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muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 05:29 PM Feb 2020

Calls for Tory aide to be sacked over 'enforced contraception' remarks

Labour is calling for the immediate sacking of a Tory adviser over his controversial remarks about pregnancy, race and women’s sport.

Oxbridge-educated Andrew Sabisky is working as a No 10 adviser, having been appointed after chief aide Dominic Cummings put out a job description for “misfits and weirdos” to join him in trying to shake up government.
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“One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies, creating a permanent underclass would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception and the onset of puberty,” he wrote. “Vaccination laws give it a precedent, I would argue.”

In another post circulated on Twitter, Sabisky claimed black Americans had a lower average IQ than white people and were more likely to have an “intellectual disability”. He also tweeted: “I am always straight up in saying that women’s sport is more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men’s.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/16/tory-aide-wants-enforced-contraception-to-curb-pregnancies

Looks like the British Steve Bannon has hired the British Steven Miller.

The Mail claims "Ministers and their special advisers are flatly refusing to work with Andrew Sabisky", but that's not clear if it's because they find him abhorrent, or just embarrassing.
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Calls for Tory aide to be sacked over 'enforced contraception' remarks (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 OP
How about just castrating all males at puberty? PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #1
Slow down...ok only conservatives.😉 dewsgirl Feb 2020 #3
Looking at reports and he is hideous Soph0571 Feb 2020 #2
I think we all know who is in charge here T_i_B Feb 2020 #4
This is policy, not eugenics/racism etc., but he wants to treble UK defence spending muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #5
Boris Johnson adviser quits over race and eugenics controversy muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #6

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
2. Looking at reports and he is hideous
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 05:44 PM
Feb 2020

It will be really interesting to see what happens... it is a bell weather moment I think for this government. Who is in charge?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
6. Boris Johnson adviser quits over race and eugenics controversy
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 06:33 PM
Feb 2020
A controversial new adviser to Boris Johnson resigned on Monday night after MPs and experts accused No 10 of condoning his controversial claims that intelligence is linked to race.

Andrew Sabisky, who was brought into Downing Street by Johnson’s senior aide Dominic Cummings as part of his appeal for “misfits and weirdos”, became the subject of intense media scrutiny after details emerged of his views on subjects ranging from black people’s IQs to whether benefits claimants should be encouraged to have fewer children.

But amid mounting criticism within the Conservative party after No 10 stood by the appointment, Sabisky said that he would be stepping down as a “contractor” to No 10.
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The news of Sabisky’s exit came despite the government’s apparent determination to ride out the controversy, with a Downing Street spokesman refusing to answer more than 30 questions from reporters on whether Boris Johnson agreed with Sabisky’s views.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/17/boris-johnson-adviser-quits-over-race-and-eugenics-writings

A win for decency.
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