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Tulip Sidiq

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FriedGreenTomatoes2 Sun 13-Apr-25 12:13:35

Has been hit with an arrest warrant in Bangladesh for corruption charges.

Does this involve extradition? I’ve no idea.

But whatever, it’s not a good look. I wonder what Starmer thinks about it. They are very friendly apparently.

Wyllow3 Tue 15-Apr-25 15:33:44

eazybee

^Balancing personal loyalty to a self-described good friend with whom he's been on holiday against mounting public and political pressure.^

Would this be the same Keir Starmer (his deputy at the time) who claimed he only backed Jeremy Corbyn to become Prime Minister in the 2019 general election because he was certain that the left-wing Labour leader’s bid was doomed anyway. He was grilled by Beth Rigby who described his “catalogue of broken promises and changed positions”.

I can believe what he said about Corbyn. Given how many of us in the LP felt the same.

Show me any long term prominent political leader who hasn't changed positions! Its called politics.

MayBee70 Tue 15-Apr-25 17:11:54

I wasn’t enamoured of Corbyn but still felt he was a far more decent person than the ones in the opposition.

Ilovedogs22 Tue 15-Apr-25 19:47:00

I truly hope that the always decent & honorable politician Mr Corbyn wouldn't have had anything do with the truly cringworthy Tulip. 😌

Iam64 Tue 15-Apr-25 19:47:13

I stayed in the LP for a year after Corbyn won the leadership. I finally left because despite his supporters saying he had integrity, what I saw was a grumpy man who couldn’t tolerate being challenged. He’d stride off from journalists, giving the impression he saw himself as the onky good guy in the room.
Starmer did what is expected, he supported the leader despite knowing Corbyn was a disaster

Allira Tue 15-Apr-25 22:39:29

Ilovedogs22

Hi Wyllo3, in answer to your question I'll try to explain why she'
appears arrogant.
I think that she presents as if she is God' gift to the universe.
She is so very cocky and full of herself, there is no humility!
As soon as any camera is in sight she zooms into it, delighting us mear mortals to her fake, awful saccharine rictus grin!
As I said arrogant & cocky too.😶

She has always come across as very pleased with herself and somewhat smug on the occasions I have seen her on TV bug thst was just my opinion. However, she is not my constituency MP so I've never met her and have no experience of how good she is so should not judge.

Perhaps it is just supreme self-confidence - is that a bad thing in a young woman?

Ilovedogs22 Wed 16-Apr-25 10:14:07

Most of the very super self-confident women I have ever worked with have either been very annoying or worse still nasty bullies.
They certainly weren't members of the sisterhood. 😗

Wyllow3 Wed 16-Apr-25 10:24:02

She's never been accused of bullying. I get you don't like her!

MayBee70 Wed 16-Apr-25 11:42:10

I wrote to her about something she was speaking about in parliament the other year; can’t remember what it was. But I’ve always been impressed by her when she spoke in parliament. Wasn’t it Patel that was accused of bullying?

MayBee70 Wed 16-Apr-25 12:52:53

Wyllow3

She's never been accused of bullying. I get you don't like her!

I can’t find any mention of Tulip being accused of bullying anywhere.

Iam64 Wed 16-Apr-25 13:14:44

Ilovedogs22

Most of the very super self-confident women I have ever worked with have either been very annoying or worse still nasty bullies.
They certainly weren't members of the sisterhood. 😗

Goodness, what a negative view of confident women

Wyllow3 Wed 16-Apr-25 13:29:05

I think part of her confidence is being born in a relatively privileged and "international" upbringing, although her mum was an asylum seeker. But this is true of many men and women in public life, although confidence can come from the struggles of being born with great disadvantages too.

Its always worth asking the question whether a man presenting as confident using the same words has been judged the same.

Allira Wed 16-Apr-25 14:30:38

Wyllow3

I think part of her confidence is being born in a relatively privileged and "international" upbringing, although her mum was an asylum seeker. But this is true of many men and women in public life, although confidence can come from the struggles of being born with great disadvantages too.

Its always worth asking the question whether a man presenting as confident using the same words has been judged the same.

Its always worth asking the question whether a man presenting as confident using the same words has been judged the same.

I think more so, especially if they were pupils at Eton!

It's more than self-confidence, there is nothing wrong with that at all imo. Confidence was something I had to work on, personally, therefore I encouraged my DD to be brave and confident.

It's rather different from being inordinately pleased with oneself, which is how Tulip comes across, and many men are criticised for that.

Grantanow Thu 17-Apr-25 16:50:08

Let the law take its course.