Mordaunt gone

the majority party provides the speaker.

Nope. It normally alternates, but it's up to the MPs to choose.

Current senior Deputy Speaker Lindsey Hoyle (Lab) is well-liked by all, as is Elanor Laing (Con).

Wouldn't it be great if politicians were open about their views on self-id and their definition of woman, so we didn't have to try and guess which ones of them support this move to abolish sex as a protected characteristic?

I always wondered if it was Jeremy Hunt.

Yes, where is @R0wantrees? Hope you are on a lovely holiday!

Damian Green resigned at the of 2017 so I don’t think it could have been him. Damian Hinds has been clear that he does not think young children should be taught about gay and trans relationships although he has supported the head teacher in Birmingham. I think it might be Sajid Javid, given JK said it was someone unexpected. He is not religious, although he is from a Muslim family. Anyway, that’s just my guess. He is a quite modern politician - socially and fiscally liberal.

Who knows? I think it would be much harder to implement GRC reform now but don’t want to appear complacent.

ahhh wait... That says Damian Green. Not Damian Hinds.

Now Im confused!

I thought it was Damian Hinds (Education).

That's interesting.

I seem to rememebr this person was described as a senior cabinet memebr.

I wouldnt have thought Education was a particular Senior post. So I looked up Wiki and got this

Following the 2017 United Kingdom general election, in which the number of Conservative MPs fell from 330 to 317, Theresa May appointed Damian Green as her de facto Deputy Prime Minister as First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office and with the ranking of second most senior Cabinet member; above the Chancellor.

Good call.

Linda Riley, enthusiastic welcomer of men identifying as lesbians, singing the praises of Bercow in a now-deleted Tweet.

"In my personal experience since John Bercow become speaker of House of Commons he has done nothing but welcome and support all Strands of Diversity. I have been to multiple events at the Speakers house, where he has spoken passionately about Diversity. #JohnBercow"

<a class="break-all" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0X8CA1QL0JUJ:twitter.com/statuses/1108487394272124929+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cached version of the Tweet

Wonder why Riley deleted the Tweet?

The Tories would love to get of Bercow. Though he was elected as a Tory (the majority party provides the speaker. However they are supposed to be neutral so not part of the Cabinet) he did May few favours.

He clings on, presumably because Labour enjoy Tory discomfort.

We saw him once in Sainsbury's Victoria struggling with self check out. 'Unexpected item in the bagging area'. Precisely. The man is odious.

Yes, that's the thing with Bercow - disallowing the question on Karen White, and mates with Lord. Eugh. Don't think we ever found out for sure who the Cabinet Minister was - but v likely they've gone now

What happened in Scotland is the best indicator that self-ID will be shelved for now.

It is not irrelevant that Christine Burns (I think? or maybe Stephen Whittle) said, on passing the GRA2004, that "we managed to get it through without anyone throwing a fit in press" - well, now plenty of people are doing exactly that.

iirc Bercow has close links with an LGBT charity. Can’t remember the details though.

I’m sure he will be gone as soon as Brexit happens. So that could be as 31st Oct if we are to believe Johnson.

Damien Hinds resigned as a Education Minister in July 2019. So he’s gone!

I cannot imagine Self ID being brought in now. Not just because it seems there are more GC people in charge, but also, all the reports and incidents, over the past 6 months in the press.
Numerous incidents and warnings of what is to come if Self ID were brought in. They’d be absolutely bonkers to do it.

I've had this sudden vision of Johnson sitting behind the Apprentice desk, summoning in ministers, one by one, to advise them of their fate:

"Do you believe TWAW?"

"Yes"

"You're fired"

Oh, if only that were the case.

Would love to know who that cabinet member was/is.
Re Bercow
You may recall the case of Karen White, a transgender rapist assigned to a women’s prison who sexually assaulted several inmates there. In September MPs asked to question ministers about that scandal. Speaker John Bercow – who happens to be the president of a trans-rights campaign group – refused to allow any debate.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/22/must-not-silence-debate-transgenderism-fear-offending-activists/amp/

And Bercow is mates with Mx. Edward Lord.

I thought it was Damian Hinds (Education). He was in a hugely powerful position to diplomatically reign in lobby groups and insist that safeguarding was prioritised. Instead he ignored each and every aspect of safeguarding being undermined, parental alienation and groups pushing drugs and surgery at children, responding to complaints by with letters praising mixed sex toilets. Creep.

Wrong David Davis. Ours is a worthy Welsh back bencher David TC Davies. Unlikely to be in the cabinet, ever, but a Brexiteer so may be listened to.

Bercow is almost certainly self-ID. He hosted the Girl Guides consultant which included that brave and stunning Credit Suisse person Pips Bunce. Close to Edward Lord, I think.

The Speaker is not in the Cabinet.

Agree about Bercow, but is Speaker a cabinet position?

Think it must be meaning someone else.

Wouldnt surprise me if it was the speaker. He has made comments that would suggest it could be him. He is supposed to be impartial but is anything but so needs to go.

I have a feeling the Speaker is totally for self ID. But he was meant to be going too, wasn't he?

I feel it's time for him to go.

Where is R0wantrees?

I miss R0wantrees

I don't rememebr who it was said there was someone in cabinet - someone senior who is totally for self ID - was it David Davies, or a Journo?

It was James Kirkup. He also said that it was someone you really wouldn’t expect to hold this view.

I'd forgotten about that......I think it may have been suggested by James Kirkup

I wonder if the ( Unknown) Cabinet Minister Intent on Pushing Through Self ID ( I paraphrase) has also gone?

I don't rememebr who it was said there was someone in cabinet - someone senior who is totally for self ID - was it David Davies, or a Journo?