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145 replies

Whenwillitgetwarm · 04/07/2024 07:19

Please let today be Independence Day from the Tory regime.

Never forget.

OP posts:
Hummingbird75 · 04/07/2024 08:39

Never forget that the left always crash the economy?
Never forget that we have penises apparently?
Never forget the day you used to earn money and keep some of it without the labour government taking most of it?
Never forget how shit labour are?

I am not sure we have forgotten the last time they crashed the economy, many of us are still paying the price.

Catza · 04/07/2024 08:38

AlisonDonut · 04/07/2024 08:33

It impacts all women and girls even if you yourself don't understand how.

Men being allowed to call themselves women breaks the fundamental basics of human existence. It affects us all. Women as a seperate entity don't exist in law any more.

And activists who were involved in the Paedophile Information Exchange are being lined up to be in charge of the The Equalities and Human Rights Commission when Labour win.

Honestly, they cannot make themselves clearer the contempt they have for bog standard women and girls in schools, hospitals, toilets. Let alone vulnerable ones in rape crisis shelters or god forbid, prisons.

Perhaps I don’t understand how and, unfortunately, you haven’t been able to explain it either.
I also note that you have no concerns about women calling themselves men.

AlisonDonut · 04/07/2024 08:33

Catza · 04/07/2024 08:23

This is such a red herring though. Less than 0.1% of population identifies as transgender woman. How this absolute minority can impact on your day to day life is absolutely beyond me. The likelihood of you coming across a transgender female in a “female space” is virtually 0. Yet, over the last 14 years Tories decimated woman’s rights left right and centre as women are disproportionally affected by poverty, changes to benefits system, gender pay gap, waning access to healthcare… But it’s not a sexy to-our to talk about, is it? Let’s all pile in onto hypothetical “other” threatening our rights.

It impacts all women and girls even if you yourself don't understand how.

Men being allowed to call themselves women breaks the fundamental basics of human existence. It affects us all. Women as a seperate entity don't exist in law any more.

And activists who were involved in the Paedophile Information Exchange are being lined up to be in charge of the The Equalities and Human Rights Commission when Labour win.

Honestly, they cannot make themselves clearer the contempt they have for bog standard women and girls in schools, hospitals, toilets. Let alone vulnerable ones in rape crisis shelters or god forbid, prisons.

KimberleyClark · 04/07/2024 08:32

I won’t forget.

catgirl1976 · 04/07/2024 08:27

I won’t be voting Labour because they don’t know what a woman is. But I am not a “shy Tory” and will be delighted to see them gone. I will be voting independent as our local candidate is brilliant and also as a sexual health nurse knows exactly what a woman is and doesn’t think men should be allowed to self identify into women’s spaces. She’s also great on local issues.

Catza · 04/07/2024 08:23

GalacticTowelMaster · 04/07/2024 07:59

I am not a shy tory, I have never voted tory in my life. Voted green, lib dem and Labour (corbyn) so I am a total lefty. This is the point, there are an awful lot of female 'lefties' on here who don't have anyone to vote for due to the very real issue we have of erosion of women's rights.

This is such a red herring though. Less than 0.1% of population identifies as transgender woman. How this absolute minority can impact on your day to day life is absolutely beyond me. The likelihood of you coming across a transgender female in a “female space” is virtually 0. Yet, over the last 14 years Tories decimated woman’s rights left right and centre as women are disproportionally affected by poverty, changes to benefits system, gender pay gap, waning access to healthcare… But it’s not a sexy to-our to talk about, is it? Let’s all pile in onto hypothetical “other” threatening our rights.

AlisonDonut · 04/07/2024 08:13

4thJuly2024 · 04/07/2024 07:45

Independence Day

Never Forget

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

if you think Labour are the answer, you don't understand the question.

Unfortunately people still think the Labour Party are left wing.

People have heard whatever they want, because Labour have offered a solution to everything by having policies that actually do nothing.

I cut my Labour Party card up in 2019. I would never vote for them again. Ever. They are run by activists not by the elected ministers.

Beezknees · 04/07/2024 08:01

YANBU. Off to vote Labour later after work. Always have done though.

PlantDoctor · 04/07/2024 08:00

Voted them out! Fingers crossed. When I think back over the Tory government I feel so angry

GalacticTowelMaster · 04/07/2024 07:59

JacquesHarlow · 04/07/2024 07:37

I 100% agree with this post @Whenwillitgetwarm

However... you are going to get flamed on here.

The "Labour don't know what a woman is" cabal on here are very vocal. I really do believe many of them are the 'shy Tories' we hear about in the media, and see Toryism as reflective of their economic and personal status.

I am not a shy tory, I have never voted tory in my life. Voted green, lib dem and Labour (corbyn) so I am a total lefty. This is the point, there are an awful lot of female 'lefties' on here who don't have anyone to vote for due to the very real issue we have of erosion of women's rights.

QueenofHebdenBridge · 04/07/2024 07:55

@Whenwillitgetwarm - there's only one question today and that is "who do you trust to run the country for the next 4-5 years?"

Please do share your deeper understanding of that question with us.

MrsSkylerWhite · 04/07/2024 07:49

**
if you think Labour are the answer, you don't understand the question.“

Where did you find that one, Soundbites for Dummies?

Sondheimisademigod · 04/07/2024 07:48

Whenwillitgetwarm · 04/07/2024 07:19

Please let today be Independence Day from the Tory regime.

Never forget.

Why in aibu?

Ginisatonic · 04/07/2024 07:47

4thJuly2024 · 04/07/2024 07:45

Independence Day

Never Forget

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

if you think Labour are the answer, you don't understand the question.

Please do tell us what the answer is.

4thJuly2024 · 04/07/2024 07:45

Independence Day

Never Forget

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

if you think Labour are the answer, you don't understand the question.

Maddy70 · 04/07/2024 07:45

My vote for labour is done

DontBiteTheCat · 04/07/2024 07:44

I won’t forget. I was at the polling station at 7am this morning.

They voted to cut taxes on champagne the same day they voted to cut funding to rebuild school.

Rape convictions in 2022 stood at 459 out of 70,633 reported cases. More children than ever are living in poverty, the average kid won’t be able to afford to go to University (but they can do national service instead!), mental health services, domestic abuse services, sure start centres have disappeared and yet people claim the Tory’s give a shit about women’s rights?! They know how to parrot the definition of a woman but they do not give a single fuck about any of us.

I will not forget.

Livelovebehappy · 04/07/2024 07:42

I want them out too but wont vote for Labour. A lot round here voting independents. Labour will get in - let's give them the chance to deliver, and then we can judge. Prepared to give them four years.

LlynTegid · 04/07/2024 07:38

I won't forget. I have voted this morning.

JacquesHarlow · 04/07/2024 07:37

I 100% agree with this post @Whenwillitgetwarm

However... you are going to get flamed on here.

The "Labour don't know what a woman is" cabal on here are very vocal. I really do believe many of them are the 'shy Tories' we hear about in the media, and see Toryism as reflective of their economic and personal status.