I cannot, cannot believe that it hasn't been total headline news about Dawn Butler closing her constituency office due to violent threats. This is an assault on our democracy, it is an assault on women of colour in public life, and it is a threat to a functioning state.
In December we had endless bulletins about a completely untrue incident of a Hancock's aide being "attacked" - now we have incontrovertible evidence of a Labour woman under siege & while it is making news it's not the headlines.
But this is what happens when you elect a Party whose leader told women raising concerns about their safety (and the associated safety of democracy) they were talking "HUMBUG". Male violence is women's reality. It's not humbug, and the danger to democracy isn't humbug either.
metro.co.uk/2020/07/11/hav… - this article confirms the threats played a part in her decision
