Jess Phillips: The MP who received 600 rape threats in one night!

 

Jess Phillips MP

I don't find Russell Brand very funny. While he's been condemned in some quarters as a sexual predator, I'm not aware that he's been found guilty of any of the allegations that have recently been levelled against him by a number of women.  Nevertheless, I'm curious why all these women have suddenly come forward with these allegations of sexual assault, and why they didn't speak out at the time.

I saw Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, being interviewed on TV about Brand and she seemed certain that he was guilty even though Brand denies all the allegations. She stated that she wasn't surprised and had heard previous reports about him. However, she seems to think all men are serial gropers and sex pests, so all males are suspect to Jess. When the slightly eccentric Conservative MP, Sir Christopher Chope, blocked an "up skirting prevention bill" in the House of Commons in 2018, Jess said she was going to write his name in the gusset of her knickers.

Rape is a serious matter and so are false allegations of rape that can also ruin lives. For some career feminists, rape threats have almost become a rite of passage. Nowadays, no celebrity female's memoir or personal history, is complete without some reference to sexual abuse or a rape threat. Jess Phillips claims to have received "600 rape threats" in one single night. She blames it all on something called "patriarchal culture." It seems that for Jess, masculinity is to blame for everything.

The convicted murderer, Rose West, blamed all the murders on her husband Fred West. Myra Hindley blamed Ian Brady for the Moors Murders, and Ghislaine Maxwell, said she'd fallen under Epstein's spell, because of her 'overbearing, narcissistic, and demanding' father. Thankfully, none of this claptrap, seems to wash with juries. They generally hold people accountable for their own actions.

Jess Phillips, also claims to be "working-class" and once likened herself to a 'scullery maid' in the House of Commons. Yet, her father was a school teacher who taught English, and her mother was the deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation and chair of South Birmingham Mental Health Trust.  Both her parents became company directors of their own business, 'HealthLink's Event Management Services', which gave Jess her first job. It's claimed that her net worth is around $5m dollars and most of her income comes from politics, journalism, and TV appearances. Her husband, Tom Phillips, a former lift engineer, now works as Jess Phillips's office manager.