Rochester and Strood

[stb12]

Rochester and Strood

[iain]

www.medway.gov.uk/downloads/file/8736/notice_of_poll_and_persons_nominated_for_general_election_2024

7 candidates: main 5, Workers, Heritage

[birkinabe]

Reform's vote share here (23.4%) markedly down on UKIP's in 2015 (30.5%) and in the 2014 by-election (42.1%).

[The Bishop]

It appears the new Labour MP here is the first (but likely not the last) to have been found saying embarrassing stuff in the past on social media. She has duly apologised.

However one would also note the offending tweets were up to 15 years ago, and my repeated plea for at least some sort of "statute of limitations" on such matters remains.

[Pete Whitehead]

Aug 8, 2024 12:54:35 GMT The Bishop said:

It appears the new Labour MP here is the first (but likely not the last) to have been found saying embarrassing stuff in the past on social media. She has duly apologised.

However one would also note that the offending tweets were 15 years ago, and my repeated plea for at least some sort of "statute of limitations" on such matters remains.

What did she say in her tweets?

[nyx]

Aug 8, 2024 13:07:31 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Aug 8, 2024 12:54:35 GMT The Bishop said:

It appears the new Labour MP here is the first (but likely not the last) to have been found saying embarrassing stuff in the past on social media. She has duly apologised.

However one would also note that the offending tweets were 15 years ago, and my repeated plea for at least some sort of "statute of limitations" on such matters remains.

What did she say in her tweets?

[Pete Whitehead]

OK all pretty harmless banter then

[sanders]

Reform gain, or maybe Kelly Tollhurst. It’d help Priti Patel become Opposition leader

[batman]

Look matey, please stop the Nazi comparisons. Priti Patel may be many things I abhor, but she isn't a Nazi. I've told you about this before. (expletive deleted) don't do it.

[The Bishop]

Aug 9, 2024 5:59:11 GMT sanders said:

Reform gain, or maybe Kelly Tollhurst. It’d help Priti Patel become Opposition leader.

If this is all there is to it, the chances of a byelection here are pretty low.

[stb12]

I’ve removed a Nazi comparison, everyone please do not do this

[sanders]

Aug 9, 2024 9:58:29 GMT stb12 said:

I’ve removed a Nazi comparison, everyone please do not do this

Fair enough but the word in question is still used in Germany in non-nazi contexts. I checked before posting it. It’s a compound word in common parlance that means opposition leader.

[johnloony]

Aug 9, 2024 9:58:29 GMT stb12 said:

I’ve removed a Nazi comparison, everyone please do not do this

I didn’t see what word was written or what was removed, but (just in case it was a word beginning with F and with an umlaut in it) I would point out that that word is a normal German word which simply means “Leader” and that it doesn’t have to have any particular connotations if it is not in any specific context. (q.v. the Wikipedia article on the subject). Of similarly innocuous meaning are the Italian word “Duce” and the Irish word “Taoiseach” which mean the same thing.

[Foggy]

Aug 9, 2024 12:33:55 GMT johnloony said:

Aug 9, 2024 9:58:29 GMT stb12 said:

I’ve removed a Nazi comparison, everyone please do not do this

I didn’t see what word was written or what was removed, but (just in case it was a word beginning with F and with an umlaut in it) I would point out that that word is a normal German word which simply means “Leader” and that it doesn’t have to have any particular connotations if it is not in any specific context. (q.v. the Wikipedia article on the subject). Of similarly innocuous meaning are the Italian word “Duce” and the Irish word “Taoiseach” which mean the same thing.

If it didn't have an -in on the end then it's masculine which means it would be incorrect to use that word to describe Patel anyway. It's not a term that should be employed for the Leader of HM Loyal Opposition unless one's entire paragraph is in German for some reason.