She flew to Ireland a few weeks back, no quarantine or anything like that, for a hook-up with an Irish actor, then flew to London. People kind of just laughed it off at the time and said ‘you go, girl’ and it was mostly jokes about it on social media, which… fair enough, she’s popular and she’s not a Tory minister.
But then she posts that and tells the great unwashed to #stayinside ? That’s just one comment on the post there, but there’s loads. I dunno I can delete it if it doesn’t qualify
I mean I think that’s a wider thing beyond the image. To me @still_he_persisted it’s just a really tone-deaf sort of comment:
“let’s all end this pandemic because I want to go back to my life which was, let me remind you, pretty cool”.
As if we are all here to make sure she has a good time. A lot of us are struggling with Covid and a lot of people have lost their jobs but they aren’t necessarily going to get them back when it lifts either, nor are they maybe going to go back to a much better life.
Weetman was tweeting some guff the other day about how the British left could never tolerate its own AOC. So weird how the sensibles forget that the left wing of the British Labour Party has already produced a talented, intelligent woman of colour and given her key roles at the top… wonder what it is about Diane Abbott that she slips their mind.
(This isn’t to mention many other other talented WoC currently working on the left of the party)