Coming back for another little mither during kid naptime. Given how desperately Jack seems to want to be famous and in politics, and in the light of Ashley’s by-election win, the difference between the two of them is really striking.
Jack says she’s a campaigner but doesn’t campaign. She says she’s an activist but does no activism. She says so many things but does nothing. She wants to be rewarded and platformed for doing fuck all actual work. (At this stage I really believe she doesn’t know what work actually is, never mind how to do any.) She’s breathtakingly arrogant and bitter, and SO self centred that she can’t even be bothered to sacrifice a moment of her own self-publicity to congratulate a former friend on getting elected to sodding Parliament.
(When you catch up here, Jack, shame on you for that! You know how hard Ashley has worked, you know about loads of the things she’s done to make things better for other people, and you know she’s been quietly doing it all for decades. You know she deserved to win that by-election and you know she’ll do a great job for her constituents. And yet you can’t even trouble yourself to tweet and say well done. I’d say swallow your pride and do it, but it would be meaningless now, after your return to Twitter was to spout a load of spite and bullshit at people before doing anything else. Your first tweet back should have been “congratulations to my old friend and housemate on a well deserved by-election win, the people of West Lancs are lucky to have you representing them in Parliament, you’ll do a brilliant job and we’re all so proud of you”.)
In contrast, Ashley, as anyone else who has ever even been peripheral to her would be able to confirm, has always got on and done things for other people. The political ambitions she developed originally arose out of her activism, not the other way around. She’s always walked the walk, and while she’s also talked the talk, she’s never been “me me me”, rather “us us us” or “this vulnerable group need support” or “very proud of the things this group has achieved”. She’s a collectivist, and a proper activist. And like I said before, there are definitely points at which our views diverge considerably, but I would still have voted for her if she’d stood anywhere I lived (and did, when she did), because I know she’s legit and that she really does work tirelessly for other people. She’s a good example of what we should all, as citizens, want from our MPs. Not just in it for herself. In it for everyone. She has always been in it for everyone, even before she was really in it! She’s a good’un.