Some of the comments on this thread make me wonder how some people in this country can be so poorly educated or brainwashed.
For example, Keir Starmer has changed his opinion or stance when given good reason to - like an ADULT. But people are accusing him of 'flip flopping' or not being able to stick to a definition or not know how to define. 👀really??? You prefer a politician who just rattles off what they think you want to hear to get your vote?
I'm sorry but if you're that obtuse then heaven help you. The ability to consider different views and information and adapt is a strength not a weakness.
There are almost 67 million people in this country with varying opinions of how to get out of debt, how to generate wealth, how to solve the VAST number of problems we face...if you want a leader who is going to meet the needs of people and try to understand what is working or not YOU NEED A PERSON THAT CAN BE OPEN AND CHANGE THEIR OPINION.
What we all just witnessed in the campaigning was the media and career politicians using all their might to force people to answer questions on policies on the spot, often on life broadcast. I'm sorry, but do you really want people running the country to make up policies for 67 million people on the spot because a bleeping journalist asked them to? A answer which could impact the financial markets? Or lead to them being fearful of losing their power by admitting what they said was wrong? OR would you rather have a leader that's not going to be bullied for a sound bite?
I'm a woman. I've lived in four countries. I know that for as long as the world has turned - no matter what you call them - there have been people who are one sex and prefer to live as the other. Those people have been using the toilets that suit them for a long long long time. This is not new. When I was 23 working abroad in Los Angels working at Fortune 500 there was a transwoman who worked there. She used the women's 'restroom' and I just thought ok she's not bothering anyone. Not an issue. In Canada a gay colleague pointe
But the MEDIA made it an issue. And so many people got baited into it. Ladies, I hate to tell you but woman have been disguising themselves as woman for hundreds if not thousands of years. And men have been doing the same. If a criminal wants to disguise themselves as a different sex to get into your public toilet, change room, fitting room, safe place - they're going to try to do it. It's not a criminal offence for a man to be in a woman's toilet. There are different sexes cleaning - for goodness sakes a man trying to find a reason to be in a women's loo is more likely to pretend to be a cleaner then pretend to be trans.
In a recent census in the UK approximately 262,000 people out of a country of 67 million indicated they do not identify with the gender they had at birth. And yet there are people on mumsnet admitting that they voted for the Prime Minister of all of us based on this topic. That's madness. Of all the issues that we face, you chose your PM based on that? Wow. Talk about making irrational decisions.