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Claimed she had 3,000 people sleeping rough in her constituency. Actual figure was approximately 30.
Small potatoes really insofar as negative effect of lieing goes, she could have just been stupid and picked wrong figure. Not saying she is not a liar, all MPs are but there are far more substantial lies that matter to small people like us.
So ignorant misogynists aside, why is that inappropriate?
MPs do not have an official dress code, although the House of Commons says they should wear clothes that "might ordinarily be worn for a fairly formal business transaction".
"The Speaker has, on a number of occasions, taken exception to informal clothing, including the non-wearing of jackets and ties by men," Parliament's website states.
In my opinion her dress doesn't meet that unwritten dress code. Your opinion might differ.
Either the speaker didn't get a chance to stop her before she walked in or she got a 'pu*sy' pass because the male speaker didn't want to be seen as sexist at the time.
A male MP on a recent zoom call to the commons got slapped down by a female speaker for wearing a jumper at home instead of a jacket:
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