Behold the exquisite hypocrisy of the Labour MP Dawn Butler. This is a politician who has raised the alarm over the verbal abuse received by female MPs. And yet now she’s gleefully telling anyone who will listen that she agrees with the preening luvvie David Tennant who said Kemi Badenoch should ‘shut up’ and, better still, disappear off the face of the Earth entirely. So sexist barbs are fine if they’re aimed at Tory ladies, Dawn?
Is it acceptable again for men to tell women to pipe down?
Yes, Ms Butler, the MP for Brent Central, has weighed in with her usual tact to the Tennant-Badenoch showdown. It was at the LGBT Awards last Friday that Tennant took aim at Badenoch. As he accepted his gong for best ‘celebrity ally’ to the LGBT community, the former Dr Who said he was looking forward to a time when ‘we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore’.
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