So Will The Muslim Grooming Gangs Now Be Dealt With?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65160429
..ignore the PC cobras and the apologists and nick the lowlives.

[webbo3]

This, from a Labour MP, she may not have said it but she retweeted it.
https://images.app.goo.gl/SeGDvtoEaeJTkWCS7

[naomi24]

I remember that, webbo. I think she did say something like that.

[sp1814]

The facts on that case:

https://fullfact.org/online/naz-shah-diversity-quote-tweet/

In 2020, Ms Shah successfully sued the campaigning group Leave.EU after it called her a “grooming gang apologist” in a 2019 Facebook post. The group apologised and accepted Ms Shah was a "vociferous campaigner for victims of grooming gangs", said their post was “ill-judged and untrue” and paid her damages for libel.

[webbo3]

But she did retweet it didn't she.

[sp1814]

webbo

Accidentally. I don't think that these are her opinions especially as the report states that "Naz has been working for over 20 years on the issues of child abuse, violence against women and grooming, which is well documented.”

[sp1814]

webbo

By the way - I'm not claiming she didn't like the tweet. I'm trying to give some context.

[webbo3]

\\webbo

By the way - I'm not claiming she didn't like the tweet. I'm trying to give some context.//

Yeah I know, but you really can't accidentally tweet or retweet something, I always read something twice before I retweet, I wonder if she is still friends with the sender of the tweet.

[naomi24]

I think this is the same woman who suggested Israeli Jews be relocated in the USA.

[sp1814]

webbo

It's soooo very easy. I get tweets that come up on my Mac as notifications. Normally I just dismiss them, but 'Dismiss' and 'Like' are very close together and I myself have accidentally clicked on the wrong icon when I've not been thinking.

But this case - looks different to me. The account she follows is a comedy/satirical one. What may work as an ironic tweet can suddenly look extremely bad when read as a dry statement.

It's like liking something Ali G may have jokingly said about women and then realising in bad it comes across later.

[naomi24]

Perhaps what she said about Israeli Jews was a joke too.

[ToraToraTora]

she's well know as a fruit cake.

[webbo3]

Naz Shah or the original tweeter. ? ^

[sp1814]

Oooh...the Israeli Jew thing - that one sounds pretty indefensible...also really really impractical.

[ToraToraTora]

have a day off sp, if a tory had done an equivalent tweet you'd be doing a rain dance instead of trying to make excuses for their bigotry.

[sp1814]

TTT

I don't think that's true...but if that's what you think c'est la vie.

No biggie.

[sp1814]

Hang on - "trying to make excuses for their bigotry".

Did you read the link from Full Fact?

I'm not sure that constitutes making an excuse. That seems a pretty reasonable defence. I couldn't defend her remarks about Jews relocating?

Did you read that as me trying to defend her?

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. It looks like the opposite to me.