Former MP Andrea Jenkyns Came Up With Some Bizarre Excuses For The Riots?

[@wildwizard8884]

This FORMER mp should not be getting airtime. Her office is just down the road from me, and I am glad that this weird madwoman no longer represents this area.

[@Mark-it8fw]

It's a big part of why are witnessing aparreant mayhem. Former MPs of such a neglectful and corrupt administration being allowed to talk as if they are essentially just bystanders coming in from Mars giving legitimacy to acts to what we are seeing.

[@Charlie_Crown]

They should crawl back under their rocks and stay there, absolutely they shouldn't be given the time of day, let alone national airtime, disgraceful

[@mandycouchbean]

My middle finger salutes you Andrea Jenkyns!

[@carolynwestwood6258]

Couldn't have put it better myself!!

[@Lynnefromlyn]

Brilliant!

[@ChrisSmith-yh9bq]

Spot on!

[@damianleah6744]

Toxic Tory amnesia. Classic deflection, smoke and mirrors. Anyone surprised?

[@jeremysmith54565]

Not in the least

[@stop-the-greed]

In 1940s Germany they called this fog and darkness. It's the same play book 😢

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Nope! 😋

[@andrewfanning3280]

Good point well made. Typically Tory “not my fault”.

[@super_happy_alien509]

@@stop-the-greed Thank you for saying that. nice to know someone else see it.

[@tycoondude5446]

Will Jenkyns just GO AWAY? She’s not an MP, why is she still being given air time?

[@spherelance72]

Same as why frogface got plenty of air time, controversary = views

[@Captain-l-12p]

She's on a mission to prove Angela Rayner right.not that she needs to.

[@paultaylor7082]

She got well beaten in the General Election, getting only half the votes of the Labour candidate. Time to STFU, as there are very few safe Tory seats due to appear over the next 5 years needing by elections, I suggest this idiot is in for a very long wait. GB News possibly, as a new career opportunity?

[@jimcourt9164]

When the call to prayer is common in U.K. cities can we blame you

[@StephenUren-qb6ff]

This was always going to be the problem that Starmer would face. 5 mins into forming a government and the Tories start to ask why he hasn't solved the problems that the Tories caused over 14 years! Then she has a go at Angela Rayner who the Tories really fear because she speaks her mind and they do not have the intelligence to rebuff her!

[@Ominousheat]

I believe you mean 'rebuke' not 'rebuff'.

[@ChrisSmith-yh9bq]

Or possibly "rebut" .

[@mandycouchbean]

Jenkyns isn't fit to lace Angela's boots!

[@julianhall2008]

Not fit to clean her bog,😅

[@SennethLawrence]

Is she capable of tying laces, as wouldn't a servant usually do such things for her?

[@brianferguson7840]

Angela's Boots👢👢 😋🤩🤩😜

[@JeremyNQSM]

I cannot believe how out of her depth she is. Jenkyns' 'arguments' are word salad. She literally says nothing of substance. A total waste of space.

[@AmandaJAart]

She really struggles to communicate. I would do too, in that situation. But, that's why I'm not a politician (or ex MP). She doesn't see her own limitations. It's quite sad actually. I would feel sorry for her, if she wasn't such a hateful individual.

[@Ominousheat]

It is word for word the same salad the maga Trumpian GOP uses to deflect attention from all their failings and bigoted rhetoric.

[@Charlie_Crown]

​@@AmandaJAart she's a paid anarchist, she's doing exactly what she has been paid to do, by the beaten wealthy elites, her paymasters

[@pifflepockle]

@@AmandaJAartKwiksave area manager is about her level

[@Knappa22]

Why is she on a flagship news and current affairs TV programme?? She was voted out with a reduction of 30% of the vote. She should *not* be platformed.

