UK Conservative MP suspended for dropping N word

[mikeymikec]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40555639

A Conservative MP has been suspended from the party after it emerged she used a racist expression during a public discussion about Brexit.

Anne Marie Morris, the MP for Newton Abbott, used the phrase at an event in London to describe the prospect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

She told the BBC: "The comment was totally unintentional. I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused."

The Conservative Party later confirmed she had had the whip withdrawn.

Announcing the suspension, Theresa May said she was "shocked" by the "completely unacceptable" language.

Completely unintentional? How do you use an expression in a technically correct (ie. the way it was intended) way unintentionally?
The mind boggles.

 

[sdifox]

Wow

 

[sdifox]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40555639



Completely unintentional? How do you use an expression in a technically correct (ie. the way it was intended) way unintentionally?
The mind boggles.

Unintentionally caught?

 

[UNCjigga]

Sounds like she belongs to that antiquated class of racism along with Edgar Rice Burroughs or Margaret Mitchell. How quaint.

 

[pmv]

Seems she used a particular antiquated (and racist) expression. Not quite in the same category as using the word _at_ someone, but still revealing something interesting all the same. I've only ever heard someone use that expression once in my life, and that was also an upper-class woman (who somehow didn't seem to understand why everyone was shocked). What kind of strange social bubble would you have to live within to go all this time with that phrase still in your rhetorical tool belt?
(And, 'the Tory Party', isn't _quite_ a sufficient answer).

 

[HomerJS]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40555639



Completely unintentional? How do you use an expression in a technically correct (ie. the way it was intended) way unintentionally?
The mind boggles.

Its called Trump standards. alt-morals. alt-truth, alt-facts

 

[justoh]

Now we get to the real n* in the woodpile, which is in two years what happens if there is no deal

So kind of an elephant in the room kind of thing? Does that make me elephantist? Never heard of that before, and I'll definitely repeat it at some point if I get to refer to some urgent but heretofore unstated shit that needs taking care of, for the novelty/lols, which would make me racist, according to idiots.

 

[agent00f]

So kind of an elephant in the room kind of thing? Does that make me elephantist? Never heard of that before, and I'll definitely repeat it at some point if I get to refer to some urgent but heretofore unstated shit that needs taking care of, for the novelty/lols, which would make me racist, according to idiots.

No, supporting racists just makes you a friend to racists, though in this case there's inculpatory evidence you're not in the friendzone.

 

[mikeymikec]

No, supporting racists just makes you a friend to racists, though in this case there's inculpatory evidence you're not in the friendzone.

Ignore the troll.

 

[agent00f]

Ignore the troll.

Killing trolls is even better.