>> The reports I've seen on BBC, Guardian and I websites are all clear she was
>> speaking about the Government Front Bench and with particular focus on the PM. Nothing suggests
>> it was aimed at Tory voters.
>>
>> The epithet causing a fit of the vapours is scum. Nobody seems to have disagreed
>> with racist, misogynist or homophobic.
>>
Even the Guardian, which has never been a particularly reliable source of unbiased or accurate news, does not make it clear that she was referring to the Front Bench, though there has been some spin to portray it that way.
The focus on the offence caused by referring to vast swathes of voters as ‘scum’ is because that’s the language she used. After some in her own party distanced themselves from that statement she then said she would say sorry, but only if Boris Johnson apologised for past comments he made “that are homophobic, that are racist, that are misogynistic”. But there were no specific comments referred to so it’s a specious parallel to draw, and an approach reminiscent of a teenager arguing, badly.
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