[@pifflepockle]

House needs cleaned at the Beeb

[@neilstapleton30]

The BBC: Board Besieged by Conservatives

[@snowiecat456]

OMG. "The Labour party have had a whole month now to build a thousand houses, build 10 new hospitals, train thousands of new doctors, dentists, police officers, nurses, fix the potholes, deport everyone who shouldn't be here...." "But you had 14 years...." "Yes but that was because of the EU and Angela Rayner..."🙄🙄🙄😠

[@shinkansenshinkansend8316]

And in that month they've got the streets in flames and Starmer inflamed that by turning on the working class. Reeves has taken money from pensioners and lied about the budget deficit. I knew that there was a shortfall of anything between £15bn~22bn, and I'm a nobody. Jess Phillips has said that vigilantly mobs in Birmingham are OK as they thought that rioters may have been on their way to the area. Good God, she's endorsed vigilantly mobs! Lammy has made it impossible to have a good relationship with the USA if Trump wins in November. Prisoners are being released early. Great start. Well done Labour voters.

[@Lloyd.Browne]

Exactly…the fact they use this as a valid reason is beyond belief.

[@wainerollins2587]

@snowiecat456 Don't forget, single mothers, multisex toilets, the blob, Jeremy Corbyn, Meghan Markle and a handful of people in dinghies. It was always their fault and never the fault of the actual government.

[@jimcourt9164]

4000 in dinghies since July 4th

[@EmmaDelamare]

Legal migration is when rich people come, Illegal migration is when poor people come.

[@PeterPete]

Poor people can apply for visas to work in keyworker areas like the care and health profession. So legal migration is not when rich people come and illegal migration is not when poor people come. I'm sure there are many wealthy overstayers here in the UK.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Its why London is packed with Russians and Middle Eastern people… driving house prices up and forcing British people out

[@edwardvickers5506]

I thought they gave the gangs thousands to get into a dinghy ?

[@brettchaflton7906]

​@@PeterPeteIt was sarcasm.

[@Ominousheat]

@@PeterPete And the wealthy, in any capacity, were never touched by the Tories. Remember the dark Russian money scandal that had basically gone under the radar since Thatcher? Or did you think the issue was just about non-Caucasians?

[@DW-indeed]

_Raises middle finger towards Andrea Jenkyns_ I know, its a lazy response, but she started it 😉

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Best comment in days

[@anglonorse2943]

And then blamed Steve Bray for her doing so ! Typical, even after a huge loss the shifting of blame continues

[@wendysimpson6395]

Satisfying though!

[@rabha1754]

I saw that interview in full and like all of the members of the previous government she took no responsibility for her or her colleague's actions in creating the circumstances that have facilitated these riots. She contantly demonstrated deflection at its finest by referring to people's difficulties in obtaining housing and dentistry as the cause instead of admitting that failure to process asylum applications along with inflamatory language from her party was the root cause.

[@chaptermastermarneuscalgar6926]

This isn't something that's mutually exclusive to her because the Tories have basically started their 2029 General Election campaign and one of the biggest parts of it is to attack Labour for not immediately fixing the mess that they created.

[@davidgriffiths3130]

My heart sinks when Victoria Derbyshire doesn't host Newsnight, she's the one who will hold these charlatans to account.

[@pifflepockle]

There was a nice little bit of snark from the host over Jenkyns getting her name wrong but yes, agreed

[@EileenHall-j9f]

It would have been a different interview without question. No real comeback from the journalist. Sorry I missed the riots after Rayners comments. Is she trying to compare the two. Really!

[@JackKennedy-f5r]

The Tories seem to forget they were in power for the last 13/14 years, this is unbelievable

[@LowPlainsDrifter60]

More likely they're hoping the public forgets.

[@annishilcock4587]

These EX MPs who have been voted out by their constituents should not be given a platform. No sensible organisation would employ a member of the public who has been given the sack for incomptenece or solicit their advise on anything?.

[@mandycouchbean]

She gives stupidly a bad name !

[@Captain-l-12p]

And gin

[@iandawe948]

👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣

[@alwhyte6533]

I think it's okay to be stupid...but this kind of wilful ignorance is just abhorrent and dangerous.

[@stevethornhill3304]

There's no such thing as an illegal person. Just people

[@PeterPete]

'persons' defined in legislation are 'people'.

[@finlayfraser9952]

Former MP, she has no further relevance, but her ego wont let her retreat into the shadows where she belongs!

[@danielcraig4974]

No kick back from the BBC with her lies? Well I'm shocked lol 😮

[@starmanjames119]

Says a lot how the interviewer isn't butting in and allows this nonsense

[@Captain-l-12p]

Infiltration by the Tories from top to bottom.

