'Who came up with this sexist drivel?': Labour is blasted for its ... trends now
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The Labour Party has been blasted for its 'misogynistic' social media meme about housing after a slew of the party's own female MPs criticised the now-deleted tweet.
The post showed a woman looking at her partner as she lies in bed, with her thinking: 'I bet he's thinking about other women.'
But the man is captioned as thinking about Labour's newly announced housebuilding policy and Sir Keir Starmer's plans to build on brownfield sites.
The meme was posted at 12.30pm on Friday and quickly got spread around Twitter with elected Labour representatives as well as members of the public condemning it for making women appear as 'thoughtless creatures'.
It was posted on the political party's main Twitter account, which has one million followers, and racked up more than 1.5 million views before it was eventually deleted at around 9.40pm.
The meme was posted at 12.30pm on Friday by the Labour Party's official Twitter account and quickly got spread around Twitter
Labour MP Diana Johnson said the meme was 'awful' and she had 'made my views clear' to the party
Labour MP Diana Johnson said the meme was 'awful' and she had 'made my views clear' to the party.
While her colleague, Labour MP Rosie Duffield, said: 'This advert has not been well received by women, especially Labour MPs. It is sexist and also the point of it is completely unclear.'
Labour for Walthamstow since 2010 Stella Creasy posted: 'Fwiw (for what it is worth) the labour policy on the ‘grey
