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'Knell. Anyone seen Jennifer James' tweets about her [labour party] suspension meeting?

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PlectrumElectrum · 01/03/2018 01:30

I know this is more party politics but FFS. SMH.

JJ says

Yesterday I had my suspension meeting with @uklabour. They asked me why I criticised Action For Trans Health (ATH) and called them an hate group. In a tweet where I'd screenshot the ATH posts about terfs needing a punch and 10,000 police officers needing to be murdered... 🤔

So... I'm being called in by the Labour party for criticism of a group THAT WANTS TO MURDER TEN THOUSAND MEN AND WOMEN POLICE OFFICERS. Working class people, serving the community. But I'm in the wrong? 😳

If this was the EDL or another far right group, they would be, rightly, condemned for calling for the Death of Thousands of Police Officers. But somehow having the word 'Trans' in the group's name makes it OK?

... Anyway... my point IS that I have made complaints via email about, idk, maybe 15 Labour members for being personally abusive towards me? Have not even had one acknowledgement from [email protected] yet.

What else was there... dicks wasn't mentioned at all... oh yes, I was asked about a joke tweet I sent to James Kirkup of the Spectator, saying he deserved more abuse than he got. It was intended to make him laugh. Now James Kirkup didn't complain about the tweet...

and Labour never contacted James Kirkup of The Spectator to ASK him if he was offended by the tweet. However someone Else was very offended On His Behalf (looking at you Secret Squirrels) and sent it in.

How did I know James Kirkup of The Spectator magazine never complained to @UKLabour? Well I asked him, didn't I. And James GOD LOVE HIM wrote me this. Which I read out in full to the investigating officers of The Party:

'Knell. Anyone seen Jennifer James' tweets about her [labour party] suspension meeting?
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athingthateveryoneneeds · 02/03/2018 10:05

How much you want to bet these keyboard warriors, TRAs, MRAs, handmaidens and virtue cookie signallers CBA to even register to vote let alone actually vote in an election. Real life and reality seem to be beyond their grasp.

AngryAttackKittens · 02/03/2018 08:03

The fact that she's been so loyal to the party and received this in return should be a wake-up call for all Labour women. The party doesn't deserve their loyalty.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 02/03/2018 07:46

true Wobble and the kids who don't vote are unlikely to be pro self id anyway. i know a lot of young mums who would think it was bollocks, why would they want cross dressers in the top shop changing rooms? Bollocks to that. Live and let live extends to women and girls.

QuentinSummers · 02/03/2018 07:46

Yes. I think Labour (indeed all parties) would get a huge shock if women stopped putting their energy into the party.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 02/03/2018 07:36

She is a brave woman. Labour have lost my vote, they have lost my membership. Women like Jenn work so hard behind the scenes but they don't need us anymore. Good luck with that Labour.

Wobbleslikeaweeble · 01/03/2018 13:43

I’d have thought young people, students, LGBT would have voted Labour anyway - what gains would they really make from that demographic? I’d have thought they wouldn’t want to piss off their loyal older demographic though - me - and they have.

womanformallyknownaswoman · 01/03/2018 11:00

I smell focus group mentality behind Labour's stance - appealing to the young pissed off voters. I think they think by staying PC and pro-Trans that will appeal to the voters they need to win the GE - it's the same strategy companies used plus Blair & Clinton to gain power.

But it's been discredited. What people want are values plus leadership congruent with those values, not more BOT driven politics.

I wish JJ well - I do fear for her physical and psychological safety in the face of all the mobbing and harassment, with no backup from Labour. I hope she knows when to walk away for her own sake.

PerfPower · 01/03/2018 10:22

Wow, just had a look at her twitter. It's unbelievable, the guy calling her 'a deplorable cunt' wtf?! Safe in the knowledge that he won't suffer any consequences while she's been suspended for not saying that delusions are truth? For calling out the deranged ATH? I think she comes across as furious and so she should be. More women should be furious about this, it gets things done. Good luck Jennifer and well done for not quietly accepting this bullshit.

HerFemaleness · 01/03/2018 10:21

Check out this charmer. Apparently all men call women cunts don't you know.

'Knell. Anyone seen Jennifer James' tweets about her [labour party] suspension meeting?
'Knell. Anyone seen Jennifer James' tweets about her [labour party] suspension meeting?
nauticant · 01/03/2018 10:18

they're just not interested in winning a GE

I also think this is lower down on their list of priorities. Their main priority appears to be to crush the opposition but because they are looking inwardly rather than outwardly, the opposition is people in their own ranks so it's Blairites, centrists, troublesome women, etc. Once those have been crushed they'll find others.

Gacapa · 01/03/2018 10:08

The only plausible explanation I can come up with is that they're just not interested in winning a GE. Real power scares them. I dunno. The plot is lost and it's a shitfest of aggressive screeching into an echo chamber of hyper-masculinity and blind identity politics.

The Labour Party is fucked, that's for sure.

LittleLebowski · 01/03/2018 10:06

Well Jeremy Corbyn has appeared to backtrack on his personal ideology on Brexit so it could be possible for them to go against or at least shelve self-ID if it's causing enough of a commotion. No point just being in opposition; they need to win a general election and that will mean I think putting to one side anything that seems a bit loony left. As has been said, most people are WTF? when they grasp the idea of what the potential of that policy means - hence the noise in more right-wing press. I can't imagine many people being alright with a bloke in the ladies going "it's alright love, I'm a woman".

QueenLaBeefah · 01/03/2018 09:43

But the ideology is clearly not in the best interests of 51% of the population. It must be the age old misogyny that is driving this.

BigEthel · 01/03/2018 09:38

I really don't understand why the Labour Party is so committed to the trans agenda. It's not a vote winner for starters.

Because they put winning elections behind being ideology. The number of Labour people (joined the party since 2015) saying they'd rather not be in power if it means "selling out".

Geronimoleapinglizards · 01/03/2018 09:37

*kind of

Geronimoleapinglizards · 01/03/2018 09:36

I'm appalled.

I just don't really know what to say beyond that because this feels like the action of a totalitarian state.

'JJ you were observed looking strangely at Dear Leader's left elbow and your tongue must be cut out' kind out territory.

Labour, Gilead is thatta way -->

QueenLaBeefah · 01/03/2018 09:28

I really don't understand why the Labour Party is so committed to the trans agenda. It's not a vote winner for starters.

UpstartCrow · 01/03/2018 09:23

I'm starting to think this year has been marked as significant for the take down of women.

LizzieSiddal · 01/03/2018 09:20

corked? Sorry that should be expelled

LizzieSiddal · 01/03/2018 09:16

So she may be a corked because she pointed out a group wanted to kill people Hmm

Riiiiiiight.

Well we can only hope if she does, the press all pick this up and run with it.

KochabRising · 01/03/2018 09:16

Never voting labour again. They no longer speak for me.

PlectrumElectrum · 01/03/2018 09:14

Sorry that's not the outcome but what she thinks will be the outcome.

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PlectrumElectrum · 01/03/2018 09:13

She says she thinks she'll be expelled from the party over this.

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LizzieSiddal · 01/03/2018 09:09

Does anyone know how the meeting ended? Is she still suspended?

ellaoldie · 01/03/2018 09:02

The irony is that JJ seems to be the most loyal foot soldier a party could ever want. How many other Labour members would have deserted the party already under this kind of stress? But she's hung on and defended JC and yet it's her they seem to want rid of

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