Labour reject Karen Ingala-Smith's membership application

DANA VITALOSOVA 4W article:

'The Striking Similarities Between the Treatment of Modern Gender Critical Feminists and British Suffragettes'
(extract)
"Women’s political homelessness
This year, Labour members of parliament Lisa Nandy, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Dawn Butler and others have signed a 12-point pledge card by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights that also describes some organisations including Woman’s Place UK as “trans-exclusionary hate groups”. Labour MPs have also pledged to “Accept that trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are non-binary.”

Beside MPs, 3400 Labour party members have signed this pledge or supported gender ideology in a different way, as have members of other major British political parties, namely the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, and the Conservatives. Thus, women who support sex-based rights for women find themselves politically homeless.

British Suffragettes faced the same issue. The most famous of them, Emmeline Pankhurst, first got disillusioned after joining the Liberal party. In her biography of the Suffragette, June Purvis writes:

“Emmeline had never forgiven the Liberal statesman William Ewart Gladstone for his opposition to women’s suffrage and was only too glad to sever her links with the Liberal Party which she saw as a men’s party that used the talents of Liberal women for its own ends.”
Disappointed with the Liberals, she joined the newly established Labour party, “hoping that it would be a vehicle for improving the many disadvantages suffered by poor women and, in particular, that it would advocate the parliamentary vote for her sex.”

Again, she was disenchanted as, with the exception of Keir Hardie, Labourist men were, on the whole, opposed to women’s suffrage.

Her disillusionment with Liberals and Labourists led her to disengage from both. As leader of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), she demanded WSPU members to not be affiliated with any political party." (continues)

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The message from Labour here is, yet again, this: No women, you are not allowed to talk about women's issues.

The Labour party has become an irrelevance. Jeremy Corbyn has, even, now descended to claiming that the financial measures put in place to support the population, as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, are a 'victory' for Socialism and the Labour party.

What on earth has happened to the Labour party? The SNP seems gripped by a similar madness too.

Absolute fuckimg idiots. Dont know what else to say

Absolutely brilliant article. Nothing, however fucking stupid, that the labour party do surprises me any more though.

Labour has a problem; its not Socialism, its neo liberal identity politics.

When the former editor of the Torygraph makes more sense than Labour HQ you know that the world has turned upside down.

What was pygmy instincts supposed to say?

It is becoming increasingly clear that Labour is determined to be the main male-entitlement party in the uk.

Whenever the term “gender-identity” is used, just substitute with “male-entitlement”.

Incandescent over this. It’s spurred me on to clean the kitchen, so it has been positive in some way!

Labour member all of my adult life. I’ve been hanging on, although spoilt my ballot at election, to see if things get any better under Starmer.

However I’m not sure I can bring myself to vote for them ever again.
I keep hearing that the only way to change organisations is from the inside, but I’ve had enough now. I am right on the point of cancelling membership and sending what I would normally spend and a bit more to Karen.

They don't want to be elected.

This!!! They are irrelevant, sadly!

Actually, that's a thought. Given that the new leader is in next week, IIRC, is the Gen Sec acting fast now? I saw another person on Twitter whose application had been turned down for saying last year on social media that he would be voting Green - and that was during a period when he wasn't a Labour Party member.

They don't want to be elected. That would need votes from people with impure thoughts, and it's not worth it.

Not enough eyerolls in the whole world for this. I wonder if things will improve under Starmer, if he takes over.

As gender identity is not a protected characteristic how can Labour justify this stance?

Labour seem determined to remain unelectable to anyone who lives in the world of material realities - but what does that matter when they can remain sanctimoniously ideologically pure.

Fucking eejits!

Didn't she defend say that Labour were the best party for women in her recent MN webchat?

They don't deserve her

Thanks again to James Kirkup for another blistering article.

A political party turning away women like Karen Ingala-Smith is a party overrun with men with pygmy instincts for politics and human understanding.

Where from here? That is the real question.

Disgraceful

Labour ban founder of Counting Dead Women for being able to define who she is counting. Pointless getting angry about this, the party has become the stuff of satire and is making itself more irrelevant by the day.

What idiots they are. Karen Ingala-Smith would be such an amazing asset to the Labour Party. She's worth 100 Rebecca Long-Baileys or Angela Rayners.