This is going to be Labour Canvassers experience across the country come
#GE2024
They will quickly see that many are not buying the sound bites and carefully crafted press releases.
All Labour door knockers had better buckle up, it’s going to get bumpy.
I think we let labour get away with white washing their record too much on gay rights. When most of the stuff they did in the Blair years was forced on them by the ECHR, after labour defended the discrimination on court.
@doublehelix
I mean Nadia won Big Brother in 2004, and Hayley Cropper in Coronation street in 1998. So I imagine much of the country had at least awareness of ones trans person out of the two of them.
@PaulHindley_
He's on every news sorry BD bulletin if the day having fun. Would you prefer he stand on front of a grey back drop giving a lecture on land value tax
Here I was thinking
@noahfinnadams
was just the fluffy haired internet twink, and I finally got around to putting his music on today, and damn there's so many bops.
Our democracy functions on the basis of 1000s of volunteer hours given up by normal people. Those normal people have some responsibility to the message they spread, but if you are mad with the party, take it up with the party. Don't scream at ordinary people in the street.
This is disgusting. Quite clear they kept her on the ballot for name recognition and then allowed her to resign.
What a morally reprehensible bait and switch from the Greens.
Breaking: Green assembly member
@sianberry
has resigned from City Hall, just three days after winning re-election to it.
Her resignation means that Green mayoral candidate
@ZoeGarbett
will join the Assembly
What the hell was Keir thinking admitting Natalie Elphicke.
I know as a Lib Dem we admitted some dodgy people, does he realise he simply could have said no? That he could have told her to join Reform instead?
@LukeDyks
I know it's awfully boring of me, but why should a stimulant be required in such a variety of situations? Perhaps we'd all be a bit better off if we had a nice cup of tea rather than a pint.
This is the excuse wing of a currently institutionally transphobic party. It is perfectly reasonable for queer people to police their own pride spaces. Don't let people convince you otherwise. LGBT+ labour should not be welcomed at pride.
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Literally crying, that me mate
@tomgordonLD
has been elected. I remember talking over getting selected and contesting the internal selection, and now he's MP!
Well done Tom.
@Ned_Donovan
I had to use some special techniques to zoom in on the clock and get a reading
Then use the position of the sun and several social media sources
I think it's 7am
Why even bother replying to someone so obviously baiting. The zeal of the party political is not going to help.
The Greens and Lib Dems obviously both support trans rights. We both have problematic people involved.
Turning it into a dick-measuring contest won't help.
I have a relative who is stealth, who has been transitioned for over 10 years. Who would never be clocked in a million sundays. Yet she will be put on a male ward. That's barbarous, inhumane and frankly a breach of human rights.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour will ban trans women from female hospital wards, confirms Keir Starmer.
Starmer told ITV today he agrees with NHS reforms that would ban trans people from single-sex wards. When asked if trans women should be allowed on women's wards, he said: "I disagree".
I first joined the Lib Dems in 2009. I can't say it's ever been easy to be one since then, but I am beaming with pride waking up today to 70+ seats.
What a night. What a vindication. What a party.
I've thought long and hard about whether to give the bad man more publicity, but stealing the screenshot of a teenage girl is creep personified and they should be roundly, and publicly condemned by all right thinking people.
Just took 93yr old Mum to vote, she's registered blind. In a very loud voice she said "Which box to vote for Ed Davey". The returning officer said "You have to shoot yourself out of that cannon love" - A cheer went up from the crowd.
Say what you like about the anti trans nature of this (and I truly will), but this is actually a really disgusting abuse of democracy, I hope this rotten bunch of democracy haters is reduced to ashes and salted over.
Today I have taken bold action to protect children following the Cass Review, using emergency powers to ban puberty blockers for new treatments of gender dysphoria from private clinics and for all purposes from overseas prescribers into Great Britain.
Green Party MP Carla Denyer says it is in her party's "DNA" to push for "more rapid rollout" of renewable energy, while at the same time trying to explain why her co-leader is actively campaigning to slow down the rapid rollout of just such a project in his own constituency.
A non zero chance we now get a Holyrood election before Westminster
1) No confidence passes
2) SNP don't then have numbers to get new FM - without some mega concession
3) Parliament dissolves with either 2/3rds majority vote or 28 days without FM.
4) Stalemate / Election
I don't expect anyone to leave labour if they haven't because likely they were already involved when the party was institutionally racist.
Nonetheless, pretty safe to say it's now institutionally transphobic.
🔴 NEW: There will be "no rolling back" on women's hard-won rights, Keir Starmer has said on the trans rights issue.
Speaking to
@cazjwheeler
, Starmer said that "I think there is a fear that somehow there could be the rolling back of some of the things that have been won".
You know I've always felt that the Tories would go after the Equality Act in their manifesto, or at least the trans section.
But I felt sort of assured, despite ambivalence and occasional rhetoric that Labour wouldn't. I'm not increasingly unsure that they won't try similar.
If Kate Forbes used her Christianity demand more housing for the poor, more succour for the weak, or wealth taxes on the rich, rather than a justification for hating gays, she'd probably find a lot less people opposed to religion in politics.
