Benjamin Butterworth

She is right and speaks with such respect. You forever hear tropes of trans women threatening women. Here is someone dedicating much of her time to helping a women’s condition, and still they attack. It makes clear the attitude is pure prejudice and not about the content of a persons character.

Steph Richards is a trans woman who works for the charity Endometriosis South Coast as their parliamentary engagement officer which is a voluntary role, but in the last week, she has seen a tsunami of hate directed her way. Some women online have called her appointment deeply offensive, but Steph says this is just another excuse for transphobia. Steph talks to @PaulBrandITV and @kategarraway

@mcnab_toni @chuckthomasuk It will make sense when everyone knows what I know

@benjaminbutter @chuckthomasuk I really liked you without always agreeing with you. But now I am put off by the spitefulness you seem to spread. It's a shame 😞

Who should replace Scott Mills on BBC Radio 2?

@Nicolak66293361 Just enjoying some time out. Off the box for a few weeks too

@benjaminbutter Are u ok ben you not been very active on here

May 1, 1945: Journalist Joseph Goebbels (described as “Nazi-affiliated”) dies

@cazjwheeler Just hope you don’t get molested by another man while you work there - you should know the company has its own Huw Edwards about to be exposed

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@GaytriotGannon @ImRp1c @cristo_radio @scott_mills You have wiped out the entire concept of civi law

@benjaminbutter @ImRp1c @cristo_radio @scott_mills People are innocent unless proven otherwise actually, yes. They should face consequences if they're proven to be guilty, obviously. Not before then. Otherwise you will have people making false allegations to ruin people's lives, careers and reputations.

I don’t know @scott_mills and haven’t met him But if we’re truly at the stage where a man can lose everything… based on an accusation the police themselves didn’t think warranted further action, that seems unfair and wrong. If there’s nothing more to this- and that’s a big if- then we’ve reached a v worrying place. Accusations don’t mean guilt. We need to know if there’s more behind this, or if this is the BBC massively over- correcting their Huw Edwards inaction.

@cristo_radio @scott_mills Yes, that was at the request of the police to the BBC as suspending or sacking him would have threatened the impartiality of the live investigation

@benjaminbutter @scott_mills Huw Edwards was suspended by the bbc for 9 months whilst due process happened. You don’t think 5 days seems quite hasty in that contact? Again to stress, if he’s guilty or there’s damming evidence, throw him to the wolves.

@daygthomas @cristo_radio @scott_mills Can confirm I wasn’t a teenager in the 90s, even if I do have bags under my eyes today

@benjaminbutter @cristo_radio @scott_mills Was it you Benjamin?

As we understand this man came forward to the BBC and they did an investigation over five days, in which he was interviewed. That will have been carried out by specialists and they would need to be sure the decision had serious basis, because otherwise they could be sued for unfair dismissal. The idea that a CPS burden was not met and therefore there cannot be evidence or pattern of unacceptable behaviour is deeply mistaken. Otherwise you wipe out the existence of civil law as well as criminal.

This allegedly happened nearly 30 years ago, yet his work made a decision to fire him after just a day or two of knowing an accusation existed where the CPS didn’t proceed. That doesn’t imply a thorough investigation. Tho I totally acknowledge again there might be more we don’t know. But I also remember Matthew Kelly, William Roache, Cliff Richard, a ton of others too, all ‘accused’ and all turned out to be nonsense. I think it’s fair to ask if an accusation with no conviction is enough for someone to lose literally everything?

@cristo_radio @scott_mills Since when did we outsource what is acceptable for bosses and powerful people to do in the workplace to the police? Saying criminal convictions are the only way to be disciplined at work is utterly absurd

@benjaminbutter @scott_mills But it’s an accusation of that. I agree 100% if guilty, dreadful, awful, but as far as we’re aware this was an accusation alone?

@JossJo_1989 @cristo_radio @scott_mills I can tell you there is

@benjaminbutter @cristo_radio @scott_mills Of course it's serious but the CPS decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges and the case was closed. In other words Scott Mills is innocent of committing any crime. But you don't have to commit a crime to get the sack. Surely there's more to this?

@Mucca85 @LukeSGittos1986 Since when was whether you have breached the terms of your work contract determined by the police

@benjaminbutter @LukeSGittos1986 But didn’t the alleged victim do the same thing with the police and they found insufficient evidence to charge him? What was different for the BBC?

If, and I accept it is an 'if', #ScottMills has been fired solely for being interviewed by the police, then that is an appalling reversal of the presumption of innocence and he deserves to be reinstated.

@winstan9871 You still can’t read can you

@benjaminbutter So you have no evidence re Scott Mills? I only know no evidence so didn’t go to trial. Unless you know something the prosecuting authorities don’t

@winstan9871 You might want to learn to read

@benjaminbutter You have evidence to support these serious claims

@GaytriotGannon @ImRp1c @cristo_radio @scott_mills That is of course utter nonsense. So if your boss forces his hands down your pants and you tell work but you don’t spend two or three years in the court system, they should never face consequences.

@benjaminbutter @ImRp1c @cristo_radio @scott_mills It shouldn't be legal for employers to sack someone over unproven criminal allegations. They should need to have cause, not just "you were accused of a crime". He is punished merely because he was accused.

@ImRp1c @cristo_radio @scott_mills There are many, many things that a person legitimately loses a job over that do get criminal conviction. Or do we now defer HR to the Crown Prosecution Service?

@benjaminbutter @cristo_radio @scott_mills Why guilty till proven innocent?

@TalkTV @MPIainDS So why, given it emerged under Tory government, did he not do anything about it?

"Grooming gang scandal was an institutional COVER-UP" Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP gives his thoughts on the Rape Gang Inquiry. @MPIainDS

@Marsbar20166402 @danwootton @chuckthomasuk you did hear that

@benjaminbutter @danwootton @chuckthomasuk Hang on! Unless I dreamt it…. I’m sure I heard, or read weeks ago he’d been sacked from GMB?

@ReemAmirIbrahim Well said

Nothing gets people riled up more than pointing out the pension system is unsustainable!