Emily Thornberry

[number 6]

Looks like she is going to lose her whole career over a tweet. Lets be honest,most people who hang st george flag's outside of their house usually are brain dead idiots. This has got fck all to do with class. But of course UKIP and their ilk are stting the agenda now thanks to the media.

[Essex Lad]

How are Ukip and their ilk (who?) setting the agenda when no one in the media supports Ukip?

[David Johnson]

"Looks like she is going to lose her whole career over a tweet. Lets be honest,most people who hang st george flag's outside of their house usually are brain dead idiots. This has got fck all to do with class. But of course UKIP and their ilk are stting the agenda now thanks to the media."

It is sad to see her go but the bottom line is, she had to go because she broke the rule of "don't take the piss out of the voters" particularly when you

1. Live in trendy Islington.
2. Are married to a High Court judge who bought ex housing association property which he now rents out.
3. Send your kid to a selective school.
4. Come across as a snob.

As for UKIP, the main political parties started off rubbishing UKIP, calling them nutcases etc. etc. and then they became the first non-main party to win a national election (EUropean MEP) in a century. The likes of Labour and Tories are now seen trying to follow the UKIP agenda to varying extents.

You can't do all of that just based on the media.

[Sam Slater]

Emily Thornberry was stupid. If a Tory had tweeted what she did, she'd have quite rightly laid into him/her, crying snobbery and stereotyping the poor.

Labour are supposed to champion the working classes, not publicly take the piss out of some of them over a few flags. What message does that send out to the very people that are your bread and butter? She let herself down and her party here and I've no sympathy at all. Unlike the owner of the house she was sneering at, she'll not have to worry about bills and mortgage payments after losing her position.

As for UKIP........their rise is worrying. Emily Thornberry's attitude hasn't helped at all.

[Essex Lad]

Ukip's rise isn't worrying. It's a kick up the bloated fat arses of the liberal, complacent, political "elite" who take their place at the top table for granted.

Labour represented by people like Miliband, Balls, Cooper, Thornberry, Hodge et al... what do they know of working class people they profess to represent?

What do they know of politics who only politics know?

Chesterton's people of England are finally speaking.

[Sam Slater]

I'm all for giving the two main parties a kick up the backside, and have said so in the past, but effectively using UKIP to do it is worrying.

I do not know one person that's said they're voting UKIP due to their schooling policy. It's all EU, immigrants, EU, immigrants, EU, immigrants. As if without those two things the country would be back to Empire and ruling the waves, blah blah blah. And it's all UKIP seem to talk about. That worries me because they're all about demonising the 'other'.

[Milk Tray Man]

number 6 wrote:

> Lets be honest,most people who hang st george flag's outside of
> their house usually are brain dead idiots.


And there I was thinking all you caring-sharing socialist types were dead against "lazy, negative stereotyping".

[Arginald Valleywater]

No loss to the Labour Party. Another upper class socialist who will struggle to engage with anyone earning less than ?150k a year.
No doubt another Oxbridge PPE graduate is being lined up for her seat...

[David Johnson]

"Another upper class socialist who will struggle to engage with anyone earning less than ?150k a year."

She was brought up on a council estate, failed the 11 plus but went on to make a success of her life. Nuff said.


"No doubt another Oxbridge PPE graduate is being lined up for her seat..."

Why do you have such an inferiority complex? She failed her 11 plus but managed to get to Oxford. Well done her. Typical Tory/UKIPPER, you are. Working people ought to know their place and stay in it to provide semi-slave labour for Tory party corporate donors.

[andy at handiwork]

Political correctness gone mad. Mad I tell you.