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Therese Coffey Health Secretary your time is up

would you employ a lawyer who turned up to court in a tracksuit? I doubt it, no matter how great a grasp they had.
I regularly check with at least two people who variously turn up in trackie bottoms or sporting a quite fabulous leopard-print coat paired with DMs and chains about stuff to do with protest law. Because they're very good at it. There's also a crust punk I know whose knowledge of squatting rights is impeccable. By contrast I know of quite a lot of people who've been done up like a kipper because of lazy, suited, lawyers.
 
You are well aware that no-one is "pretending obesity is okay" here, so why are you pretending this is the case? This is about whether someone can be overweight and do their job. Which manifestly, as Health Secretary is a decision-making role based on data and policy rather than a promo gig for couch-to-5K, you can be. Not that she will, because she's a rabid ideologue with zero background in the field amid a party political meltdown – but that's the thing worth criticising rather than vapid shit about what she chooses to eat of an evening.
I didn't actually say she couldn't do her job, did I? I called her a fat cunt, based on having seen her in a restaurant.
 
I regularly check with at least two people I know who variously turn up in trackie bottoms or sporting a quite fabulous leopard-print coat paired with DMs and chains about stuff to do with protest law. Because they're very good at it.
That's very much not appearing on your behalf in a courtroom, which was what I said. Being friends with a couple of protesters is neither here nor there.
 
not 'loads' from what i can find, but the register of members interests lists a few freebies (some years ago now) from gallaher ltd, weybridge, who were in the tobacco business.

dunno if arguing about whether one tory is more of a twunt than another tory is a worthwhile exercise, to be honest...
Yes, I think that's fair, but with one proviso. This is a thread about her specifically, and in my case it was me who saw her, and me who hoped her health might fail her before she can fail other people's - and I stand by that.
 
I didn't actually say she couldn't do her job, did I?

I do think presentation counts for quite a lot
Make up your mind.

Not that this matters particularly, because as noted above, what is being asked of you here is not that you try to change the balance of social norms in which a large mass of people who think presentation matters regularly vote for the worst kinds of scumbags, but to raise the bar ever so slightly when you're on urban. It's not like said bar is terribly high ffs.
 
You were on about unfit people being shit health secretaries and fit ones being better. Your assertions falls at the first hurdle
But I wasn't was I?
More straw man arguments or is it that you can't read?
Your use of words is deplorable!!
What do mean by 'unfit' - do you understand the word 'fit' (clue: "key fits into the lock")

The same goes for the word "healthy", in case you are tempted to use it.

We are talking about people put into postitions of responsibility where their very public lifestyle shouldn't contradict their responsibilities.

Thus a minister of justice who lies and has income from illicit earnings, isn't setting a good example for any law and order attitudes s/he is supposed to encourage.
 
You are trolling.and you're l
Afraid that particular member has a reputation on other forums. I was sorry to see she'd joined Urban.
You are trolling, and if in relation to me, you are lying.

I joined a soap forum (one, singular, not plural) during Covid, where a set of vicious right wing, openly racist, misogynist, thick bastards set about me, made horrific references to me and my family, and followed me around every other thread I entered - the same handful of arseholes each time, that I couldn't shake off, despite begging them to leave me alone - as I now have to do with you evidently, while you insinuate yourself into conflict with this trail of bullshit.
 
But I wasn't was I?
More straw man arguments or is it that you can't read?
Your use of words is deplorable!!
What do mean by 'unfit' - do you understand the word 'fit' (clue: "key fits into the lock")

The same goes for the word "healthy", in case you are tempted to use it.

We are talking about people put into postitions of responsibility where their very public lifestyle shouldn't contradict their responsibilities.

Thus a minister of justice who lies and has income from illicit earnings, isn't setting a good example for any law and order attitudes s/he is supposed to encourage.
If you think a single Health Minister in the last 100 years has been perfectly health-conscious and never gotten blitzed at a work do you're delusional. I mean ffs stand outside a hospital and count the smoking doctors once in a while. Ministers do a job, they're not pin-ups and only people who already hate them try to impose such ideas.
 
If you think a single Health Minister in the last 100 years has been perfectly health-conscious and never gotten blitzed at a work do you're delusional. I mean ffs stand outside a hospital and count the smoking doctors once in a while.
We are not talking about health workers.
We are talking about a public figure; meaning that being in the limelight and setting an image is part of the job.
 
Make up your mind.

Not that this matters particularly, because as noted above, what is being asked of you here is not that you try to change the balance of social norms in which a large mass of people who think presentation matters regularly vote for the worst kinds of scumbags, but to raise the bar ever so slightly when you're on urban. It's not like said bar is terribly high ffs.
I think it matters, in a professional context - and I've never voted for scumbags. I haven't contradicted myself. I'm not responsible for how and why others vote.
 
