Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...
HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.
Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it
So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?
Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
"This is the tenth year I have read this list"
Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips reads names of women killed by men over the last year in the UK
It takes her more than four minutes
https://t.co/PUhKVjV848
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ANALYSIS: The treatment of Jess Phllips over recent days tells me all I need to know about the epidemic of misogyny, sexual abuse and violence against women and girls that still plagues our culture.
The domestic violence campaigner-turned politician, who has spent her career fighting for victims, has found herself the subject of abuse on an industrial scale over the past week that has put her in danger, and, in dark moments, left her wondering whether she should give up frontline politics for good and go back to the women’s hostels where her journey to champion vulnerable women and girls began.
Outspoken and a women’s campaigner, Phillips has long been a lightning rod, but when the world’s richest man, who owns a social media platform with 211m followers, starts trolling you as a “rape genocide apologist”, complicit in a what he claims is a ‘cover-up’ of the most disgusting and sickening abuse, that’s a different order of attention, and danger. This week the female politician charged with trying to protect the actual victims of these unspeakable crimes becames subject to an avalanche of abuse - and threats - herself. It was undoubtedly horrific for Phillips, who tells me she felt physically sick and hunted as the tweets came raining down. And as everyone piled in with their outrage and indignation, where were the voices of the actual victims themselves?
It has been so vicious and noisy and fraught as the very serious matter of grooming gangs and the exploitation, rape and torture of young victims turned into a political battleground of finger pointing and point scoring.
You can read the full piece here > https://t.co/9WX0gGQECo
Suddenly everyone cares about the young girls raped and harmed. I see that as a good thing. I’m glad their plight has been amplified. But the lone voice of Jess Phillips over the last decade is not the one to be attacking right now. She’s a shining example of a great woman
This is Jess Philips.
Do you know who should really be ashamed? @RobertJenrick who was Home Office minister Oct 2022 to Dec 2023 and is capitalising on far right lies.
The Tories for allocating child sex abuse victims £40 each and Elon Musk for being a dangerous ignorant moron.
Survivors of Telford abuse crimes & the mums of two women murdered by boyfriends say of the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips that ‘no one in public life has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests’
https://t.co/idKx2kJN5W
Chris Hope, GB News, "Why don't you order a national inquiry to join the dots between the 50 towns?"
"Are you concerned it might expose failings of your role as director of public prosecutions? And that's why Elon Musk says you were complicit in the rape of Britain"
Keir Starmer, "You were covering crime for The Telegraph when I was director of public prosecutions, you were quizzing me at the time, for the entire five years"
"You looked at my record as I was doing the job. You have access to all of the material"
"Unlike some Tory politicians, I'm not tweeting about it or talking about it, I got on with changing the system"
"The victims suffered terrible abuse, sickening, unspeakable abuse, and then they weren't listened to, that has to be taken seriously. That's why I made the changes that I did in criminal justice"
"On the question on another review, there have been a lot of reviews.. This doesn't need more consultation.. It just needs action"
"Why didn't the last government, the Conservatives, implement the Alexis Jay Inquiry Report requirements?"
"For ten years we've had reviews, did the Conservatives act? No - They're now tweeting and talking about what they think should have been done"