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Piers Morgan with Lisa Nandy on Good Morning Britain

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musicposy · 10/03/2020 07:46

He’s trying to push Lisa Nandy as to whether any man can self identify and compete in woman’s sports. He’s actually trying to talk some sense and saying it’s unfair to woman’s rights. Making really good points about trans rights overriding woman’s rights.
She will not give a straight answer to anything.

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AnotherNightWatering · 10/03/2020 15:28

In 20 years, when there's a documentary looking back at this, I reckon that interview will be centre stage. It was absolutely astounding.

Maybe she thought that as PM is detested by many (including me!), she would come across as someone caring and full of heart. How wrong she was. And what fabulous questioning from PM.

CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 10/03/2020 15:11

She must have know what the questions were going to be?

I very much doubt it, I think most Labour mp's are still under the delusion that this is only something a few people are against and no one is talking about.

Dreamprincess · 10/03/2020 15:11

PM: So I can be a two-spirit penguin?

During some dire periods in my life, I would look at the ground and wish I was an ant - busy with my duties, unaware of heartache or sickness. Now, just as I have arrived at a peaceful phase and no longer wish to be an ant, a future Labour Leader supports self-ID. Life isn't fair is it Lisa?

Mockerswithnoknockers · 10/03/2020 14:57

And fell right into the elephant trap:

PM: Do you support Self-ID?
LM: Yes.
PM: So I can be a two-spirit penguin?
LM: Now you're being silly.

endofthelinefinally · 10/03/2020 14:51

She keeps going on about this trans child in her constituancy. I find that extremely worrying on so many levels. Especially when she is repeating the suicide myths.
She should be campaigning for mental health services.

DuLANGDuLANGDuLANG · 10/03/2020 14:41

I doubt she’s tweeting herself right now, it’ll just be a paid blue hair on her campaign team 😂

Justhadathought · 10/03/2020 14:40

She must have know what the questions were going to be? Surely she has some media help? Did she really think the Castor Semenya response was going to be a "gotya

She must surely also know therefore that much work has been done on this already - and the debate has been raging for quite some time with some very high profile successful female athletes involved.

Any 'commission' that the Labour party came up with at present wouldn't be worth the paper it was written on.

Next up........transitioning children; puberty blockers; radical hysterectomies before the age of 20......This is what transgenderism actually looks like in reality.

tobee · 10/03/2020 14:34

But this is how politicians use Twitter. They make a statement and act on those that agree with them. Sweep aside those that don't as "phobic" etc. Proving their point that they to fight all these beastly bigots even?

It's fucking lazy as well.

Justhadathought · 10/03/2020 14:33

Not once did she suggest that she wanted to protect women. Trans rights supersede women's rights every time.....and the whole TRA ideology makes that an imperative. TRA ideology has trans people as the most victimised, hence the most privileged in the intersectional hierarchy.

Lisa needs not to talk about her female constituents in domestic violence refuges ( her fall back " I care about women" stance), but about the girls and young women training with all of their energy and commitment to excel in their chosen sport - who then find their medals and their scholarships have been lost to male bodied people.

StandWithYou · 10/03/2020 14:33

I think interviewers are getting better at not letting people conflate issues - so stopping Nandy from conflating intersex and trans was good. Stopped Nandy in her tracks.

Loved it when PM took his earpiece out and kept on trying to get LN to answer.

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 10/03/2020 14:32

I wonder, that too, andy. Are some of these people so isolated from anyone not in their bubble that they think everyone is onside other than the people they're throwing out of the party? Presumably they have relatives, don't they talk to them? Cause if my granny was still alive and I'd run the "rapists in women's prisons" argument past her she'd have told me I'd lost my mind.

Datun · 10/03/2020 14:30

Why on earth did she bother to tweet about it? Is she really that divorced from reality?

She's delusional. No one is agreeing with her.

Did she think that piers' supporters would agree with him and her supporters would agree with her? Because they're not. Surely this must give pause for thought.

andyoldlabour · 10/03/2020 14:25

Nandy is getting hammered on twitter. Why on earth did she bother to tweet about it? Is she really that divorced from reality?
I can't see myself ever voting for Labour again.

twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1237373848355569665

CharlieParley · 10/03/2020 14:15

^ to hear one's own community's demands for a new privilege being enshrined in law criticised as excessive and an infringement on the rights of others,

EwwSprouts · 10/03/2020 14:15

Maguire backs Nandy. Oops that did not go to plan then.

She's now posted clip on Twitter! Insight where are you?twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1237373848355569665

CharlieParley · 10/03/2020 14:12

“The idea that you want to pit one group of people against the other, I think this is not good enough. It does have a real impact on people.”

Yes, Lisa, it does. And while it is undoubtedly upsetting to hear one's own community's demands for a new privilege being enshrined in law as excessive and an infringement on the rights of others, the impact on women and children has gone beyond mere upset into breaches of our human rights.

Violations of our safety, our livelihoods, our freedom of thought, speech, association and assembly, loss of jobs and opportunities, scholarships, awards and programs designed to redress inequalities, loss of privacy and dignity, and last but not least the loss of female-only therapeutic environments where we can recover from male violence.

The injuries to women and the women so injured are too many to count already, but Lisa isn't thinking of us when she says "this has a real impact on people".

Women are people, too, Lisa. And we vote.

LangClegsOpinionIsNoted · 10/03/2020 14:11

Absolutely agree the Express exaggerates, but that's good for the GC cause here. Clickbait gets clicks - that's a whole lot more people reading and, judging by the comments, also thinking 'wtaf?!'.

tobee · 10/03/2020 14:04

*Aligned with a crazy paranoid conspiracy theorist

tobee · 10/03/2020 14:03

I think interviewers etc need to go hard on the "assigned sex at birth" bollocks. Because it's basically coming from a crazy paranoid conspiracy theorist pov

Siameasy · 10/03/2020 14:01

Babies are “designated a sex” just had me so frustrated.
Piers Morgan is popular with blokes. This will peak people. All my colleagues are male and they’ve been sharing it.

Needmoresleep · 10/03/2020 13:57

Worth observing the other people on screen. They were not going to be caught smiling or anything, so a couple looked down and the man next to Nandy shot her the odd "wtf" look.

She must have know what the questions were going to be? Surely she has some media help? Did she really think the Castor Semenya response was going to be a "gotya"?

It is one of the more amazing clips I have seen. All would-be politicians should watch. I am looking forward to the LibDem leadership contest, and Layla Moran in Piers' hot seat.

endofthelinefinally · 10/03/2020 13:52

Actually, I think lots of men do take Piers seriously. I can't stand him, but it is good that this whole issue is at least being discussed on mainstream media.

Redshoeblueshoe · 10/03/2020 13:45

Maguire backs Namdy. Now I bet he wishes she'd stayed at home.

zanahoria · 10/03/2020 13:45

The Daily Express exagerates for clickbait but it was not a good interview and will look even worse in clips

I still think it could have been muc tougher

The obvious knock out question to her spiel about commisions etc was to ask her why she was so certain WPUK should be expelled. A reference to hundreds of women she wants to purgs at the rally would have been kicking her on the floor.

Notredamn · 10/03/2020 13:43

This is excellent but it's a shame Piers Morgan is, well...Piers Morgan. He hardly ever gets taken seriously thanks to being a general bigoted oaf. Just because he was right this time, doesn't mean anyone watching will give him any credit.

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