Lisa Nandy, since the leadership election, has been deliberately treated excessively bad when it comes to certain issues
People know her heritage, how unacknowledged it is, and they deliberately play on the idea that she's helping the far-right because as an Asian woman, it makes her look really bad. They constantly depicted her as this Blue Labour supporter over just about everything
Make no mistake about it, they were always alluding to her as a BAME woman aping Blue Labour stuff. The idea that she as a leader of Labour would represent a good thing in regards to antiracism was dismissed by them, a lot of white Labour folks it must be said
There were a lot of people who voted RLB and genuinely loathed her more than Starmer even though Nandy was seen as the bridge between the two. Nothing Lisa Nandy did ever gave off the impression she was a UKIP sympathiser
But people couldn't fathom that an MP from Wigan who actually speaks to her constituents is worried that millions of people are drifting away from the party. Instead they assumed the absolute worst of her.
Today people have evoked Jo Cox's name to really go for her, as if anything Nandy is suggesting is somehow Britain First material. It's unbelievably gross and disconcerting if you're a British Asian leftie
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