Labour Lewisham councillor accused of making 'foul and abusive posts' relating to transgender issues

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ShootsFruitAndLeaves · 09/01/2020 21:05

Rather curious news story

One could interpret it as referring to transphobia, but given that Momentum is likely to have purged any such people from the party, it strikes me that this is rather more likely to refer to tweets such as these

It obviously makes far more sense that Labour would cover up an investigation into someone using violent language against feminists than they would protect someone accused of transphobia - the latter would have been expelled.... And as for 'violent language' - you'd be up in court on criminal charges, would you not, if it was supposed transphobia.

I think the nature of this complaint is quite clear.....

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ahagwearsapointySantahat · 09/01/2020 21:31

There was a rather clunky "they" in the article - of course it's possible it was used in order to preserve anonymity, but that wasn't necessarily how it came across to me. So you may be right. (Hmm, I better remove my Santa hat sometime...)

Binterested · 09/01/2020 21:23

Please can we just laugh this foolishness into collapse.

Binterested · 09/01/2020 21:23

Love the picture

Binterested · 09/01/2020 21:22

What? Armando Ianucci needs to get on top of this. Death of Stalin was brilliant and he could do something amazing with all this double speak and gibberish. He won’t though.

Qcng · 09/01/2020 21:22

Huh.
Can't really make head nor tail of that article, the councillor remains unnamed, and it doesn't even say what LP rules might be applied or changed.

How can you be sure it's the Lily Madigan supporter?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/01/2020 21:18

Here's the moment of the big reveal. Note how gripped Cllr Gallagher's councillor colleagues are.

This is Lewisham. Almost all of them are Labour, and a good many are probably in Momentum. Even in Lewisham, though, this sort of thing goes down like a lead balloon.

Labour Lewisham councillor accused of making 'foul and abusive posts' relating to transgender issues

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ShootsFruitAndLeaves · 09/01/2020 21:09

Ms. Gallagher has many dozens of similar tweets and came out as circumgender last year (this is someone who is a woman and identifies as female but who wants to identify as trans anyway. Sort of double negative gender theory)

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