REFERENDUM RESULTS AND DISCUSSION THREAD

[SLA]

Ahhh so it turns out he said 'stupid people' and not 'stupid woman'.

Best talk about that instead then.

I suspect that won't make it into those bastions of feminism the Sun and the Mail. Always sticking up for women's rights, those guys.

 

[Deleted Cyber]

My wife is deaf.

I lip read

He said stupid woman. There is no way he said people.

Say it but dont lie about it!

There are a catalogue of decisions and comments made by May that we have been longing for a leader to call her out as stupid. He could actually have got away with this by evidencing why she is in his opinion stupid. It would still have set off agnst but not as much as lying about it!

 

[Tredman]

Who gives a fuck?

The whole thing is an utter farce, the very definition of those pair of kids is fiddling while Rome burns.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

As a partially deaf lip reader myself - that was definitely woman. People is a totally different mouth shape.

Anyway, let's hope he gets dragged in to apologise and uses that statement to get the last word in by finally launching a proper no confidence vote.

 

[Langers]

Who gives a fuck?

The whole thing is an utter farce, the very definition of those pair of kids is fiddling while Rome burns.

Exactly. It's like a playground.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It's a bit more dangerous than a playground though. People are going to get hurt.

None of those cunts though, obviously. Just the rest of us.

 

[Tredman]

If it all goes catestrophically wrong they might end up like Mussolini. So at least that will be one bright side.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

If we crash out with no deal I would expect monumental amounts of civil unrest.

 

[Stan Hullis]

There won't be civil unrest.

There will be some very unhappy people shouting loudly on the internet but most people will just carry on as normal.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I think you under estimate the level of feeling about this.

 

[Langers]

I don't under estimate how little of a fuck the Tories will give if that happens.

 

[Tredman]

Nearly a million people marched to have a second vote. There will be poll tax riots x 10 if we run out of medicine and phosphoric acid

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't really see anything particularly sexist in Corbyn calling May a stupid woman, seems like a factual statement to me. The denial however is also stupid, the second word clearly begins with a W not a P

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1075403036586139650?s=19

 

[Stan Hullis]

Fuck it, let's hope this keeps going and finally brings down Corbyn...

 

[Tredman]

https://twitter.com/Deaf/status/1075396470352867328?s=19

 

[Tony Towner]

More lip-readers have said he said woman.

 

[Lupo]

Alison Corbyn?

 

[Parkins left foot]

Heard Evelyn Glennnie on the radio today - the drum leader at the London 2012 Olympics - who is deaf & can lip read

Reckoned that he said 'stupid woman'

Then again again Bercow got away with calling Angela Leadsom that (which may well be true) without censure - so it's just the free speech of Parliament

Free speech needs to cover uncomfortable statements otherwise how would Twitter proliferate & continue

 

[Tony Towner]

Surely "stupid woman" is only sexist if the inference is that the gender is the reason for the person being stupid?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Its about parliamentary vs non-parliamentary language.

For me - total storm in a teacup that is sadly detracting from the much more important debate about the intransigence of the stupid woman that is heading the country toward a no-deal Brexit. Which is fucking stupid.