[@sueharrison9115]

Yes exactly what I thought she wasn’t challenged properly at the unfiltered bilge she was saying.

[@Ominousheat]

The tory-alligned autocrat supporting managers at the BBC refuse to allow any proper journalism. It has been leaning that way ever since the 80s. ( warning-global warming rant) A certain story about global warming causing an ice age ( which was 1 scientific paper out of thousands, the rest of which described a hothouse Earth ) was used by the BBC in the 80s to suggest that no real harm was coming our way. That subliminal excuse for ignorance, which science peers had basically put at the bottom of the pile of possibilities, was used to purposefully create public apathy towards global warming. Even though the BBC knew that the thousand other peer-reviewed papers describing the likelihood of hothouse earth ( which at the time Exxon and friends already knew was going to be the outcome of a business-as-usual model ) was clearly the real worry. But the apparently impartial BBC felt that the other literature, which basically explained our need to mitigate fossil fuel burning, deserved no representation.

[@stevenclarke5606]

Biased Broadcast Company

[@ploppysonofploppy6066]

YOU CANNOT CLAIM ASYLUM ILLEGALLY! Why can't these people be told that?

[@shinkansenshinkansend8316]

You can arrive illegally. Here's just one section of the relevant legislation; Section 3(1)(a) of the Immigration Act 1971 states that, persons who are not British citizens shall not enter the UK unless given leave in accordance with provisions in the Immigration Act 1971 or made under that act. Entry without leave is a breach of section 3(1)(a) and therefore constitutes illegal entry as defined by section 33(1) of the Immigration Act 1971 (as amended by the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act). Under section 24 (B1) of the Immigration Act 1971, a person who a) requires leave to enter the United Kingdom and, b) knowingly enters the UK without such leave, commits an offence which is triable both ways.

[@ploppysonofploppy6066]

@@shinkansenshinkansend8316 Unless they claim asylum, which if they haven't, they aren't asylum seekers.

[@ploppysonofploppy6066]

@@shinkansenshinkansend8316 Very impressive. Not relevant.

[@SpectreAtTheFeast-sx8gq]

@@shinkansenshinkansend8316 BECAUSE THERE ARE NO SAFE AND LEGAL ROUTES. Jesus wept.

[@shinkansenshinkansend8316]

@@SpectreAtTheFeast-sx8gq Complete rubbish. Total immigration 2023 1,220,000. Of which, to year end June 2023, 51,530 were illegal arrivals, so around 1,170,000 people found this 'non existent' safe and legal route. Jesus wept indeed.

[@johnm2012]

Angela Rayner did something far worse than call Tories scum: she retracted her comment and apologised.

[@clarecollins2547]

She was asked to by the speaker.

[@johnm2012]

@@clarecollins2547 She held on for over a month before apologising on 29 October 2021.

[@ChrisSmith-yh9bq]

​@@johnm2012Has Truss apologised yet for the mini Budget ? Or Johnson for the handling of Covid in just about every which way.

[@johnm2012]

@@ChrisSmith-yh9bq Not to my knowledge, either of them.

[@BillyBobJoeSnr]

I live in the north and she's still creating the hatred within England.

[@CeiliogWaspflake]

The Tory Party has had right numpties as MPs. Former Tory MP, Byron Davies, has claimed that the riots are because Labour scrapped the Rwanda plan.

[@richardjames3022]

Jenkyns is no longer in parliament, therefor doesn't have the same protection as when she says things in the House, therefore should be charged with incitement to public disorder

[@wainerollins2587]

I wonder if Jenkyns has ever stopped to think why she and her party were voted out of office? She's nuts!

[@mandycouchbean]

It's isn't illegal why does no journalist call them out on this !

[@damianleah6744]

I gave a hunch the journalists don’t know the rules either.

[@danielcraig4974]

​@@damianleah6744They know full well. Stop making excuses for their compliance with the gaslighting

[@rexmundi7811]

Entering a country illegally is illegal. I can't believe I have to point that out. UK has laws about how foreigners must enter the country and procedures one must follow if one wants to immigrate to the UK.

[@RichardPonsford-kv2uy]

Andrea, and Julia Hartley Brewer go out for cocktails on the regular.