But I wasn't was I?
More straw man arguments or is it that you can't read?
Your use of words is deplorable!!
What do mean by 'unfit' - do you understand the word 'fit' (clue: "key fits into the lock")

The same goes for the word "healthy", in case you are tempted to use it.

We are talking about people put into postitions of responsibility where their very public lifestyle shouldn't contradict their responsibilities.

Thus a minister of justice who lies and has income from illicit earnings, isn't setting a good example for any law and order attitudes s/he is supposed to encourage.
Jesus Mary and Joseph I thought you had a couple of brain cells to rub together. You clearly said fit people make better health secretaries. The corollary of this is unfit people make worse health secretaries. Indeed you've been explicit about this in the case of therese coffey. You used the word fit, I used unfit in response. Do you need every single step signposted for you?
 
Don't like the fat shaming turn this thread has taken. and I do not like the way women get an unfair amount of focus on their appearance.

More Tory shaming please, more focus on the terrible shit coming out of Coffey's mouth and department please.

edited to add: quit with the cross thread beefs people!
 
We are not talking about health workers.
We are talking about a public figure; meaning that being in the limelight and setting an image is part of the job.
Is it? Find me the clause in the Health Ministry job description which says "oh and by the way you'll need to go on a diet and start jogging to work." The only actual criteria is "did you get elected as an MP" and "does the PM want you to do this," followed by "have you managed to seem competent enough to help your team win." None of this is weight-related, except in the minds of people looking for some mud to sling. And you are not her constituency.
 
Well, in philosophical terms quite possibly. In terms of right wing bastards who reliably inflict the maximum human misery on others, never.
I think you're setting the bar for scumbags rather high, your def here might include Hitler but exclude mussolini, Franco, petain, mosley, tyndall, Blair, Cameron, may, Johnson, truss, Patel, bravermann: and therese coffey
 
Don't like the fat shaming turn this thread has taken. and I do not like the way women get an unfair amount of focus on their appearance.

More Tory shaming please, more focus on the terrible shit coming out of Coffey's mouth and department please.

edited to add: quit with the cross thread beefs people!
Fair enough, that may be my fault - I carelessly clouded the main issue by being bitchy in a flippant way, which is what I'm like in private rather than professional contexts. I'm sitting in my own living room, and so to me this is private - it's like being on the phone, so I type as I speak, but I should've kept in mind that this is public and that people are strangers to each other, who don't know people's character or motives or mood.

I'm not going to change my mind, or describe her differently, and I'd be as scathing about a man.
 
I think you're setting the bar for scumbags rather high, your def here might include Hitler but exclude mussolini, Franco, petain, mosley, tyndall, Blair, Cameron, may, Johnson, truss, Patel, bravermann: and therese coffey
No, it includes all of those you mentioned. Very much including Coffey. I'm uncomfortable with her in all respects.
 
It includes everyone I've mentioned because you don't like them rather than them fitting your definition. You're all over the shop on this one.
I'm sorry, that statement doesn't make sense. I'm not. It doesn't ultimately matter, but no, I'm not all over the shop. I haven't contradicted myself, I've explained where I'm coming from. Others might've found it too bitchy and that's fine (although some of what followed has been way more than bitchy) but that doesn't make it all over the shop. I thought you were making a philosophical retort - if you weren't, that's my mistake, but it still isn't my inconsistency.
 
Fair enough, that may be my fault - I carelessly clouded the main issue by being bitchy in a flippant way, which is what I'm like in private rather than professional contexts. I'm sitting in my own living room, and so to me this is private - it's like being on the phone, so I type as I speak, but I should've kept in mind that this is public and that people are strangers to each other, who don't know people's character or motives or mood.

I'm not going to change my mind, or describe her differently, and I'd be as scathing about a man.
I like to think of U75 as a bit like what we used to call consciousness raising. If you say something sexist, racist or daily mail-ish you will be challenged to think again.
 
Show me the Health Ministry job description
Here you go.

I can't help you if you want to ignore the realities of politics.
Seems to me that you're ignoring the realities of politics. Theresa Coffey is where she is because she appeals to her electorate. They don't care if she's fat, and probably enjoy that she smokes cigars and is a bit of a lout in that photo, as long as she delivers what they want. And because she's a Tory she's spared the sort of shit that the Sun and Daily Mail might aim at a Labourite. It's only people like you, who already don't like her, who are going to bother harping on about her weight and to (not just) her supporters that'll just make you sound like a twat. To doctors, meanwhile, the thing they'll care about is what she's doing re: policy. If they don't like those policies then maybe some of their number will end up mentioning her weight on Twitter, but spokespeople know that sort of shit plays badly in public these days so I doubt it'll come from anyone with any influence. That's the "realities of politics."
 
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