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14-09-2019, 06:17 PM | #1 | ||
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A Brexit Party candidate who wants to take Jeremy Corbyn’s seat was today accused of discriminating against people with learning disabilities after he used a series of offensive terms targeting disabled people.
James Heartfield, a historian and writer, told one opponent in an online debate about business in February: “This is such a retarded argument that you are now forever fixed in my mind as a drooling, ****-witted sack of sh**.” Mr Heartfield was unveiled as a candidate for the Islington North seat as Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage gears up for a general election. Ciara Lawrence, who has a learning disability and works for the charity Mencap, said: “No one should be using this disgusting and harmful language in our society, especially not someone who wants to stand for election to become a Member of Parliament and represent people, including people with a learning disability.” In another Twitter spat about the European Union, in December 2018, Mr Heartfield told someone: “Ok — well **** off then, you spastic ***t.” He used the word “******” to insult people in at least five conversations. Evening Standard He is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Last edited by Twosugars; 14-09-2019 at 06:19 PM. |
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14-09-2019, 06:21 PM | #2 | |||
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Corbyn will win his seat.
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14-09-2019, 06:22 PM | #3 | ||
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14-09-2019, 07:25 PM | #4 | |||
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Likes cars that go boom
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And we're meant to believe this is an academic? Where did he get his degree the back of a cig packet?
And he thinks he's going to take Corbyns seat?
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14-09-2019, 07:47 PM | #5 | ||
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Corbyn has nothing to worry about from him.
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15-09-2019, 12:35 AM | #6 | ||
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This is the kind of person that the Brexit party are putting forth as candidates? Grim. Thankfully, he'll be decimated when it comes to the vote. I imagine there will be more controversies surrounding the Brexit candidates going forward given that the party is an (even more) extreme version of UKIP.
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15-09-2019, 05:57 AM | #7 | |||
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Quand il pleut, il pleut
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...(..just looking at his wiki...)...it says that he was a Great British Bake Off contestant in 2016 and he left after a disappointing Viennese Whirl...the shame of it, how can such a person be a representative of anything we hold sacred...anyways, I don’t recall him at all from the show, so I’m not sure that’s true...a false wiki as well as a false Viennese Whirl, what in the world...oh dear...
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