Dawn Butler MP accused of race baiting

Standards in public life are rapidly declining. This MP has previous form, she has been thrown out of HOC.

Should really engage her mind before posting or speaking.

https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/national/24699120.pm-says-dawn-butler-quite-right-delete-tweet-new-tory-leader/

Yahoo is part of the Yahoo family of brands :lol:

https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1853127444766879945

I am confused. How can people make any sense of this.

The only collective I know of are Borg .[ Star Trek] The Borg are a collection of species that have turned into cybernetic organisms functioning as drones of the collective or the hive. Borg is an acronym for “blackout rage gallon.”

Diane Abbott and Dawn Butler likely to become members of this new party.

The PM was quick to remove the whip from others who opposed an amendment and did not vote.

I don’t know much about Dawn Butler, to be honest.
She’s not my MP or in the government cabinet and I don’t follow the careers of all of the back bench MPs, unless they are in the news for doing something special.

As I understand it, this latest spat is about a Tweet that somebody else wrote and posted on X.
Nels Abbey is a British-Nigerian satirical author and he wrote a satirical piece about Badenoch becoming leader of Tory Party.
He posted it on X
Dawn Butler “re-tweeted” it but didn’t write anything herself about it.
The news reports say Butler “quickly deleted” the re-tweet.

It doesn’t say how “quickly” - a few minutes? , a few hours? a few days?
I have no idea if she realised herself that it wasn’t a good idea for an MP to share contentious satire on social media or if someone else noticed it and suggested she delete it.
Some people are claiming that by re-tweeting the post, she “appeared to endorse it”
If they are using that logic, then presumably by deleting the re-tweet she has appeared to acknowledge her mistake of sharing it in the first place.

I can’t see the point of stoking the story any further when she has already acknowledged her mistake of sharing it by quickly deleting the re-tweet.

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If anybody else had posted this, there would have been an outrage.

Keir Starmer is inconsistent, his scycophantic behaviour makes it’s likely there will be more bad decisions.

Am I the only one who suspects some senior Tories are pulling the Race-Bating strings.

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Think our politicians acting for bit parts in Downton Abbey.

Seriously: Braverman, Anderson and tired Tory Islamophobia - Red Pepper