Angela Eagle: Mad As A Lorry

Pink News.

Eagle is clearly quite mad and apppears to have a persecution complex and vanity of Tatchellesque proportions.

Angela Eagle: Untrue

Angela Eagle homophobia claims ‘completely untrue’

The out Labour MP had allegedly faced ‘harassment’ and ‘intimidation’ from Jeremy Corbyn supporters.

Several members of Angela Eagle’s constituency party have hit back at claims of homophobia made last week.
 
Speaking on Daily Politics [July 5th], Baroness Tessa Jowell said members of Labour’s Parliamentary Party had been subjected to “intimidation, abuse and fear” in the wake of a recent vote of no confidence in Mr Corbyn. *

She also claimed that Ms Eagle had suffered anti-gay abuse from members of the pro-Corbyn group Momentum at a constituency meeting in Wallasey.

“I spoke to Angela about her meeting,” Baroness Jowell said. “She faced homophobic abuse at that meeting.”

However, several of those who attended the meeting have refuted the accusation – claiming that Ms Eagle was not even at the meeting in question.

Kathy Runswick – Chair of the Wallasey Constituency – told Pink News that the allegation was “completely untrue”.

“Angela Eagle was not at the Wallasey Labour Party AGM and thus could not have ‘faced homophobic abuse’,” she added....

Ms Runswick also claimed that “when the meeting took place, Angela was still in the Shadow Cabinet, and was apparently fully supportive of Jeremy Corbyn..."

Pink News.

* I think only Pink News published this fiction - but in quote marks and with an 'allegedly'.

Whatever, this episode shows how Corbyn is clearly being smeared to buggery.

PS I'm sure Eagle does get a lot of homophobic abuse, I just doubt it's coming from supporters of Corbyn.

Angela Eagle: Is Evil

Supported the Iraq War, tuition fees, the smoking ban, bombing Syria, renewing Trident and cuts to working tax credits etc etc.

Just look at her evil dead-eyed death stare.

Wonderfully uncritical reports in the gay media as - whooh! - she is a lesbian (and lgbt politicians are always so great).

The Guardian: When Nigel Met Rhona

Saturday's Guardian gave over their The Conversation head-to-head discussion thingy to Rhona Cameron and Nigel Evans MP talking about "how far gay equality has really come".
Evans is described as "Tory MP and deputy speaker, who came out in December."
The Guardian doesn't explain why he waited until December to come out - it's rumoured that he wants to be Speaker of the House, and so realised he had to come out/clean, or risk being outed under the media spotlight.
How very noble.
Mr Evans is a rather strange choice - he is a rather new convert to the cause of gay equality.
He was first elected as an MP in 1992, but his voting record on equality legislation on Publicwhip.org shows he only began supporting lesbian and gay equality in 2003.
He has voted against equalising the age of consent and abolishing Section 28, and abstained on votes on such key legislation as civil partnerships and gay adoption.
Oops!
Fagburn is a big fan of Rhona Cameron, but it might have been a better idea to have Nigel Evans debating with an MP who is Labour, a lesbian, and has always been out.
Ooh, I don't know... Angela Eagle, say.
Particularly as Eagle was in the news just the other week after being subjected to David Cameron's sexist bullying Bullingdon boy "Calm down dear!" putdown in the House - and would have much to say about how the Tories liberal rhetoric is rarely matched by the reality.
The conversation touched on many things - out MPs, how the Conservative party has changed, sports players, Section 28, the B&B ban, the gay blood ban, anti-gay violence, homophobic bullying, education... - but didn't allow for any real discussion about any of them.
Still, nice to see Nigel Evans is the only gay man in Britain who still calls gay men "gays".
And good to see The The Guardian thinks Gay Times is called "The Gay Times".
Rhona and Nigel began by talking "about reports this week that kissing between same-sex couples on television could be banned before the watershed following a review."
Fagburn believes this is the first time this laughably false Daily Mail-manufactured story has been mentioned in a grown-up newspaper.

Rhona Cameron: I know the review is about any sexual scenes before the watershed, but when it gets this "gay" focus in reports, it's very worrying.

Nigel Evans: It's sad that it was portrayed in that way. I don't think David Cameron would agree to only banning gay kissing before 9pm, but not heterosexual kissing. On equality legislation alone, it would simply not happen.

I'm loathe to agree with a Tory MP - or, worse, to defend a Tory PM - but I wish this could be the end of the utter, utter fiction that "Cameron wants to ban gay TV kisses".

New Shadow Cabinet: "Overwhelmingly Straight"

In the Torygraph today, old Tory toady Toby "Toady" Young notes - with just the slightest hint of irony; 'The new Shadow Cabinet: overwhelmingly white, privileged and heterosexual'
"Sexual diversity? Admittedly, Labour scores a single point here – Angela Eagle is a lesbian – but no homosexual men were elected. Indeed, two of the Party’s most prominent homosexuals – Chris Bryant and Ben Bradshaw – were both surprise losers.
"So much for the party of inclusion. If you’re a gay man or a man or woman of African-Caribbean origin there’s no room for you at the top of the modern Labour Party. On the contrary, your best bet of getting ahead is if you’re a white heterosexual who was privately educated and went on to study PPE at Oxford."
The little minx!