offensive remark, Momentum members who cheered the offensive remark,

Not Boris Johnson, a blogger called Fawkes, Owen Jones and countless others who had no connection with the Labour Party or Momentum. The most qnumber of posts were in favour of the offensive remark , end of,

durhamjen Mon 23-Oct-17 18:51:11

I agree, Annie, end of.
It was a non-story anyway, as Bercow said twice today.

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 18:57:02

No, offensive , vulgar comments by an MP are not a non story , I don't care which party, he was crude and foul mouthed, I accept not by your standards Jen but definitely by mine,

Iam64 Mon 23-Oct-17 18:58:41

Goodness durhamjen, I expressed my 'disapproval' about CL comments but - the very idea of a parliamentary emergency debate about it is total nonsense. Thank goodness for common sense and proper behaviour from John Bercow. If comments from people like myself could fuel that kind of I'd withdraw them, much as I'd like to have the free speech opportunity to be an old fuddy duddy.
On a brighter note, does that mean the tories are feeling the pressure , I do hope so. I heard JC on the lunch time news in a parliamentary comment about Groundhog Day when discussing TMs approach to Brexit. He sounded positive and confident - good.

maryeliza54 Mon 23-Oct-17 19:13:27

I wonder where those aghast Tory woman MPs were when DD was so offensive to Diane Abbot? I expect he was just joking so that’s all right then?

durhamjen Mon 23-Oct-17 19:19:04

Tory MPs were sitting behind May when the Scottish Tory MP sitting by her arm mouthed the words "You bitch" at Yvette Cooper.

Nothing happened then. I suppose that was parliamentary privilege.

durhamjen Mon 23-Oct-17 19:19:50

David Mundell, it was.

durhamjen Mon 23-Oct-17 19:20:44

Did you complain about that, Annie?

maryeliza54 Mon 23-Oct-17 19:28:38

The sheer hypocrisy on here is jaw dropping. By all means hold MPs to account for disrespectful/ unacceptable comments about women but have the morality to hold ALL MPs who do that to account and not just those on the left.

Primrose65 Mon 23-Oct-17 19:43:35

Maybe that's a topic for a different thread?
I get fed up with threads about momentum and Corbyn being hijacked like this.

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 19:44:55

Who said it was a disrespectful comment about women ? He said it to a man, male or female makes no difference , it was obscene .

In my opinion, not in the opinion of the majority on this thread . Could be I don't mix with people who speak in such an obscene manner, but it's my opinion and I am entitled to it, just as others are entitled to find it acceptable

maryeliza54 Mon 23-Oct-17 19:58:09

This thread was started as has been said just to have another
go at a Corbyn and Momentum - again. Tedious, boring, nothing new to say.

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 20:05:09

Then why bother to post ?

Primrose65 Mon 23-Oct-17 20:09:40

Exactly Annie. If you're not interested in the topic, don't post!

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 20:14:11

Eleothan even went searching for old posts of mine, strange thing to do for what is classed as a non story by those who have posted the most , most odd

Chewbacca Mon 23-Oct-17 20:15:17

Take it as a compliment Anniebach!

Anniebach Mon 23-Oct-17 20:24:45

Chewbacca, searching for old posts than copying and pasting them is sad , quite worrying.

Chewbacca Mon 23-Oct-17 20:29:15

Probably means that they haven't got anything better to do Annie. Try thinking of them as your fan club! grin

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