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Karen White case to be discussed in parliament - please tweet

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Wanderabout · 09/09/2018 21:12

Maria Caulfield MP has responded positively to requests to discuss the issues brought up by the Karen White case to be discussed in parliament:

mobile.twitter.com/mariacaulfield/status/1038783181984555010

This is great news.

Please tweet if you can to say thank you for raising this, and to ask for it to be raised as an urgent question (UQ) rather than during justice questions at PMQs.

A UQ will mean more time and discussion so a better option.

But whatever happens it's great this will be discussed. The current situation is clearly putting vulnerable women at risk, nice to see their needs now being considered.

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SweetGrapes · 10/09/2018 00:37

Have tweeted my thanks and asked for it to be a UQ. Maybe cowards but am happy people are asking questions and will show my support and encourage them.

tiredandweary · 10/09/2018 00:07

Yup - I'd tweet in support - but don't do twitter Grin.

I do appreciate where people are coming from but we need politicians to stand up for this. I've moaned long and loud about their failure so when a few souls start to put their heads above the parapet, I'll support them. They are going to get piled on by the TRAs and, bloody frustrating as it is, I'm not going to join in with the complaints, confuse the message and frighten off other MPs. (However I will be thinking dark thoughts in private about how bloody useless they've all been)

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 09/09/2018 23:37

I'll happily thank anyone who is prepared to acknowledge the conflict between women's rights and Self-ID. I'm not proud. One of nature's pragmatists.

LizzieSiddal · 09/09/2018 22:47

Well, I’ll tweet them and thank them. Many people have come round too slowly to the sensible side, but I’ll welcome everyone of them.

Caroline Flint has also tweeted her dismay re the Karen White case tonight.

They’ll probably both be called TERFs and nazis, They need our support.

Beerincomechampagnetastes · 09/09/2018 22:47

What pam said...

Coward indeed.

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Wanderabout · 09/09/2018 22:44

The thing to tweet is more the request to make it an urgent question rather than in PMQs. An UQ will make it sooner and give much more time than PMQs.

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theOtherPamAyres · 09/09/2018 22:22

I'm not tweeting politicians to say thank you.

Cowards. Wanting to make a name for themselves - but only when it's safe to do so, and everyone else has done all the heavy lifting.

There should be resignations, not rounds of applause.

IAmLurkacus · 09/09/2018 22:01

Maria Caulfield has previously tweeted about how great it was to be on an ‘all woman’ panel with Lily Madigan. She was pushed into it a bit, but I’m not holding out much hope of her having actually grown some ovaries.

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Wanderabout · 09/09/2018 21:57

I don't know but whatever her definition it would be good to encourage politicians to give this as much airtime as possible.

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IAmLurkacus · 09/09/2018 21:26

Does Maria (Who’s a nurse) know what a woman is yet? She’s previously seemed confused?

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Wanderabout · 09/09/2018 21:12

mobile.twitter.com/mariacaulfield/status/1038783181984555010

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