Tory party GRA

Time and again people are surprised that Tories have the best record on Women and on BAME representation. Why? Tories want people to do well, regardless of colour/sex/sexuality - that’s literally their aim.

Has anyone any thoughts on the Womens Equality Party?

I can understand deciding who to vote for based on a single issue. My voting intentions are now based on a single issue- no to Scottish Independence. I will vote for any party who can keep the SNP candidate out. I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem to that purpose.

I was for many , many years a staunch Labour supporter but I can't see me going back. There are so many vile Labour mps and declared Labour supporters now.

I'm not just referring to gender critical issues but the hard left totalitarianism and intolerance of any view point which doesn't accord with theirs.

Starmer should have sacked Lloyd Russel- Moyle and before that Russell- Moyle's contempt for the democratic process, which he displayed on election night ,shows he is unfit to be an MP. He also seems to have gone unchallenged on anti- semitic ravings. How many more Russell-Moyles are there?

I think we'll have to wait and see, as we don't know yet what Truss will propose, nor what Labour's response will be.

The SDP may be resurgent to some extent (the 3,000 votes they got in the last election was their highest since 1992) but they don't currently have even a single local councillor... still, perhaps this could change if they continue to gain support. The SDP to me seems much more centre than left. If anything some of its figures like Rod Liddle (who voted Tory in 2017) have a reputation for leaning rightwards, although Giles Fraser is left-of-centre and is a member.

I agree, the resurgent SDP is looking promising - at the moment. I’m hoping they don’t blow it.

So far the SDP are the only left wing party to have a sensible view on protecting trans rights and women's rights. I hope they take off in their new incarnation, and have joined them to show my appreciation of their policies. sdp.org.uk/policies/ I know some people want to judge them and find them guilty by association for stuff that happened in the past, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. After all Labour, the Lib Dems and the Green party have already said they don't want the votes of non-men who refuse to identify as c*s.

I have also written to Liz Truss thanking her for daring to stand against the insanity and stop the undermining of sex based rights.

Parliament rises on the 22nd July. Caroline Nokes tweeted about the response to the GRA consultation saying Liz Truss was 'bringing forward her response' but as far as I am aware, according to Liz Truss, it was always scheduled to be brought out before the end of this parliamentary session.

So she has just added to the confusion really. I think she meant 'bringing forward' as in it being presented to the House, but her tweet is unclear.

I don't think I could ever vote Tory but for some it is single issue, like Brexit, and I have some empathy with that mindset as I just love Liz Truss, I'm really grateful she is doing what she's doing.

For the twitter screenshots:
I would never vote for anyone who cannot tell me what a woman is. Labour, LibDems, Greens or WEP, if the Tories are the only ones who do know that a woman is an Adult Human Female than I may have no other choice.

I'd quite happily chew off my own left foot if this were the only viable alternative to voting Tory.

But then I am not and arguably will never be a single issue voter.

I'm with OP that, on the GRA alone, the Tories don't look too horrid right now. But also, they look and indeed are and have always been on issues that affect disadvantaged groups in general and women in particular on a systemic level.

I, for one, shall not be throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'll hold my nose, vote something vaguely tenable in general terms as one does and will be lobbying the hell out of these people regarding issues on which I disagree with the platform.

I'm not saying my approach is the objectively correct or the only one. I'm saying that this comes down to relative weighting of issues and that I, personally, am too much of a generalist to disregard an approximate shitton of issues on which I vehemently disagree in favour of one which I find personally important and a party mildly doesn't fly in my face about.

OP I feel exactly the same. I’m politically homeless. Lily Madigan was the beginning of the end for me. I was agog/furious/scared at watching JC, LN, RL-B and AR dismantle women’s rights and cast us out as transphobes.

But if the tories continue to back peddle and put an end to this shit show ( which they actually started) I’ll vote for them. I have to put my daughters first

I would never vote Tory

The next election isn't for years anyway is it?

Anyone have any idea when an announcement might be made on the GRA? When does recess start?

Only problem is that the Tories have a lot of other policies which hit women hardest.

I feel completely in the wilderness politically.

They and the SDP are the only parties listening.

There's a lot of us feel the same