MP Nicolle Flint slams ‘political satirist’ Friendlyjordies as sexist

YouTuber Friendlyjordies has been condemned by the Liberal MP after devoting an abusive podcast to her.

Liberal MP Nicolle Flint. Picture: Gary Ramage

Left-wing political YouTuber Friendlyjordies has been condemned by federal Liberal MP Nicolle Flint after devoting an ­entire abusive episode of his podcast to the retiring backbencher in which he labels her a “hobo”, a “shit local member” and a “whiny little bitch”.

The self-proclaimed “political satirist” also describes Ms Flint as the second-most-evil-looking woman on Earth behind former foreign minister Julie Bishop, and suggests she has become a crusader on women’s issues to make up for her irrelevance as an MP.

Friendlyjordies, whose real name is Jordan Shanks-­Markovina, was forced to issue an apology earlier this year after former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro complained he had defamed him as corrupt in a video post.

He turned his attention to Ms Flint on Monday, who became aware of his 15-minute ­tirade ­entitled Nicolle Flint: Enemy to Women? only after she started being trolled by a large number of his 90,000 Twitter followers. “Hey, do you know who ­Nicolle Flint is?” his latest post begins.

“She’s a hobo that wanders the streets of Adelaide wearing a garbage bag. Paranoid. Always looking around for anyone who even inhabits the same space as her, at which point she will yell out like South Australia’s version of Mad Dog, ­‘Sexist!’ ”

Nicolle Flint wears a garbage bag dress in a Facebook video posted last year.

Jordan Shanks. Picture: Facebook

The “hobo” description of Ms Flint is a reference to a Facebook video she posted last year where she wore a dress made out of a plastic garbage bag in protest after Adelaide journalist Peter Goers wrote a column ridiculing the MP’s appearance.

The latest video reprises a post about which Ms Flint complained in a speech to federal parliament earlier this year in which Friendlyjordies labelled the MP “a whiny little bitch” who was unable to take criticism.

The profanity-laden post repeatedly tells Ms Flint to “f..k off” from politics and also refers to her as “Dick-hole Flint”.

It also includes disparaging ­remarks about mining magnate Gina Rinehart, ABC 7.30 host Leigh Sales, Project co-host Lisa Wilkinson and former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian.

In order, he compares the women to a pig, a rat and a chimp, and ­describes Ms Berejiklian as something called “a penis snake”.

Ms Flint said she was dismayed by what she called the “relentlessly menacing” tone of the latest post.

“The thing I find disturbing is the level of effort and energy he has taken in this long post to ­attack not only me but all these other women in such a creepy and appearance-based way,” she said.

“We should call this out for what it is. To call a woman a whiny little bitch is demonstrably sexist. There is no debating that.”

Ms Flint – who has spent much of her two-term political career campaigning for greater recognition of endometriosis and improved support for families who lose children to still birth – said she felt insulted he accused her of being “a do-nothing MP”.

“If that’s what passes for ­debate in politics, no wonder people want no part of it,” she said.