Shouldn't he be too busy.......
Shagging someone else's wife orrunning away from his multitudinous mistakes or
be getting stabbed in the back by Gove and the Shakespearean witch Sarah Vine or
cycling to his barbers....
to continue to pontificate any view on Brexit
Not too late to change PM's deal - Johnson
The man's a born coward. Was there any need to call Sarah Vine a witch? She's quite happy to use the term in relation to others
Sarah Vine on the 'hysterical Westminster witch hunt' | Daily Mail Online
and I find it incredibly easy visualising her near a large pot chanting
"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good." I suspect many in the party believe May will fall after her deal passes/fails in the days and weeks ahead. Boris is just lining himself up for the upcoming contest. She didn’t in the article you linked. But thanks for trying. She's a public figure that makes public comments on character of others.
That in itself is should be enough to open her up to receiving the same.
However, she has also been known to go well beyond polite or reasonable judgements on others and in fact make incredibly acerbic and vitriolic comments regarding others character, their sexuality and relationship status using words like "revolting".
That I believe puts her fairly and squarely in the 'fair game' category for insults directed at her. Neither Johnson or Gove were introduced in the post preceded by an insult. It was misogynistic. The article is titled:-
SARAH VINE: If this hysterical Westminster witch hunt is what a world run by women looks like, count me out
As it's an opinion piece she would have written the headline herself.
She then goes on to draw parallels between Leadsom commenting on the inappropriate behaviour of individuals with McCarthyism and the play The Crucible.
Is your inability to see that as accusing people of being witches really so hardily ingrained?
Also your characterisation that it was misogynistic is really quite funny it's so inappropriate, now if you'd perhaps been clever and used a portmanteau such as vineogynistic, that would have certainly applied. I'd never heard of her directly before but having now read the article she wrote linked above, I struggle to see how calling her a name is any worse than how she described people raising claims/concerns of inappropriate sexual behaviour at work.According to that article she appears to be blaming the victims and excusing those accused due to them being over 40 and socially awkward.
"Words like ‘handsy’ and ‘inappropriate’ seem to make up the bulk of the accusations — terms that can mean almost anything but, in reality, prove nothing.
If someone is upset and an MP puts a reassuring arm around her shoulder, is that inappropriate? If they make a clumsy joke, is that an ‘unwanted advance’? Knowing MPs as I do, many of them are so socially inept, they make asking for a cup of coffee sound deeply suspicious. But just because someone is a bit odd, does that make them a pervert? No.
Or perhaps that depends on your point of view. Because there is a strong cultural and generational element to this, too. Most of the accused are over 40; most of the accusers are in their 20s.
In other words, it’s the revenge of the millennials, many of whom will have had their senses of humour surgically removed at university. Theirs is a generation that seems permanently aggrieved, in a perpetual state of disgust at anyone over the age of 30.
They can’t take a joke, let alone dictation — so is it any wonder they can’t handle the pace at Westminster or the rough and tumble of parliamentary banter. "
Edit: The bulk of the article is focusing on the idea that women should be tougher and stand up for themselves at the time rather than raising issues afterwards.A valid idea in many ways and suggests that calling her a witch probably shouldn't be an issue for her as it's just a word. So can anyone point out where she called someone a name directly or are we going to go around in circles?
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