[@EdwardLindon]

Is that a euphemism?

[@ChrisSmith-yh9bq]

How fitting and almost inevitable!

[@dwdei8815]

Unless it's to discuss the many shortfalls her atrocious government have left Britain with, Andrea Jenkyn has no place to be invited onto Newsnight - no more than me (or Max). A complete non-expert, an ex-MP of an ex-government. A reject.

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

And a bonehead.

[@alauddin6684]

That’s why they’re kicked out of parliament

[@Patrick-p8z1m]

15 years of austerity

[@blackwavenoise]

Time for the grown-up journalists to call this out. No more hate-driven narratives to divide people.

[@liammalarky3483]

Only a few weeks out of office, and it's suddenly all someone elses fault...

[@malcolmstockbridge2569]

Theres a word for it......Conservatism.

[@The-Wolf-with-no-name]

None of what this failed ex MP has said justifies the thuggery, violence, looting, racist attacks, attacks on police, burning of cars and properties etc. She would have been one of those who would have been scathing about the 2011 rioters but seems to be making all manner of excuses now.

[@AmandaJAart]

I saw this last night. She was talking about 2 tier policing at the same time as riots in France and the US - which have nothing to do with UK policing. Her thoughts are completely disjointed and she can barely string a sentence together. The men on the couch beside her were understandably bemused as well as angry.

[@JohnRussell-y3m]

It’s apple and pear policing. Legal protest are policed differently to illegal ones.,

[@philipnorthfield]

Why is an ex MP on who literally was voted out of office and therefore public life why isn't the MP that won her seat being invited to talk and given a platform ?

[@colinairey7257]

She thinks the public have memory loss and nothing to do with her party.

[@malcolmstockbridge2569]

Not the first time the Tories want us to forget about parties !

[@mandycouchbean]

Love Angela Rayner our Future Prime Minister ❤

[@frankiehood7155]

We live in hope 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

[@leehowson440]

You won't soon

[@danielokeefe2072]

She lost her seat her should be ignored.

[@audreymcgready4329]

Why is she getting so many platforms????.

[@danielcraig4974]

Cos the media are complicit in peddling her ilk's lies

[@supernoodles91]

Jenkyns is an example of the calibre of public servant we get when loyalty to the cause of 'brexit' rather than talent and a passion for serving the public

[@Stevieweevietv]

My word...these former Tory MPs need to own it, not deflect or blame others. Oh yes these problems only happened in the last 4 weeks. It's all Starmer or Rayners fault. It's really pathetic.

[@johnjephcote7636]

When one becomes an MP, present or former, it seems that one is a celebrity to appear in the media for ever.

[@TheWhistlingDixie]

It was one of the most bizarre appearances on Newsnight in quite a while - and that is saying something!

[@johnwalton8359]

Why do they keep getting all these former Tory MPs on?

[@michaelpeirce8592]

Jenkyens should learn not to speculate about the previous government, and TV news service should know better than have on a former MP who is obviously bitter

[@jonaen24]

Media should not give free platforms to guests but challenge answers thoroughly; as soon as the guests say something untrue they should be told to be quiet.

[@nigeh5326]

Not told to be quiet but called out on the lie and forced to back it up with good evidence

[@jonaen24]

@@nigeh5326 And if they can't, then told to be quiet.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Why do these failed ex MPs get airtime?

[@peterlamont8167]

The presenters are not taking her to task shen she gets her two pence in. This is the trouble with the media.

[@harryslater-sl5zy]

Oh I forgot; she featured Farage on her Tory election literature. She can barely finish her own sentences. Blood thick!

[@Jez-Hunt]

Max, its easy to understand Tory migration approaches: legal migration is rich people, illegal migration isnt.

[@grateberk6435]

Why does she keep being interviewed?

[@anglonorse2943]

I'm sure now, these tories live on a different planet than this one

[@williamdew7143]

Someone's angling for a role in the Reform Continuity EDL Uniparty PLC.

[@RankinMsP]

Why was she invited? She's no longer relevant.

[@mike-myke22]

It's called 'Throw the stone, hide the hand.'

