Money, money money.
It looks as if they were GPs for hire all over the place, seeking out any and every quick money making opportunity.
The whole gender rabbit hole is full of surprises, but one oddity for me has been David TC Davies MP for Monmouth. I met him outside the Linda/Venice court hearing, where he was talking easily to life long rad fems, who presumably worked with him to organise the WPUK Millwall replacement meeting in the House of Commons. He has done a lot more: PM Questions, Parliamentary debate etc. and suffered as a result, with complaints against him and a fair amount of abuse. He told me that it was important to do the right thing.
Why did he fall down the rabbit hole, and why was he the only one? Or rather, why was he, out of the many GC MPs in all parties, the only one to stick his head above the parapet and criticise party and Government policy.
I had assumed that the Tories were allowing a dissenting voice in case they needed to reverse ferret quickly. But I now wonder if they are this astute. Alternatively that there had been a ROGD child in his constituency, causing him to read up.
I now think he started by knowing about the Webberleys, who live in his constituency. Rather than follow the money, he started with the money, and then where it came from. Straight into the wokest rabbit hole of all.
His twitter is curious. Reassuringly old fashioned. Lots of Brexit, which clearly loses him no votes at all, and lots of constituency stuff: local primary school, national nurses day at the local hospital, a visit to a local army base, and retweets of work by the Welsh Affairs Committee, giving the impression that he sees his role as, first and foremost, representing his constituents.
There is virtually no GC stuff. No mention of being quoted by Andrew Gilligan in the Sunday Times. Only a retweet of Maya Forstater thanking Lord Moonie for the meeting he organised in the House of Lords, attaching details, which failed to attract any comment.
So:
- The GC debate has not translated into a voter issue in mid-Wales, nor I assume other parts of the country. (The problem presumably is that simplistic accusations of being accused of trans/homo-phobia would be a vote loser in most places, enough reason for many MPs to avoid the debate.)
- David TC Davies gives the impression of being a hard working constituency MP, who other than Brexit, focuses on issues that affect his constituency. He seems busy. Yet on GRA reform he has done more than all his parliamentary colleagues combined to ensure that the GC voice was heard.
My guess is that his active support is nothing to do with his political position on other issues. (I recall a certain amount of TRA crowing about him being to the right of the Tory party.) My further guess, and it is only a guess, is that he started by being aware of the Webberley Belize linked money making machine, possibly through local health contacts, and then could not buy into the GenderGP/Mermaids/GIRES/Stonewall narrative that was being peddled everywhere: Government, schools, charities, police and and and.
David TC Davies appears to be a good man. The Standing for Women meeting in the House of Lords seems extraordinary. Lord Moonie, Maya Forstater, Posie, Venice, Tanni Grey Thompson, Andrew Gilligan, David Davies, some top ranking medics and more. A far more interesting, principled and diverse group than many a Parliamentary Committee.
I still wonder what he knows.