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Journalist, author, feminist, geek, genderpunk. Contributing Editor, @Newstatesman. Latest book: 'Unspeakable Things', Bloomsbury.

Joined January 2009
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    Laurie Penny Verified account ‏@PennyRed 9 May 2015

    No, what's disgusting is that some people are more worried about a war memorial than the destruction of the welfare state.

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    1. Jennifer Williams ‏@JenWilliamsMEN 9 May 2015 Ramsbottom, England

      .@PennyRed it's not an either/or. And however noble a cause, it does not justify an offensive (and in this case self defeating) act.

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    2. Rory Sutherland ‏@rorysutherland 9 May 2015 South East, England

      @PennyRed Sorry, if you act as though there are no context markers in life - ie that everything is political - you will deservedly lose.

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      1. Martin McGrath ‏@martinmcgrath 9 May 2015

        @PennyRed And scrawling on the memorial to those women helps the welfare state how, exactly?

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      3. Skiamakhos ‏@skiamakhos 9 May 2015 Birmingham, England

        @martinmcgrath @PennyRed frankly it's just a bit of paint. On marble. It'll take very little to clean up. BFD, basically.

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      5. Martin McGrath ‏@martinmcgrath 9 May 2015

        @skiamakhos @PennyRed Even if you don't think the pepole that memorial commemorates deserve respect (which they do).

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      6. Skiamakhos ‏@skiamakhos 9 May 2015 Birmingham, England

        Skiamakhos Retweeted Harry Leslie Smith

        @martinmcgrath @PennyRed I refer you to @Harryslaststand on that -https://twitter.com/Harryslaststand/status/597144930147016704 …

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        Harry Leslie Smith @Harryslaststand
        The tories have defaced society with austerity and that is something that unlike the war memorial won't wash off soon #londonprotest
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      8. Martin McGrath ‏@martinmcgrath 9 May 2015

        @skiamakhos One doesn't make the other right. I get just as angry at fascists defacing Jewish graves and mosques. @PennyRed @Harryslaststand

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    3. Steve Brookstein ‏@stevebrookstein 9 May 2015

      @PennyRed you will face harsh criticism because your argument is flawed. You're basically wrong to compare the two.

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      1. Michael Walsh ‏@mcjwalsh 9 May 2015

        @PennyRed @K_Niemietz Why the left lost and will keep on losing vicious nasty little twits like this

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      3. Michael Walsh ‏@mcjwalsh 10 May 2015

        .@SPIRIT0009 @PennyRed @K_Niemietz Two medals

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      1. (((Anna H.))) ‏@drlangtry_girl 9 May 2015

        @PennyRed Oh FGS: it's /because/ I and many, many others are worried about the destruction of the welfare state that we're so hacked off >

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      3. London Feminist ‏@londonfeminist 9 May 2015

        @drlangtry_girl @PennyRed Exactly. & that those who purport to defend the WS from fash fail to recognise a monument to *actual* anti-fash.

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      4. London Feminist ‏@londonfeminist 9 May 2015

        @drlangtry_girl @PennyRed If they're all that stands between us and the destruction of the welfare state, we're all utterly fucked.

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      1. jeannette thomson ‏@jen12353 10 May 2015

        @PennyRed Tory voting people don't care for the vulnerable sick disabled the elderly.they are selfish

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      3. Barbary Spencington ‏@Telibarb 10 May 2015

        @jen12353 My ma's nearly 80.She's sick & elderly, had a disabled brother, brought up in poverty you can't imagine.She voted Tory.Selfish?No.

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      4. jeannette thomson ‏@jen12353 10 May 2015

        @Telibarb of course she did not arguing cuts hurt people

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      5. Barbary Spencington ‏@Telibarb 10 May 2015

        @jen12353 They do. I work with disadvantaged youth & v concerned for what will happen re welfare. Concerned for economy at same time tho.

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      6. jeannette thomson ‏@jen12353 10 May 2015

        @Telibarb I envy you hun I lost my mum and my dad two Weeks after .they never voted Tory ever.brought me up too respect and have manners

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      7. Barbary Spencington ‏@Telibarb 10 May 2015

        @jen12353 Ditto re respect. Which is why yesterday's defacement of the memorial made me both sad and angry.

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      8. jeannette thomson ‏@jen12353 10 May 2015

        @Telibarb think people have just had enough to be fair.I saw the footage police were very heavy handed

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      9. Barbary Spencington ‏@Telibarb 10 May 2015

        @jen12353 Sorry, but that's no excuse. Over 50% of the population voted right wing. Over half. That's democracy whether we like it or not.

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