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Leeds WPUK cancelled

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LiverpoolReSisters · 28/09/2018 16:54

IMPORTANT NOTICE - It is with regret that we have to announce that our meeting in Leeds cannot go ahead due to late and unreasonable cancellation. We will be emailing attendees shortly with more information. We condemn this act of silencing women. More to follow.

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Sarahconnor1 · 28/09/2018 18:26

Pansexual humanist Richard helped make this happen.

Go you, you raging misogynist.

Leeds WPUK cancelled
SunsetBeetch · 28/09/2018 18:24

Go, you wonderful women! Turn the negative into a positive again!

Anlaf · 28/09/2018 18:21

Go, you brave majestic buggers, you. I am delighted to see on twitter that you've plastered the civic hall with suffragette colours

PlonitbatPlonit · 28/09/2018 18:17

Women are assembling at

Leeds Civic Hall
Calverley Street
Leeds
LS1 1UR

Ereshkigal · 28/09/2018 18:15

Agree. Megaphone. Leeds town hall or Hyde Park.

PlonitbatPlonit · 28/09/2018 18:14

I think that's the plan! See twitter for some lovely purple-white-green decorations of the civic hall.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 28/09/2018 18:14

Leeds is no place for women...

CecilyNeville · 28/09/2018 18:13

They should hold the meeting where they are, right there on the steps! It's a nice big space; they might get a crowd gathering.

Redkeyboard · 28/09/2018 18:10

You can ask for information held about and correspondence regarding WPUK etc

hackmum · 28/09/2018 18:10

Fermats: "Leeds is beginning to look like the women hating capital of the UK."

That could be their strapline, couldn't it? "Come to Leeds - the woman-hating capital of the UK"!

There really is a concerted attempt to silence women now: if you're banned from Twitter, banned from advertising on billboards, banned from speaking in public, deleted if you comment on the Guardian, how many options do you have left? I suppose it's only a matter of time before they ban us from speaking in the street with a megaphone. Or, next stage, without one.

Manderleyagain · 28/09/2018 18:09

I don't know anything about the kind of thing you can ask through FOI - but what was the date/time of the complaint, and who made the decision about when to cancel, would be interesting. If the council waited until the last minute to cancel it would be a bad look.

Ginazon · 28/09/2018 18:08

I’m also ashamed of my city. I’m on my way in to join them.

seafret · 28/09/2018 18:07

LEEDS - also gangs of men grooming and raping young girls

rainbowgrimm · 28/09/2018 18:03

I'd like to apologise on behalf of my City. I'm off to email LCC, they do not represent me & the people I know.

TurfClub · 28/09/2018 17:58

isn't it good our government is accountable to persecuted minorities like Ms. Ligma Butthole twitter.com/lauranorder2020/status/1045718776673644544

happydappy2 · 28/09/2018 17:57

Janice Turner knows....

TigerDrankAllTheWaterInTheTap · 28/09/2018 17:55

Janice Turner's already on it. So is Graham Linehan. This is an absolute disgrace. The mealymouthed cowardice, the utter hypocrisy, just breathtaking.

boldlygoingsomewhere · 28/09/2018 17:54

Sadly not surprised that this happened in Leeds. I wouldn’t move there if you paid me. Mesmac, WYP, Holbeck, Mermaids...something is rotten there and it stinks.

Hope you manage to hold the meeting anyway. Love the idea of the megaphone outside the City Hall.

TurfClub · 28/09/2018 17:53

Laura's tossed out a nice misogynist slur.

twitter.com/lauranorder2020/status/1045706309188882432
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_(slang)

Transwomen are women, obviously.

LittlePearl · 28/09/2018 17:52

Is there any way to alert any of the GC journalists to this? Janice Turner, Hadley, James Kirkup? I fear it's our only hope of getting any coverage.

Iused2BanOptimist · 28/09/2018 17:51

Exactly my thought MsMcWoodle

PlonitbatPlonit · 28/09/2018 17:51

Can we change the subject line. Yes, the venue has cancelled, and WPUK that some women will therefore choose not to come, but there are plans to hold a peaceful assembly in protest at women's voices being silenced.

CaptainMarvelDanvers · 28/09/2018 17:50

Use a charity shop like the rest of us.

Also I have PCOS and I can’t get laser treatment covered so why do they expect it?

ToeToToe · 28/09/2018 17:49

They have always managed to find a new venue in the past. This does happen every time - it does seem deliberate to leave it so late.

ThinkIveFoundYourMarbles · 28/09/2018 17:49
Shock

Horrified to hear this. Truly horrified. Never felt such genuine fear for the future of freedom of speech and belief.

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