As per the Conservative Party thread I posted in last week, it's a fine line May is walking to garner favour post-Brexit (even if No10 is attempting to distance themselves from their own MEPs).
If Berger had fears for her own safety, I wonder why she chose to walk the length of the Dock road to the Conference instead of being driven directly to the door like everyone else? The photo in the article shows her walking past the Liver Building which is probably a mile from the conference.
Before anyone suggests I’m defending those who have aimed abuse at her, I’m not. It’s just that it looks like a photo opportunity that i’d have assumed the Police would have advised against?
If Berger had fears for her own safety, I wonder why she chose to walk the length of the Dock road to the Conference instead of being driven directly to the door like everyone else? The photo in the article shows her walking past the Liver Building which is probably a mile from the conference.
Before anyone suggests I’m defending those who have aimed abuse at her, I’m not. It’s just that it looks like a photo opportunity that i’d have assumed the Police would have advised against?
Not sure that makes any sense? Unless the Police escort joined her at her seat inside the conference, or she had her own conference on the Albert Dock, I'm not sure I follow?
If Berger had fears for her own safety, I wonder why she chose to walk the length of the Dock road to the Conference instead of being driven directly to the door like everyone else?
But nothing in that article from The Metro says that she was threatened by Labour members or activists? All it says is that she got online abuse.
I'm not a Labour party member or activist but I could theoretically and anonymously send her abuse online related to her Jewish heritage. Does that make her safer outside the conference or inside?
How do you surmise that she feels more threatened or fearful of those inside the conference than outside the conference?
Possibly some of that plus, undoubtedly, capitalising on the situation. Berger's a tiresome professional politician who's risen up the ranks purely through connections (great-niece of Manny Shinwell, friend of the Blairs, basking in the publicity, back in 2005, of being son Euan's supposed girlfriend, which she never was) and PR rather than honest convictions and talent. Parachuted into an ultra-safe northern seat.
EDIT: looks like she's had her Wikipedia page purged of the episode where she woefully mishandled a situation with a very young local politician ...
Prior to the convention I read a few articles that said Berger had been in consultation with the CST with regards to her protection rather than the Police, but the photos in the article show Merseyside Police alongside her so I guess so.