Mr. Corbyn said the culture of staff enjoying drinks after work “benefits men who don’t feel the need to be at home looking after their children and it discriminates against women who will want to, obviously, look after the children that they have got”.
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Otherwise she might have considered the victim-blaming angle of trying to hold Corbyn “personally responsible” for the spate of threats and abuse against MPs.
A Jewish member of the British Parliament is receiving police protection following an antisemitic death threat made against her on a social media platform, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Friday.
Clive Betts said it was “absolutely ridiculous” to suggest his motion was part of a plot against Jeremy Corbyn.
Instead of looking at the real causes of the toxified political environment (stuff like hatemongering front page headline lies in the S*n, the constant xenophobia of the Express, the Britain First hate-fest.) Smeeth has chose to weaponise a disgusting Facebook rant about her to attack Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour: Corbyn said it discriminates against women.
She said the threat to hang her had been passed to counter-terrorism police some weeks ago, saying it was “one of the worst” messages she had received although “not *the* worst”.
He said: “I think we have got to be honest. there is clearly a rising tide of hate speak and hate crime of all sorts and homophobia and biphobia and transphobia are all featured in there, and it is clear there are rising incidents”.
Jeremy Corbyn is fighting Owen Smith for the Labour leadership..
She wrote on Twitter about the reaction to the threats: “Huge thanks for the solidarity and supportive messages”.
“Jeremy condemns all abuse, and no one responsible for it is a genuine supporter of Jeremy’s”.
“You would have to go back 25 years to the fight against the poll tax to recall a political meeting of this size and enthusiasm in Ellesmere Port”.
“This is why Jeremy launched “Respect and Unity”, a code of conduct calling on all Labour members and supporters to conduct themselves with a high standard of behavior”.
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The Labour Party has been plunged into turmoil in recent months, marred by mass resignations from the shadow cabinet and accusations of anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexist abuse.