[@audreymcgready4329]

All those that bought their social housing house now rents it out in the private sector for extortionate rents. This is a disgrace. This country is paying a very high price for Tories being in power for the majority of time.

[@nigeh5326]

Wrong, SOME are renting out properties they bought under ‘right to buy’. Not all, I know many who live in their former council homes, the couple next door to me bought theirs recently and are spending a lot on making it their family home. I was going to buy my current home until the crash of 2008. Why did I want to buy my council home? Because of a heart attack 2 years before that could easily have led to another at any time. I wanted my wife and 2 young sons to have a guaranteed home if I did die. Then they could have carried on living there with no mortgage to pay or if they wished they could have sold it on and moved if they wanted. I disagreed with the right to buy in the eighties as I could see it leading to good council homes being bought cheaply by relatives of elderly people with a massive discount. Then when the elderly relative(s) died the home went to the relatives to sell on or rent out. It was also obvious homes in bad areas and poorly maintained ones wouldn’t sell leaving the councils with increasing bills for maintaining homes in poorer areas. The tories also stopped councils from using income from selling homes to build new ones and instead the money went to keeping council tax bills lower for the better off. We DO need new council homes to reduce the demand for homes. Some in the private sector are terrible landlords and screw over the benefits system too. That needs to end.

[@debnbhuy]

Not all of them ! I bought my parents council house which I have lived in all of my life and am still living in. I am 63 , single and grateful I have a roof over my head !

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Thank you max

[@CatholicSatan]

I'm waiting for the: "There's good people on both sides..." trope. Eamonn Holmes of GBNews is nearly there already.

[@matt9383]

This ridiculous individual has no part to play in the running of this country, why is she given a platform?

[@Trebornudd69]

The hypocrisy is off the scale!!! Oh hang on - Rayner apologised. Where is Braverman’s, Jenprick and Patel’s apology for incitement?

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I live in a northern community and there is a reason you hear a lot of southerner accents from the rioters because migrants are already intergrated here because it started in the 50s with bus drivers and then in the 70s in cotton mills, there has been 3 generations of intergration.

[@janewayles499]

Well said I'm from Manchester I agree with you. ❤

[@mfredholm]

People like her are one of the most difficult hurdels for the UK to come over to be able to negotiate anything with us in the Sweet Mighty EU.

[@sockjuice8795]

What has the EU got to do with this video. ?

[@nigeh5326]

@@sockjuice8795they are trying to say the EU isn’t interested in talking to Brexit tories. Can’t blame them given the problems Brexit caused.

[@mattsyson3980]

@@sockjuice8795 It would seem, not a lot BUT the UK has to PROVE it is trustworthy and RESPONSIBLE BEFORE the EU entertains any form of dialogue with the UK government now and in future. Failure to understand CONSEQUENCES is the hallmark of Brexit and the Tories.

[@ClaireGrady-s9g]

How do these has beens get to have a platform on major media outlets.

[@ianrogerburton1670]

Why the F is she smiling ???

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Why was there no push back from the presenters this is the huge issue.

[@nigellacey559]

Why the heck are these people constantly on the bbc?

[@Captain-l-12p]

Owned by Tory doners

[@battlep0t]

Tory cronies in editorial jobs like Tim Davie and Robbie Gibb.

[@UdoBloss]

Andrea Jenkyns - just Weird.

[@jackliv23]

well said Max,tories still lying through their teeth

[@johnmorrison9424]

Skills ? Well she is an example of having none

[@patriciahiggins9188]

Hypocrisy in spades

[@alanmansell4297]

She is the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz. Quote: " Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."

[@benchode1]

If she has all the best ideas why did she get voted out 😂😂😂

[@brianaltham1015]

Who was responsible for etc etc.? Who was responsible for inviting this bizarre joke of an ex politician? Pathetic!

[@keithfallinghorse6732]

Remember their famous "plan"? Now it unfolds.

[@Silver-st2zq]

It's never the CONservative's fault according to themselves......

[@frankiehood7155]

Never a truer word said Angela- “Tory Are Scum” brilliant 🤣🤣👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊

[@brendadarnell1233]

no wonder she lost her seat

[@mikehall7189]

Can we not jail these people for inciting violence?

