Sunak hits out at Doctor Who star Tennant over criticism of equalities minister
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2024/06/26/sunak-hits-out-at-doctor-who-star-tennant-over-criticism-of-equalities-minister/
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Sunak hits out at Doctor Who star Tennant over criticism of equalities minister
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2024/06/26/sunak-hits-out-at-doctor-who-star-tennant-over-criticism-of-equalities-minister/
Posted by loonongrass
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Sunak isn’t very good at politics…you attack the folk nobody likes. You don’t go after doctors, nurses, lifeboats, David tenant, england football team…these are things people largely like
Sunaks campaign has me on the edge of my seat.
What will his next political masterstroke be?
Maybe he will chase the middle class vote by taking a massive shit in David Attenboroughs coat pocket? Maybe chase the youth vote by rubbing shampoo into the eyes of a kitten on national tv?
The excitement is unbearable.
> I will not shut up. I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls.
>A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end…..(1/2)
Funny how Kemi gets to play identity politics when it suits her.
> Freedom of speech is the most powerful feature of our democracy.
If they want to make this about freedom of speech, that includes the right to tell people to shut up
A group of people sat around and formulated that tweet
My favourite part of this has got to be all the right wing grifters on twitter complaining directly below it about all the times their free speech has been attacked by the Tories.
Can’t even make what should be their devout followers happy.
I’m 100% convinced Sunak has a huge bet locked in on the Tory party being destroyed this election; and now he is doig everything possible to make sure it happens.
He’s bet against himself… or got someone to do it for him so it’s not as easy to discover. There’s no other explanation.
David Tennant makes a pertinent point that it’s a sad state of affairs when we have to recognize people as special for not being a piece of shit, then draws a parallel to the need for a government Equality minister by referencing Badenoch.
Sunak and Badenoch then try to frame Tennant as attacking her for being both black and a woman and completely ignore his point.
That’s some Olympics level deflection they went for there.
Ah The good doctor doesn’t believe in division and dehumanising language meanwhile in the Tory party ….
>Kemi Badenoch:
>”Do not let the bigots and bullies win”
Yes, Kemi, we completely agree, that’s why nobody is voting Tory. Because you’re the bigots and bullies. Everyone else sees this as obvious, but I state it for clarity because you don’t seem to be self-aware enough.
Nobody’s covered in glory here. I like David Tennant a lot, but it’s fair to say he occupies that liberal, metropolitan, luxury belief cliché that, whilst overused, has some truth to it. He didn’t need to direct his support for the trans community as an attack on an individual, especially when, like it or not, plenty of people agree with Kemi Badenoch and it’s not the settled issue, or even necessarily the moral imperative, he believes it to be.
But then she responds along the identity-based lines she is usually critical of. She could have told him to fuck off, or words to that effect, but the likelihood of David Tennant criticising her because she’s black and a woman is low. She’s actually made herself look hypocritical and foolish, fed into the pernicious notion that criticism of a belief is criticism of someone’s inherent characteristics.
And Sunak should surely have better things to do.
Who the fuck is advising him. You want to take on Doctor Who now? Pensioners like him.
I made a jokey comment last month along the lines of, “what’s Rishi going to do next? Beat up Stephen Fry with the corpse of Paul o’Grady?”
I got pretty close, huh?
And Sunak tried to frame it as Tennant wanting her to sit up because she’s a woman, not because of what she’s saying. When anyone can see Tennant was saying he shouldn’t be applauded for saying people should be able to be who they are.
How is Sunak so bad at this?
You will not get voters (especially younger voters) on your side by slating national treasure, David Tennant.
David’s always been very outspoken about LGBT+ rights. One of his kids is nonbinary and nowadays he does a lot of interviews while wearing nonbinary pins. He was also at pride last weekend with his family.
Not Doctor Who. You don’t attack Doctor Who. Especially not the white male ones. Sure the scum at the Daily Mail has a pop at the black one, the girl one and the black girl one but even they know they are treading a very sketchy path.
Good on sunak.My opinion of David Tennent has really gone down .How can this seemingly intelligent person hold such stupid opinions
yeah because if there is someone who is universally hated by the nation its David Tennent. Im sure this will go well for Sunak.
Seriously I dont need anymore reasons to not Vote Tory, but going after David Tennent, only means ill not voted for them harder
>Sunak hits out
And hits the beach in six months in California with his green card. Who cares what some over privileged tory thinks with his future in America.
Why do the anti-trans crowd constantly yap on about the “safety” of women and girls so much? Not being funny, but if someone is inclined to hurt or assault a woman, they’re gonna do it regardless, as horrifying as that thought is.
They’re not going to go through the rigmarole of legally changing their gender just so they can go in a woman’s bathroom and cop a feel. It’s nothing to do with safety, that’s a total null argument. It’s entirely to do with bigotry and discrimination, plain and simple.
I’m convinced sunak knows he’s fucked, so he’s just jumping on every banana peel he can find
People like David Tennant. Rishi Sunak isn’t even liked or wanted by his own party. He lost to LIZ FUCKING TRUSS.
And just like that, Sunak is now a doctor who villain on top of everything else.
” People like Daleks don’t they squire? Maybe I should try to be more like them”
I vaguely recall a time when politicians didn’t comment on twitter every single time someone said something they disagreed with.
A culture war is pointless. The people in power want us to bicker about these things and ignore what they’re doing with taxpayer’s money.
This is idiotic from Sunak, and I disagree with almost everything Badenoch has to say. That said, David Tennant was out of order for saying he wished she “didn’t exist”. It wouldn’t be so unreasonable to see that as incitement to violence.
When it was reported Frank Heater said Dianne Abbott should be shot and makes him want to hate all black women, Kemi Badenoch said “we need to get to a place where we stop chasing people around and looking everywhere for the racism” and “He wasn’t talking to Diane Abbott. It wasn’t even really about Diane Abbott.” and “I don’t want a prime minister who is just going to be lurching out, making comments every five minutes in response to the media.”
Compare and contrast with her reaction to being told to “shut up” by a non-tory donor.
It’s a shame she made her race, gender and job title a factor of being a victim whilst using his race, gender and job title to dismiss his opinion.
Pick a lane.
David Tennant has handled this badly. Hardly surprising though, he’s panicking a bit as the tide of public opinion is turning against the transing of vulnerable children, like he’s doing, and many people basically think it’s tantamount to child abuse.
Is it bad i originally read this as “Sutekh hits out at Doctor Who”?
Richy decided today’s bullet to the foot was going to be “attacking” David T?
Not much of that foot left is there Rich……….
The Doc better watch out that Sunak doesn’t steal his TARDIS.
Is free speech exclusively for Right Wingers or am I missing something?
It will be hard for some people to choose sides between Doctor Who and the Conservative Party.
Whilst one side is an entity with an affection, respect, and care for the British people that spans several lifetimes, we need to be grown up about it and admit that this high regard for us is unfortunately entirely fictional.
And then on the other side we’ve got Doctor Who, someone who can be brought out of a coma by the words, “Help me!” and have his powers restored by the aroma of a spilt flask of tea.
Saying effectively that the world would be a better place if Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore, and then bizarrely saying he doesn’t wish her ill when he just did exactly that, makes Tennant look like an idiot and a wanker. It’s so dangerous for actors to believe their opinions are worth listening to – their egos are big enough as it is.