It looked to me that her message was 'look at this, this is no way a Labour area, we don't have a chance here, I'm wasting my time', which is all fair and inoffensive. But if a front bench politician couldn't see how easily it could be twisted, especially in these days when 'britishness' seems to matter because the whole national political discourse is on a xenophobic gish gallop, she's too stupid to be on the front bench.
It looked to me that her message was 'look at this, this is no way a Labour area, we don't have a chance here, I'm wasting my time', which is all fair and inoffensive. But if a front bench politician couldn't see how easily it could be twisted, especially in these days when 'britishness' seems to matter because the whole national political discourse is on a xenophobic gish gallop, she's too stupid to be on the front bench.