Consequences
Well now here’s a turnup for the books: Scottish Labour has deselected a candidate for tweeting an image that calls Joanna Cherry a TERF and implies she should be shot.
The Scottish Labour candidate who posted a controversial image on Twitter involving her SNP rival has been dropped by the party.
Frances Hoole, a care and support worker, had been chosen to stand as the Labour candidate in the General Election in the Edinburgh South West constituency, attempting to unseat incumbent MP Joanna Cherry.
However last week Ms Hoole, who has been part of Labour’s Jo Cox leadership programme, posted an image on Twitter in which she and Ms Cherry had been photo-shopped, with the caption “Bang! And the terf is gone”.
Hoole deleted the tweet but here is the image:
Says it all, doesn’t it.
Joanna Cherry shared the image, tweeting: “Earlier this year I received a death threat & a storm of misogynistic abuse for defending #womensrights. The @scottishlabour candidate standing against me in #EdinburghSouthWest thinks it’s funny. I hope she will apologise & engage in respectful debate #GE19.”
Hoole, a graduate of Labour Jo Cox leadership programme, then claimed she didn’t “perceive” the image as a threat.
Nicely done, mentioning Jo Cox again – to remind us that in Jo Cox’s case “BANG!” meant she was dead, murdered by an angry man with a gun.
That’s not even a good photoshop job. She should be ostracized just for putting something so sloppy out there. And the message? Wow.
At least this ousting is a bit of brighter news. And for a better reason than just calling a man a man.
I’ve had a bit of a google – which turned weird pretty quick with the YouTube videos and whatnot but I’ll try and forget about that – anyway. What you might not know if you’re not British is that “Bang! And the dirt is gone” is the advertising slogan for a cleaning product called Cillit BANG. I can’t speak for anyone else but I wouldn’t associate it with gun violence or death, but rather a shouty man yelling about ground-in dirt. I mean, still not the most adult thing to use in an election campaign, not least because it seems to be a favourite phrase for my 13- year-old nephew to blurt out in response to any sudden loud noise, but I think it’s plausible to say it’s just stupid rather than murderous.