• Conservative activist suspended after telling Labour MP to 'go back to

    From slider@1:229/2 to All on Saturday, June 20, 2020 09:54:05
    From: slider@atashram.com

    The Conservatives have suspended an activist after she tweeted that a
    Muslim MP born in Bradford should “go back to Pakistan”. The party said Theodora Dickinson was being investigated on Friday after targeting Labour shadow minister Naz Shah.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/19/conservative-activist-suspended-after-telling-labour-mp-to-go-back-to-pakistan

    Dickinson responded to a post showing the Bradford West MP discussing her experience of poverty, saying that if “Naz Shah hates this country so much why doesn’t she go back to Pakistan?!”

    The Muslim Council of Britain, which has long criticised the Tories’
    handling of Islamophobia, described the tweet as “blatant racism”. Screenshot
    A screenshot of Miqdaad Versi’s reposting of Dickinson’s tweet Photograph: Miqdaad Versi/Twitter/PA

    Shah said: “Over the last few weeks BAME (black, Asian and minority
    ethnic) communities have been coming to terms with the racism they have
    faced over the years. In 2020 to be told to go back to Pakistan highlights
    the level of racism that still exists in some quarters of society.”

    Dickinson, who describes herself as a political communications and social
    media consultant, later apologised. “I fully recognise how offensive it
    was, which is why I deleted the tweet almost immediately, though of course
    this does not excuse posting it in the first place,” she added.

    “I have written to Ms Shah offering an unreserved apology.”

    The Tories, who have launched an independent inquiry into all forms of prejudice within the party, said Dickinson had been suspended. “Theodora Dickinson has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation,” a party spokeswoman said.

    ### - can ya believe the blatant racism of this conservative cunt?? she's
    a fucking MP ffs, an ex-campaign manager for the conservative party??

    obviously such racism is rife in our society and still goes right to the
    heart of it!

    am guessing there's gonna be lots of examples of this before we're done
    huh, before it's finally rooted-out forever? it's against the letter of
    the law here to be openly racist (just imagine her actually tweeting
    summat like that?? lol) and so needs to be sacked, barred, fined and/or
    even imprisoned for a time, let's see how this rich-bitch likes that eh?

    what a fucking cow! and is NEVER gonna work in politics openly again LOL !

    so that's one less little shit running the country anyway innit heh...

    gud! :)))

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