Victoria Derbyshire talked to Jess Phillips about it a few days ago.

‘Sometimes I blame myself for this – for not having done enough to stop it’ @jessphillips.

Police are investigating UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin after he saying ‘he might rape’ the MP pic.twitter.com/huVW5KIQQT

— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) May 7, 2019

‘I cried in the street in Birmingham city centre – I felt the weight of years and years of abuse’ @jessphillips.

Police are investigating UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin after he saying ‘he might rape’ the MP. pic.twitter.com/AeAA7elAuD

— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) May 7, 2019

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Victoria Derbyshire talked to Carl Benjamin this morning about his “jokes” about rape.

“It’s comments like this that would have prevented me telling people what happened to me”@VicDerbyshire reads to UKIP's Carl Benjamin the reaction of two rape survivors to his rape comment about Labour’s @jessphillips.

He says other survivors have thanked him for his comments. pic.twitter.com/y2oE27kHlg

— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) May 16, 2019

“There are two sides to every question,” he says, “and I am empathizing with the other side.”

So there are two sides to rape and he’s empathizing with the rapist?

Probably not; he probably means he’s “empathizing” with the side that finds rape jokes funny and “empowering.” He claims that he gets survivors of … Read the rest

I see this tweet from Jess Phillips.

I'm normally pretty tough, I take the slings and arrows I might just be tired but when asked to comment on this I was really upset. What do women have to do to end this shit, I'm so tired of people legitimising this stuff. https://t.co/QLlO0xMXUC via @MarkDiStef

— Jess Phillips (@jessphillips) May 3, 2019

So I open the BuzzFeed article.

Labour MP Jess Phillips has questioned whether UKIP’s star candidate Carl Benjamin — known on YouTube as Sargon of Akkad — should be allowed to run in this month’s European elections after new footage emerged in which he talks again about raping her.

UKIP leader Gerard Batten has faced repeated questions about