Reform activists depict female cabinet ministers as cows in abattoir.

We will have plenty of opportunities to call them out, and keep them out.

Wyllow3

Mansplaining? Or just being provocative? This relates to cloaked threats of violence specifically addressed to women.

If the people who put up the display had wanted to critique the government it would have had both male and female leading figures, wouldnt it.

Or misandry on your part

And this is the party that Dominic Cummings [remember him?] is saying will be the government of this country in a few years time. Heaven help us....

Are showered, not arm showered.

It is only a few more easy steps from "banter" about extreme violence to all campaigning and voting being at open hustings where candidates of the opposing party arm showered with rotten fruit and eggs, and to voting being a public spectacle where your neighbours choice can be noted and if you disagee with it you can follow them home and administer suitable punishment.

Farage cronies showing their true colours. Disgraceful.

Presumably this display has now been removed?

Wyllow3

Mansplaining? Or just being provocative? This relates to cloaked threats of violence specifically addressed to women.

If the people who put up the display had wanted to critique the government it would have had both male and female leading figures, wouldnt it.

It would indeed with fat pigs and dirty dogs labelled with the names of male politicians and the pigs on the way to the abattoir with the cows and the dogs off to the vets. But that was not the choice that Reform made.

Won’t make friends or influence people, just the opposite so the joke is on them

I would like to think so Oreo.

Sadly, I believe there are those in society who will find it funny / banter / deserved🤬 And those of us calling it out for the disgrace that it is … well, we’re tofu eating, lefty wokerati (I’m fine with that, apart from the tofu🤣).

I know the sign was meaning their days were numbered politically but it was a crass and horrible thing to do.Won’t make friends or influence people, just the opposite so the joke is on them.

Mansplaining? Or just being provocative? This relates to cloaked threats of violence specifically addressed to women.

If the people who put up the display had wanted to critique the government it would have had both male and female leading figures, wouldnt it.

Wyllow3

As Elegran put it on the last page,

If we don't object, then we are complicit in the coarsening of the political scene in this country, and the descent into the threat of physical violence as an accepted way of influencing national policy. That is throwing away hundreds of years of progress into more or less civilised rule of law".

It's also the particular nasty misogyny picking on women politicians. its like turning the clock back, when it was common to call women "fat cows" as normal discourse, and taken a long time for women to challenge this sort of insult.

It’s the same abuse as calling a man a Fat Pig or a Dirty Dog, by commonly heard obscenities today a fairly mild insult.

Wyllow3

As Elegran put it on the last page,

If we don't object, then we are complicit in the coarsening of the political scene in this country, and the descent into the threat of physical violence as an accepted way of influencing national policy. That is throwing away hundreds of years of progress into more or less civilised rule of law".

It's also the particular nasty misogyny picking on women politicians. its like turning the clock back, when it was common to call women "fat cows" as normal discourse, and taken a long time for women to challenge this sort of insult.

Believe me if a cow injures someone, its beef burgers soon, keeping an aggressive cow is a very bad idea.

Farage said "“If there is the odd lapse in taste, then I regret it, but it’s kind of called politics.”

I don't know how long the tents were up, but I think the police should have been called in to at least take it all down. They were put up before the elections, of course, its a shame the national press didn't catch onto it then.

Some may find this funny. Shame on them. I think it's hate crime that should be dealt with by Farage firstly and Keir Starmer should stand up for the women in his party.
Just proves what I've always thought of Reform as a bunch of bullies.

As Elegran put it on the last page,

If we don't object, then we are complicit in the coarsening of the political scene in this country, and the descent into the threat of physical violence as an accepted way of influencing national policy. That is throwing away hundreds of years of progress into more or less civilised rule of law".

It's also the particular nasty misogyny picking on women politicians. its like turning the clock back, when it was common to call women "fat cows" as normal discourse, and taken a long time for women to challenge this sort of insult.

nanna8

Talking about females being cows. Foul. That is what I mean by unpleasant. Not a topic I would want to talk about, it is nauseating.Don’t give them any more publicity,they don’t deserve it.

It's not the cow so much, as cows are much maligned.

It's the abattoir reference which needs to be investigated.

David49

Farage is much more dangerous than cows, at he end of the day cows are just £1000 worth of beef, that’s where a dangerous cow ends up.

Cows produce milk and calves.

Steer or heifers are intended for beef.

Talking about females being cows. Foul. That is what I mean by unpleasant. Not a topic I would want to talk about, it is nauseating.Don’t give them any more publicity,they don’t deserve it.

Farage is much more dangerous than cows, at he end of the day cows are just £1000 worth of beef, that’s where a dangerous cow ends up.

Who on earth thought that was a good idea! Puerile, absolutely pathetic and the height of bad taste, or rather no taste at all. I believe Hertsmere used to be Tory country. Now it’s idiots.

If we don't object, then we are complicit in the coarsening of the political scene in this country, and the descent into the threat of physical violence as an accepted way of influencing national policy. That is throwing away hundreds of years of progress into more or less civilised rule of law
I agree. There is nothing funny about calling female politicians "cows" and pointing them in the direction of the abattoir. Farage should be criticising such behaviour but he doesn't. Surely Reform voters think this is crossing a line.

Do you mean it is unpleasant for the leader of a political organisation, who is aiming to be a candidate for Prime Minister in a future election, to appear to approve of the use of death threats and hate language against members of the current administration, calling them cows about to be slaughtered?

Or do you mean that it is unpleasant of posters to object to that misogyny, hate language, and threatened violence?

There is a big difference!

If we don't object, then we are complicit in the coarsening of the political scene in this country, and the descent into the threat of physical violence as an accepted way of influencing national policy. That is throwing away hundreds of years of progress into more or less civilised rule of law.

Yes, I wondered that too Cossy.

nanna8

It is a very unpleasant thread.

?? Unpleasant thread or unpleasant topic?