Labour Peer Divides The Internet's With Her Exacerbated Response To Reform's Zia Yusuf
Thangham Debbonaire, a former shadow cabinet minister who lost her Bristol West seat to the Greens in the last election, made it very clear how she feels about Reform UK's Zia Yusuf's views while they were sharing the BBC sofa.
As Reform's head of DOGE which aims to cut down on government waste, Yusuf attacked the government's new Online Safety Act, warning: 'This act makes children less safe!'
Debonnaire just leaned back on the sofa, closed her eyes and rested her head in her hand while he talked about how children could circumvent the new restrictions.
When presenter Matt Chorley said he wanted to hear from Debonnaire, she replied: 'Why? I think he's fine on his own. Why don't we just him talk?'
Her angry response came after they had already argued several times over the legislation.
Debonnaire called out Yusuf when he claimed anti-government tweets had been censored on Elon Musk's social media platform X.
'Last time I looked, I'm not in charge of X, that'll be your friend Elon Musk,' she said, encouraging Yusuf to actually read the legislation. 'I have not censored X. I think you'll find if X has taken something down, that'll be down to X.'
When their conversation returned to Musk later in the programme and the problems with his platform, Yusuf claimed any problems were caused by the AI algorithms.
The Labour peer replied, 'oh, dear lord,' and then pointed out how, moments before, Yusuf had been blaming Debonnaire for problems with X.
Her frustration quickly sparked a response on – where else? – X, with several people praising her for being so candid...
But not everyone appreciated the peer's reaction to Yusuf, with some accounts suggesting she was rather rude...
While a few complained she did not get enough air time at all...
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