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what's happening in Rosie Duffield's office?

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CarolJenkyns · 14/10/2020 16:30

www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/14/rosie-duffield-mp-labour-transphobia-row-staffer-quits-resignation-canterbury/

Not sure what to make of this to be honest.

OP posts:
FairFriday · 16/10/2020 08:45

More Pravda

HermioneMakepeace · 16/10/2020 08:40

Pink News is the Daily Star of the gay press.

Grin
ChattyLion · 16/10/2020 08:32

Just linking to Starmer comment for posterity.. so disappointing and misrepresents the perpetrators and the scale of what’s happening to women- death and rape threats are more than ‘toxic’ as well he knows, it’s happening to his female MPs. Shame on him.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4051954-Keir-Starmer-interview-responds-to-transphobia-in-the-Labour-Party

highame · 16/10/2020 08:24

So, if Rosie does resign as chair of Women's PLP, which MtF gets the job, any ideas?

GMB love trans rights, they'll be able to say the sexism is all untrue because TWAW

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 16/10/2020 08:16

Yeah basically in a tweet RD said that another person who was giving her shit had a photo of the 'resigner' (a picture in which the woman was wearing) as their profile picture, therefore she 'doxxed' her. I guess some people have the kind of tech where you can input a picture of a person and facial recognition will identify them, but she didn't reveal the woman's name, SM account or anything like that?

The misogynist like the TRAs, the GMB, Owen Jones (who has done another one of his pile ons on Twitter) have been baying for her blood ever since she committed the heinous crime of liking a tweet that said that only women have cervixes, so the tweet about the photo was a gift to them.

Really hope Keir stands firm against this absolutely grim batshittery. The last election proved that this Momentum minority led by Owen and Ash is nowhere near enough to win an election, Keir must know that appeasing that lot by sacking Rosie would make his party a laughing stock. It would be nice if he actually condemned the abuse she is getting though but that's obviously too much to ask.

ChattyLion · 16/10/2020 07:58

Ok have I understood this right? They leap to defend a staff member’s risk of being savaged over social media but they don’t mention the reason that they think that could happen is that the staffer’s boss is currently being savaged over social media, by TRAs purely for having an opinion.
The glaring problem is that they haven’t condemned the online harassment and called for that to stop.. they just condemn the MP for recognising someone online, whose face is being used in a profile picture by another person?

It’s also implicitly drawing a completely mendacious equivalency between the disgusting behaviour of men’s sexual entitlement campaigners and gender critical feminists. Much like that ludicrous statement by Kier Starmer to the BBC.
This is not two equal sides behaving similarly, never has been. The rape and death threats, the harassment are made by men to women. They’ll do it to women in their own side just as freely if they step out of line.

Butterer · 15/10/2020 23:56

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nepeta · 15/10/2020 23:48

The GMB tweet seems to argue that Duffield outed a member of her staff in social media? What is that all about?

HecatesCats · 15/10/2020 20:16

[quote Kit19]Just a reminder that an independent report found that the GMB was institutionally sexist

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54003606[/quote]
Thanks Kit. Some highlights:

The report's author, Karon Monaghan QC, said "bullying, misogyny, cronyism and sexual harassment are endemic".

Ms Monaghan said women were "underrepresented throughout the GMB's ranks", with branches "often organised in a way that deters women members' participation".

She added: "Fundamental change is required if the GMB is to meet its promise to women in the GMB and to women in society more widely."

Barbara Plant, who has been the GMB's national president since 2018, said the report made "sad and difficult reading".
She said: "On behalf of GMB, I apologise to all those who have experienced sexual harassment or bullying within the union.
"It's clear that real and lasting change is needed for us to become a safe and inclusive place for all."

ArabellaScott · 15/10/2020 20:12

I call on GMB to just bore itself out of existence with its wildly visible entrenched misogyny.

EvenSupposing · 15/10/2020 19:17

[quote Iamanaubergine]From the GMB Members Staff Twitter today:

Our Branch has unanimously passed a motion to condemn the actions of Rosie Duffield MP, and express solidarity with our member who resigned.

We’ll be writing to
@labourwhips
and
@UKLabour
to request a formal investigation, & call for Rosie to resign as Chair of Women’s PLP.

mobile.twitter.com/GMB_MPs_Staff[/quote]
I bet that's gone down like a shit in a teapot chez Starmer.

ArabellaScott · 15/10/2020 18:46

@InflamatoryWrit

if you are here Rosie, well done for standing up to the bullying

I second that

I do, too, but I have to say it feels like we're having a seance.

'If you can hear us, Rosie, knock three times'.

Anyway, OP, that's a PinkNews link!! And I clicked on it, bloody hell.

Kit19 · 15/10/2020 17:38

Just a reminder that an independent report found that the GMB was institutionally sexist

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54003606

FairFriday · 15/10/2020 17:15

‘Passed a motion’ anyone else just think ‘yup. A big pile of poo’?

wellbehavedwomen · 15/10/2020 17:14

[quote Iamanaubergine]From the GMB Members Staff Twitter today:

Our Branch has unanimously passed a motion to condemn the actions of Rosie Duffield MP, and express solidarity with our member who resigned.

We’ll be writing to
@labourwhips
and
@UKLabour
to request a formal investigation, & call for Rosie to resign as Chair of Women’s PLP.

mobile.twitter.com/GMB_MPs_Staff[/quote]
Ah, the GMB, who were recently found to have a structural commitment to the sex-based abuse of women.

They're consistent. I'll give them that.

CaraDuneRedux · 15/10/2020 17:06

Of course Starmer knows - but does he know how many votes it's losing him?

Mine doesn't matter - solidly Labour, could stick a red rosette on a heffalump and it would get in. But there must be voters in the Red Wall constituencies who might get his attention.

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 15/10/2020 17:02

All these fucking woke idiots, including Owen Fucking Jones, who are writing whole books and scratching their heads about how we ended up with the current shower of shite in government. Whilst also currently calling for a female Labour MP to get a metaphorical public lynching, essentially because she said that only women have cervixes.

When is the penny gonna drop lads?

wellbehavedwomen · 15/10/2020 16:59

So the the only women worth listening to on this topic are male women?

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Caroncanta · 15/10/2020 16:56

Yes of course he knows. Don't think he's ever supported women in labour on the issue of sex based rights. He doesn't want to rock the boat with all the rage and anger he'd get from the woksters. And maybe he's just not interested in the safety and rights of half the population. Labour is pretty much finished. I doubt they'll ever get in again in my life time.

FairFriday · 15/10/2020 16:52

He knows - he’s not an idiot. He doesn’t even come across as particularly passionate or principled. Not sure if he is just scared to rock the boat or is just hoping it will all go away (like Audible).

CaraDuneRedux · 15/10/2020 16:50

Is it time for a letter writing campaign to Keir Starmer, explaining that this is what lost them my vote at the last election, and will continue to do so unless he does something about these fuckwits bullying women out of the Labour Party?

Butterer · 15/10/2020 16:42

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Caroncanta · 15/10/2020 16:36

Oh of course heather has. She is a man's rights activist, now I wonder why? If it because she has no understanding of what a woman actually is? But would like to secure women's sex based rights for herself? Hence burning the actual woman.

slug · 15/10/2020 16:29

I see the fragrant Heather Peto has stepped up to condemn the witch. On Prick News of course twitter.com/heatherisone/status/1316688583080714241

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