Stab Proof Vests...

[snorky]

Whys does everyone seem to be trying to derial this thread about our crap wasteful slimy MP into some kind of sexist sneering agenda ?

I dont care if shes a woman. I dont care about the size of her arse - and to be honest, when i said fat arse, it sounded better than bony arse when you are having a rant. I could have said spotty arse - I really dont know whether her arse is big or small, spotty or unblemished - and I dont care.

I bet she wears glasses for reading, so Im going to revise my tirade to the following :

"I would so like to kick her up her ambitious fat arse AND knock her stupid pinz-nez off her sweaty moon like face"

does that make me anti Spectacle wearers ?

or does it make me anti sweaty moon faces ? I bet Pete Docherty is shitting himself now

bah

[Alan Dale]

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[????]

Try applying that to Nye Bevin, Oscar Wilde, Wisnton Churchill, That Norweigan commentator or..mohammed Al Fayed....er, well maybe not him but you get my gist

[Rach]

Back to the subject.....

I'm really annoyed with her - an MP for how long and she doesn't know what kind of message she's sending out if she appears wearing a stab-proof vest in her own constituency? Peckham has had such bad press and whilst it can and has been a rough area (along with many other places in London) on the whole it's a good place to be and I feel it's slowly getting better. However, with stunts like that it will never shake of it's 'rough' tag.

[Rach]

PS. Does she actually live around here? Someone mentioned North London?

[SteveT]

She lives next to a field of gypsies in hertfordshire but we all know that gyppo's are not particular.;-)

[Michael Palaeologus]

Makes a grab for stab vest, kevlar helmet and dives under the table ....

She could be said to be naive for wearing body armour in her own constituency, but she also accepted questionable money for her Deputy PM campaign.

When does naive stop?

[SeanMacGabhann]

nah - it's Tessa who lives in North London

Harriet does live somewhere round here

I genuinely don't like her, but think this is all stuff and nothing - Mike Paeleologous has hit the head with the questionable donations.

Next time the Pope drives around behind 3 foot of plexiglass in some city, have a word about faith and naivet? then - but this just seems a hasty little mistake

[????]

I dunno for sure but most Labour MPS don't

- Live anywhere near their 'working class' constituents

- send their kids to any even vaguely dodgy schools inner city schools

I ain't a big fan of the tories but at least they don't try and impose 'equality' on everyone else except themselves and their families.....'socialists' in huge hypocracy shocker...vermin, to turn Bevin's description of the Tories back on New Labour

[????]

A pope's been shot......can't remember when that last happened to a Labour MP......

[????]

....unfortunately

*er, joke

[bignumber5]

When I worked at King's A&E there was discussion about whether or not the triage nurses needed stab vests, after a number of fights and incidents in the waiting room in which the triage nurse was either the target or got caught in the cross-fire (metaphorical, no waiting room shootings...). Was abandoned as unnecessary, but highlights that public work in the Camberwell/Peckham area can be dangerous: the officers that HH was with were wearing stab vests, so she did. I don't blame her, and I'd have done the same. I think the hairnet/hardhat arguements are very reasonable: the answer to John Humphrey's question about needing a stab vest should be "Normal people don't, but the Police force do, and I was on a walk-around with the Police, you muppet!"

[????]

So by your logic bignumber, next time I have to go to A&E I should be given a stabvest....yeah, sounds right

[snoozequeen1]

Just as a matter of interest, I wondered if any of this person's constituents has ever got her to express an opinion on anything?

I have written to her via email about three issues recently. The first two emails through the website, theyworkforyou.com, which keeps and publishes records of which MPs can't be bothered to reply to their own voters, and the third went through the website of a campaign group.

She replied to the first email saying that she would pass on my comments to her colleagues, but there was no sign of her own opinion (which is what I had asked for). She replied to the second with an email just acknowledging receipt, nothing else. She hasn't bothered to reply to the third one at all.

If you meet her face to face - if anyone ever does meet her outside a photo opportunity, or press conference - does she just give one of those sickly patronising smiles and say nothing?

Is there any other job you could get, apart from Member of Parliament, if you just sat there in the job interview and failed to answer every question?

[????]

An ex-of mine worked with someone who knew her well...."vacuouus"...apparently, and I ain't seen much to contradict that. Incapable of having an opinion without reference to an 'opinion' manual, professional politician, way out of her depth......sounds a bit like Gordon Brown really......

[????]

Member of Parliament interview...

Have you any work experience outside of the backstabbing, political struggle that is becoming an MP? Answer no

Have you any intention of putting yourself and your family through the services that you think everyone else should use? No

Are you willing to put your expenses and other financial interests to scrutiny in the way that any other employee would have to do? NO

Have you any intention of answering any question in a straightforward way? NO

Will you accept any blame fot what goes wrong in the way that you willingly accept credit for what goes right? NO

Excellent, let's have you running the country

[SimonM]

The Dromeys lived (amd may still live) in Stradella Road in Herne Hill for many years.

[She'llsurvive]

Sounds about right, near enough but a world away

[spadetownboy]

i think you,ll find the reason she was wearing the vest was that the police told her to wear it, unfortunately like everything in the world these days the walkabout would have been risk assessed by the police and an action plan developed and the wearing of the vest would have been as a consequence of that. its a bit unfortunate that the walkabout took part in an area of london which has a reputation for violent crime and yes it dosent send out a very positive message, but i wonder if we would be making the same fuss if the walkabout had happened in a more upmarket part of town that dosent have the reputation of camberwell/peckham, i somehow doubt it.

[mockney piers]

Basically this government has been all about image and spin, so by any measure this was, as an earlier poster said, an own goal, regardless of the facts of the case. Since when have New Labour been into facts (WMD anyone)?!

Anyone looking for another own goal (or not as was the case) should read the first story in today's Private Eye about the photo-op that wasn't, between Brown and Sarkozy at the Emirates. Classic!

[Alan Dale]

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[AllforNun]

I think she is great, I spoke to her a while ago at her surgery about the influx of these bumpkins from the middle classes living their media class lives and creating these liberalised enclaves, and using my taxes to do it, for people who were signing up in droves to spread the word of this new found faith. She agreed with me and said something had to be done to scare these buggers off. So she came up with this vest idea to freak out anyone thinking of trying to get a mortgage south of the Old Kent Rd while at the same time using her influence within the treasury to cut of the supply of mortgages to first time buyers. She said she had modelled it on the 'Chicken out campaign' and was going to start putting the squeeze on supplies of glass chandeliers and rubberised kitchen utensils. This would soon be followed by a new law that would ensure that any proposed Folk nights are shut down before they open and anyone caught discussing such gatherings would be marked with the sign of a whelk and taken in for questioning. I left and headed to the Thomas A beckett for 3 6 minute rounds, a pint and some fresh snout only to discover that it had been turned into a freeking art gallery !

[Asset]

OMG - I've got a rubberised kithcen utensil!

[citizenED]

The police probably made her fill out a Risk Assessment assessmest form.

Risk: crossing the road. Action: look both ways consequence: not being run over

Risk: fashion faux pas Action: consult Trinny and Suzannah Consequence: avoiding mockery in press

Risk: assault. Action: wear a stab vest Consequence: appease poloiceman but get lambasted in the press

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Don't worry Allfornun, I think The Ring at Blackfriars is still open for business.