Jess Phillips MP: thick, hysterical hypocrite
Jess rants about rapist MPs then urges the government to import rapists to the UK
I think that we can all agree that there is no shortage of extremely stupid people representing us in Parliament. Your Armchair General finds that frustrating but, on the whole, OK — it’s not ideal, but that’s democracy for you. After all, as American satirist H L Menken said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Besides, I would generally prefer that the higher intellect people were doing productive things in the economy rather than trying to lord it over the peasants.
Sometimes, however, one of our MPs manages to rise above the herd of mediocrities by exhibiting such extraordinary stupidity and bigotry that one finds oneself forced to comment. One such is the excrescence that is Jess Phillips MP — bitter, bigoted, stupendously thick, and without two brain cells to rub together (let alone attempt some joined up thinking).
“But what has she done to draw your justified ire, o General?” I hear you cry. Well, let’s examine her recent performance in Parliament, in the recent debate on excluding MPs from Parliament when they are arrested for, or charged with, a crime1.
Today, just on this one day, I have spoken to two women who were raped by Members of this Parliament. That is a fairly standard day for me.
I find that hard to believe, Jess, to be honest: after all, that would imply that well over 700 women were raped by Parliamentarians every year, which would constitute 28% of all successful rape convictions in 2023 — and suggest that each of the 430 male MPs was raping 1.6 women per annum.
Your humble General has an extremely low opinion of our Parliamentary representatives across the board, and yet even I find Jess’s statement to be stretching credulity.
I notice that they are not the people who have been mentioned much so far today. Some of them told me what they wanted me to say in this debate. I will just read out some of what was sent to me: that exclusion “at the point of charge sends a clear message to victims that not only will we not investigate unless a victim goes to the police, but we won’t act unless they’re charged, which happens in less than 1% of cases, so what’s the point?” That was essentially what that victim said to me.
So, now we have moved on from “two women” to enough women “raped by Members of this Parliament” to be alluded to as “some of them” (rather than “one of them”, for instance). Truly, Jess Phillips MP is a magnet for very vocal victims — whose arguments closely mimic those of many media complainants.
I’m not going to get into the minutiæ of why rape convictions are so low — they have been rehearsed and articulated many, many times. But one of the key issues with accusations is that they are cheap — and easy to make. For instance, for better or for worse, the number of false accusations of rape (those proven to be false) is about the same proportion as those that lead to a conviction.
The point about someone being charged with rape is that, for the charge to have been brought, there is at least some proof that a rape has actually taken place. Identifying the possible rapist is the second part: establishing that rape has happened is the first.
Until, in fact, the confirmation in court that a rape actually occurred, whether or not it did is still an allegation of rape. This may seem like pedantry but since, alas, human beings — even women — are not universally truthful creatures, these distinctions are actually important.
A swift internet search did not yield a comprehensive list of MPs who have been convicted of rape, but this 2022 Guardian article outlines a few of the allegations. As far as I can see, only two of those MPs have been convicted for rape (rather than “sexual assault”) — Imran Ahmed Khan (a 15 year old boy) and Andrew Griffiths (his wife, whilst she slept). Both, rightly, stepped down as MPs some years ago and, for clarity, cannot be thus be referred to as “Members of this Parliament”.
So, one has to wonder: who are these “two women who were raped by Members of this Parliament”? Perhaps Jess misspoke, and meant “two women who allege that they were raped by Members of this Parliament” — in which case she should surely correct the record. But, given the difficulty is establishing even two confirmed female victims of “Members of this Parliament”, Jess’s assertion that speaking to women so raped is “a fairly standard day for me” seems even more of a stretch, no? One might almost harbour the suspicion that Jess Phillips MP is lying for effect (and to make herself look more important)… No, perish the thought.
None of this is to dismiss, entirely, Jess’s comments: some are sensible, and debate is, after all, what Parliament is for. But I am merely establishing a pattern of behaviour in that Ms Phillips is obviously happy to bend the facts to suit — although, to her credit she does later say “I can recognise enough my own particular bias in this regard.”
