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Danny!
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Emily Thornberry caused a massive row by tweeting this picture. She's been forced to resign and accused of being a snob and out of touch with working people.
What do you think - offensive piece of snobbery? A silly mistake?
Is it foolish for people in the public eye to use Twitter, when one tweet can cause so much damage? (The Queen limited her first tweet to a formal:"It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R").
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Also - is the tweet or picture in itself offensive? Absolutely not. The media decided that because of the person that it came from, it was snobbish, so once again, context is everything.
I quite like the picture, it's a very typical suburban street anywhere in England (APART from in Islington), and reflects a lot of different aspects of our culture and society. What's sad about this is how clearly in a bubble Emily Thornberry and the Labour party as a whole are.
That's a really good point - Nigel Farage could have tweeted exactly the same thing, and it wouldn't have been seen as offensive. So it's about the person, not the tweet.
I think people have a rather rosy image of Islington. It's actually one of the most deprived areas in the country, with the fourth highest child poverty rate in England.
There was an article in the New Statesmen - http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/tweeting-picture-house-not-act-class-warfare-whatever-sun-says - that I think makes a similar point to what I was trying to make but with a much more New Statesman hat on.
God knows what she was implying, she didn't really have time to say before Miliband went into full panic mode and told her she had resigned. I'm surprised he hasn't gone round and apologised to the homeowner in person given the rest of his spineless performance. I'd suggest that Miliband's not the man to stand up to Putin or Assad if it wasn't so obvious and that I don't think he'd even stand to the PM of Isle of Sark.
As an MP she should not be mocking the working class. And to do so on twitter is fucking stupid.