In any decent society, Rishi Sunak would be drummed out of office immediately for such a bigoted and inflammatory slur Infront of the mother of a dead child. Instead we have the Tories.
#pmqs
Section 28 is going to be in their manifesto. Whether it scopes past trans people and into LGB people is still up for debate. But there will be a form of it.
We stand together or we fall together.
I am deeply concerned by reports of inappropriate sex education lessons in schools.
We are reviewing sex education guidance to make sure schools are not teaching content that is inappropriate, and schools should ensure they’re making content available to parents if requested.
1) We do not judge people's hidden disabilities
2) We do not know if Nigel is disabled
3) At a very reasonable assumption, we know he was in a plane crash which caused extensive physical damage.
Is Nigel Farage disabled?
I doubt it, but he parked in a disabled parking spot for 45 minutes so he could do some shopping.
Can the Police get on this, and fine him heavily?
@EdwardMorelloWD
Balanced and considered? Have you even heard any trans people on it? It had a pre-determined end point, disregarded well founded internationally considered evidence and seeks to remove autonomy from under 25's and autistic people.
It is far from balanced.
Before Douglas Ross was leader he was asked - if you could introduce one law for the day what would it be - he choose to make a point about being anti-traveller.
He's a nasty piece of work
A quick few tweets on the Waitrose West Ealing plans, where
@JohnLewisRetail
are proposing to re provide the supermarket with up to 19 storeys of residential flats.
Its disappointing to say the least on a couple of grounds. Here's why:
Liz Webster is categorically wrong, a fantasist and a liar.
She left the party after trump-esque delusions regarding her last placed bid to become president of the party.
The Party has a long history of standing up for farmers.
🇬🇧 The Liberal Democrats have been accused of “jumping on the bandwagon” after the party launched its own “Back British Farming” campaign.
READ MORE:
@LizWebsterSBF
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@SaveBritishFood
I was outed at school. My teachers found out via rumour and innuendo before I told my parents.
I didn't confide deliberately but if I'd been in a dangerous home then what? The terfs would have got me killed.
If you require teachers to tell parents if their child comes out at school, you force more LGBT kids to live hidden lives for longer. We know that this increases the risks of self harm, suicide AND abuse. If you support this "common sense" proposal, that's what you're supporting.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour has removed the party whip from Lord Michael Cashman after he appeared to suggest that Rosie Duffield (Labour candidate for Canterbury) was too "frit or lazy" to attend a hustings.
Cashman has been a Labour legislator since 1999 (MEP until 2014, now Lord).
Jesus this is absoliutely terrible. It looks like if you're travelling and you log in from a alternative location, they can simply block the device from logging in. That's going to do serious damage (if not kill) Netflix.
Got called transphobic in a employment tribunal earlier lads
> tell us what happened lad
I got called transphobic in a employment tribunal
> ye but why
I was being transphobic
> in a employment tribunal?
yeah it was in a employment tribunal
@Douglas4Moray
The last time you were in Shetland, I looked you in the eye, and told you the damage these tropes did to people like me. The LGBT community.
As one of my MSPs, how can I say you represent me?-
@garydunion
I mean whilst that's partly true, the greens were his anchor in this and he threw them aside to please the bigots. He was weak because he couldn't withstand the criticism.
@RebeccaJones_03
Your fundamental mistake here is assuming that labour will be held to the same standards as us.
After they indeed introduced and tripled fees not even a squeak.
You know I've always felt that the Tories would go after the Equality Act in their manifesto, or at least the trans section.
But I felt sort of assured, despite ambivalence and occasional rhetoric that Labour wouldn't. I'm not increasingly unsure that they won't try similar.
The thing with the Tories moving so far right, is that decent men like Street look adrift. But he makes his choice to stand under a blue rosette and for that he has paid the consequences.
Candidates like Andy Street look like they’re in the wrong party. Doesn’t means they should be Labour. Just means they don’t look at home with the Tories.
McVey says civil service rainbow lanyards and staff networks must go
“Working in the civil service is all about leaving your political views at the building entrance. Trying to introduce them by the back door via lanyards should not happen.”
By my count it's about 6 or 7 of Blairs Shadow cabinet didn't make it to a ministerial position in government. So what happens to Keir's shadow cabinet members?
This is not a criticism of Duncan, but the words "had to" are doing some heavy lifting here.
The reality is, like most, they folded like a cheap suit at backlash. They aren't and never will be allies.
If you want to understand where the toxicity is coming from in the debate over trans rights, the
@RestIsPolitics
just had to delete a clip with Helle Thorning-Schmidt talking about being a trans-inclusive feminist because the massed ranks of gender critical bigotry had descended.
It’s honestly a disgrace that the Lib Dems are aligning themselves with the likes of Galloway.
I’d like to know if
@EdwardJDavey
and the Lib Dem leadership think this is acceptable.
@dhothersall
4. By Trident remaining in England, Scotland benefits from the geographic protection, whilst they can put on their own moral show about being superior and not contributing.