Jess Phillip's championing the removal of asking the consent of a woman before her marriage changes.

I'm so furious I feel like an utter fool for believing her.

I know I'm the forum cynic, but I have kept saying she's not to be trusted. She's never had any convictions or principles. She's only ever backed what she thinks is the winning horse or what she calculates will advance her career. It's only ever been positioning with Jess.

But Jess has always pretended she can't define a woman well since it became expedient to do so

With her background she knows about coercive control, abuse, DV, etc but sex-based analysis is impossible when she can't define a woman.

I'm past being angry about this. It's laughable. Honestly, if the woke crowd were actually the Tories in disguise, trying to make Labour a lost cause, they couldn't do a better job.

And a PP is right, they're not left-wing. Their structural analysis is woeful. They're misognists in t-shirts and they don't represent the electorate, but Labour is too cloistered to realise.

Please stop confusing the Labour Party (in all its forms) with the Left - the biggest ally women have had in this fight has been the Communist Party and their understanding of sex based rights and oppression

And I agree with Flora, can you imagine what would have happened to women's rights, if this lot had got in?

Can I burn JPs book now? I'm so furious I feel like an utter fool for believing her. She has seriously lost her way, if any of it was true.

Ffs, has she been “stonewalled”?

I wonder if she’d be willing to meet with an actual women’s group?

She does my head in, so out of touch but nothing to worry about since the party won't elect her anyway. Does anyone really think the unions are Jess Phillips types?

Yeah fuckity bye Labour

Not a clue. Still keep, bashing on with same old stuff

Not a clue still even though the election showed them what ordinary people thought

I joined the LP after the election with the vague notion of voting for her if I could. Now I have as many people I feel comfortable voting for as I did in the GE. Is spoiling a ballot a thing in leadership elections?! Maybe I'll just give up with the LP before I've even been a member for a month. I think they really are beyond saving.

Well they were never going to win the next election, in their current condition, maybe the one after that if they are very lucky.

They are all having to court the left

The self-identified left, you mean! They're all LARPing. How can you be of the left if you don't recognise material reality? Materialism is what the actual left was built on.

Can you imagine if the fuckers had got into power? All credit to the women that got the concessionary clause in the manifesto, but there's no way in hell this lot weren't going to push for the wokest of interpretations of it. Butler might have been a liability gobbing off about it, but she wasn't wrong. The party core is utterly woke, and the careerist prats trying to be leader have to win the 'hearts and minds' of the woke zombies who have neither, so tbh, any hope you might have had that the next Labour leader would say sensible things about women's rights is a pipe dream right now.

How disgusting is it that we live in times where 'courting the left' doesn't mean..idk..worker's rights or social housing or disability rights...but throwing women under the bus for the sake of AGP men.

Shame on Phillips.

Oh Lang not Starmer too. FFS.

They're all competing for Labour membership votes, not the wider electorate. Even Lisa Nandy will not be saying anything in defence of women, I promise you.

It's the most ludicrous state of affairs I've ever seen. They're preparing to lose the next election.

Labour is full of cunts of the first order like Jess & Kier. UK politics is a shitshow & we need a proper feminist party who are not afraid of being vilified by the woke establishment.

They are all having to court the left like crazy just to get the leadership. Irony is, even with a more electable leader Labour will still be unelectable because the left still has a stranglehold. They need their Kinnock/Militant moment.

That’s disappointing. Eurgh.

Shame Keir can't champion protecting women's rights.

Oh Lang not Starmer too. FFS.

Oh, and don't be thinking about Starmer either. I'm sure he thinks allowing women to exit a marriage before its terms become fundamentally different are antithetical to "trans rights" too.

twitter.com/williamroney9/status/1213851098492133376

Really refreshing to hear Keir_Starmer in Stevenage today, championing trans rights and committing to protect them if elected. I hope the other candidates can do the same. #LabourLeadership

I think we can all now see quite how lukewarm the manifesto promise was, as man of us suspected. Transwidows won't be able to vote Labour in the forseeable future.

Sail on bye Jess.

We get you sell out women. We know you showed us

Fuckity bye

Why is anyone even surprised? Jess doesn't have principles. She has ambitions. She's always been like this. At the moment, she's calculating that the LP membership is majority Woke (and she's quite likely right, given the membership surge when Corbyn became leader) and so Woke are her current principles. She'll have some new ones if they ever become more suitable, never thee fear.

She would be a disastrous leader anyway.

Well she did. And will,keep,doing it.

Bye Jess and think on what you did.

But guess you won’t

Dear god. How can she do this with her background and experience. How can she.

When are labour going to realise that (outside their little Westminster bubble) that Identity politics is highly toxic and is going the way of the dodo. People are sick of it. They are truly unelectable.