When we were both tabling our motions, I asked him [Sir Christopher Chope], “What about safeguarding?” He said, “The thing is, we are not employed, so employment law does not come to us.” I asked him whether he had children or grandchildren, and I said, “Would you like it in your child’s school if one of the teachers had been arrested for rape and still went to teach your kids?” He said, “The thing is, we are self-employed.” I said, “Okay. Childminders are self-employed, so would you be happy with a rapey childminder who has been arrested looking after your three-year-old? I wouldn’t be.”
I think that we have established that Jess is stridently, almost hysterically, appalled by rape and sexual assault of women — and rightly so. Jess wants to fight for the rights of women not to be raped and, I am sure, would have been equally vocal in debates (if any have actually taken place) on the horrific abuse in Rotherham, Telford, Manchester, Oxford, Canterbury, Aylesbury, and the 60-odd other (predominantly Labour-run) towns in which industrial-scale Muslim rape gangs have been operating — and initially covered up (largely by Labour Party members). After all, with the systematic drugging, gang-rape and abuse of over 1,400 vulnerable girls in Rotherham alone being covered up by Labour apparatchiks, one can only imagine Jess’s fury — especially when one of the councillors was appointed as Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Rother Valley this year (he was subsequently removed after relentless pressure from the Guido Fawkes blog. Although, oddly, I don’t recall any hysterical tirade from Jess Phillips MP. Odd, that).
Anyway, as I say, Jess is very unhappy about “rapey” people — on which subject your Armchair General concurs. Which brings us to our noble MP’s latest intervention, reported by Camilla Tominey today, that we should actively import lots of Gazan refugees in a similar manner to that in which we brought in those from Ukraine…
Now Labour MPs, including Sam Tarry and Jess Phillips, are agitating for Britain to take in Palestinians fleeing Gaza.
Tarry, the MP for Ilford South, suggested that the Gazan people are “a highly skilled … and well-educated workforce” who could benefit the UK, while Phillips said “all of the Gazans that we resettled into Birmingham Yardley were actually doctors, and are bringing huge amounts of resources”.
Well, isn’t that lovely — how generous Jess is with our resources.
But, wait! Might there not be a teensy cultural problem? After all, even their fellow Muslims in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria want nothing to do with the Palestinians. And haven’t we already had a few societal niggles with some of our recent imports (such as the rape-gangs mentioned above) without inviting those who have repeatedly elected a bunch of terrorists as their government…?
Sadly the same cannot be said for occupants of a country run by Hamas. Regardless of their medical — or other — qualifications, we have no idea how many Gazans support their murdering, raping masters, or how many have been further radicalised by war.
Actually, yes we do know “how many Gazans support their murdering, raping masters” — and it took very much less effort than trying to find a list of naughty MPs.
According to the poll, only seven percent of Gazans blamed Hamas for their suffering. Seventy-one percent of all Palestinians supported Hamas’s decision to attack Israel on October 7 — up 14 points among Gazans and down 11 points among West Bank Palestinians compared to three months ago. Fifty-nine percent of all Palestinians thought Hamas should rule Gaza, and 70 percent were satisfied with the role Hamas has played during the war.
That poll is from March this year, by the way; not, for instance, from 2006 when the Gazans democratically elected Hamas as the majority party in their Parliament. So, roughly 70% of Gazans support murder and, crucially when discussing Jess Phillips’s strong concerns, rape — and especially support rape being used as a weapon of war.
Which is very odd, isn’t it? From the debate on excluding MPs, we might determine that Jess Phillips MP is totally anti-rape. On the other hand, of course, she is now calling for the import of loads of people, around 70% of whom support rape as a war strategy (and, very likely, support the murder and rape of Jews in any circumstances).
Given how passionately (some might say hysterically) Jess Phillips complained about rapist MPs in Parliament earlier this week, it seems surprising that she would want to welcome a bunch of murderous rapists, and supporters of murderous rapists, into this country.
But then I suppose that she has a security detail to protect her, eh...? It'll just be her constituents and other ordinary people that suffer (especially the Jewish ones) — but she's hardly likely to care about them unless doing so will raise her profile a few notches.
Which of these it should be was a key aspect of the debate. You will not be surprised that Ms Phillips advocated for it to be “arrested for” rather than “charged with”.