[@mikehiggins4079]

If Andrea Jenkins says Angela Rayner has to accept responsibility for her language. Shouldn't Andrea Jenkins have to do the same

[@johng.1703]

councils used to have a lot of housing stock, but some Tory government decided it would be a good idea to sell them off and not build any more, so those housing stocks are massively depleted and the Tory government didn't build any more.

[@KevinPugh-hq8rc]

It was noticeable that she tried to speak over everyone. No respect for anyone and certainly not for people up north beyond the M25. It's all down a political choice to follow austerity the totally failed economic model.

[@ModelsExInferis]

As someone who was routinely harassed by the DWP (and, occasionally to this day), I can honestly say that, had it not been for my Mum, I would either have starved to death like some poor souls, or I would have offed myself. I'm in the unenviable position of being unable to hold a job due to several life-limiting illnesses. I don't WANT to be living off benefits, it's no bloody fun! But even with several doctors (plus my old MP, who was a Tory, but actually good at his job, if you can believe that!) writing to them, the DWP would put me through hell every couple of years. That was 100% on the Tories! They did that! They did it up until they were booted out and I dare say there are still claimants going through it right now! I hope Labour sort it out because people shouldn't be dying in this country because they're unable to work.

[@Jonny-w3w]

This is like watching the muppet show ' over & over 😃

[@malcolmstockbridge2569]

Now I cant get that bloody tune out of my head !

[@procsorted]

"The Northern communities" ... JFC

[@Captain-l-12p]

Absolutely,no idea whatsoever what it means to live in the real world.northern or otherwise frankly.

[@janewayles499]

Agreed.

[@paultaylor7082]

@@Captain-l-12p She was MP for a Leeds constituency. The last time I looked on a map, that particular place called Leeds was in West Yorkshire, which most people would define as being in the North of England. So she really should know better.

[@Albanach-je1nk]

This is the retoric in Australia

[@zahirahmed2498]

Bring them all in to court for wasting public funds ! Make them pay for there stupidty!

[@mandycouchbean]

Why is she invited onto News night Her expertise is ?

[@kevinwalton4538]

She was absolutely appalling….Knowing the Tories created this mess all she could come up with is “ Whataboutism”. Why the BBC have these out of work, redundant grifters on night after night frankly wants me to turn off, and I normally like NN.

[@thefrecklepuny]

Jenkyns is attempting to out-Truss Truss in the "nuttier than a warehouse full of Snickers bar" stakes. Any failure she mentions are now the responsibility of Labour. However, given we've not even had six weeks of a labour administration let alone six months, the bulk of this failure to build new housing lies with 14 years of the Tories.

[@LoneSheWolf09]

The Tory amnesia is STRONG in this deluded one😆🤣

[@benbastianiartmusic1421]

UK: Don't be harsh on the rioters, their concerns about immigration and asylum seekers have been suppressed. UK: *discusses nothing but immigration and asylum seekers for decades*

[@Anduril1974]

Why the everlasting FUCK don't 'journalists' and 'interviewer' challenge them on this horseshit???

[@trevormj]

The underlying problem within the UK is increasing income inequality - which got worse under the tory watch...

[@robertbose990]

She was never the sharpest tool in the box. I remember when she struggled to spell WTO.

[@mandycouchbean]

Hi Max Hello Everyone 👋❤

[@niceone2bMAN]

Where does she live ? NOT IN MY NAME...

[@leeallen463]

Their definition of illegal is simple but they can't say it, its people they see as from the wrong countries. Essentially cultures they don't believe deserve help.

[@ianwhite9045]

Thatcher decided to let people buy their council houses which was a great plan.Unfortunately she didn’t give councils extra finance to replace their housing stock when they were sold off.

[@verystripeyzebra]

It was worse than that. They were expressly forbidden to use sale proceeds to replace housing stock. How much smaller would today's housing benefit bill be if more tenants were in council housing. Hint. 10 years ago my rent was 200 pw in an ex council property, my neighbours exactly the same flat, council rent 75 a week.

[@Sam88-l4k]

How many former mps of labour from 1997-2010 had interviews on the BBC after 2010

[@brionleverich942]

Wait, Bristol is in the North?!

[@user-ca3sp7er1h]

Absolutely spot on analysis of the tories well said