WPUK have released a financial statement showing money received by source and how it is spent

[quote jj1968]@StillAFeminist

Your response to someone thinking £5000 is a lot of money was basically ha ha I'd better not tell you my daily rate. £5000 is what sickness benefit claimants are expected to live on for a year. It's a lot of money to a lot of us, and I was in criticising your flippancy not the fact you have a successful career.[/quote]
Yes, it’s a lot of money to an individual.

Which is why we all crowd fund WPUK and others in (mostly) 10s and 20s, so they have the ability to spend 5 grand on legal fees when necessary.

Many (most?) of the GC legal crowdfunders have raised over 50k each (and counting) so we are well aware how much it costs to employ expert advice.

I’m afraid we’ll need to hold off until jj gets here to make an arbitration on whether in fact YOU are the shady right wing cabal, clymene.

I think that's a fair summary Sophocles

I just want to correct something in my last post - by 'some of the money' I didn't mean I'd given WPUK more than £5,000. Just in case I'm suspected of being a one woman evil right wing cabal.

Honestly we need a fire extinguisher in here for the amount of times someone’s pants are on fire.

If you’re looking for consistency, oxyiz, then I’m afraid you’re in for a disappointment

The main issue seems to be nasty entitled rich women using their ill gotten gains that they’ve both earned off the backs of the exploited, and been given gratis by shady right wing types through donations to completely different organisations, to set up a shoddy structure for unknown nefarious ends, which they’ve managed to fuck up despite spaffing vast sums on unneeded lawyers. They need reported immediately to the HMRC for not paying taxes they don’t owe. Any unsubstantiated accusation can be flung at them, but they should on no account attempt to prevent this, or defend themselves.

I think that’s about the sum of it.

JJ, our village football club turnsover more than WPUK.

Perhaps you can stop digging yourself a hole now.

Wait a minute - so now transactivists think we're all super rich? Then why did they all say things were funded by religious extremists?

(FWIW I don't earn much but even I know 5k is not much in legal fees.)

How kind of you to worry where hard working women's donations have gone @jj1968

I'm perfectly happy if they've used some of the money I've given them in taking proportionate legal advice. Just for the record.

[quote jj1968]@StillAFeminist

Your response to someone thinking £5000 is a lot of money was basically ha ha I'd better not tell you my daily rate. £5000 is what sickness benefit claimants are expected to live on for a year. It's a lot of money to a lot of us, and I was in criticising your flippancy not the fact you have a successful career.[/quote]
And I was pointing out it isn’t that many days of professional advice

WPUK think they are perfectly entitled to send out threatening legal letters threatening to sue for defamation when they have no grounds to do so as they cannot be legally defamed. They think they should have the right to sue, or at least use legal threats to silence criticism, but not be subject to the same pressures or accountability themselves.

The individuals running WPUK can be defamed, if they are associated with the allegations made against the association. Similarly, the individuals running WPUK can be sued if defamatory statements are made by WPUK.

HTH. Yes, I am a lawyer.

[quote jj1968]@StillAFeminist

Your response to someone thinking £5000 is a lot of money was basically ha ha I'd better not tell you my daily rate. £5000 is what sickness benefit claimants are expected to live on for a year. It's a lot of money to a lot of us, and I was in criticising your flippancy not the fact you have a successful career.[/quote]
Methinks someone doth protest too much grin]

They're still exploitative muppets afaik.

(Formerly StillAFeminist)

@StillAFeminist

Your response to someone thinking £5000 is a lot of money was basically ha ha I'd better not tell you my daily rate. £5000 is what sickness benefit claimants are expected to live on for a year. It's a lot of money to a lot of us, and I was in criticising your flippancy not the fact you have a successful career.

Them nasty witches, thinking they're entitled to defend themselves against lies! Why won't they just fucking stay quiet whilst we're trying to burn them, dammit!

I’m resolutely non apologetic for being a woman who has worked hard and achieved professional success as well as worked hard at being a mum and a grandmother

Indeed StillAFeminist I think Rebecca West best summed up that type of misogynistic thinking when she said I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat

Some people would like women to be silent and kept away from influence and the public /professional space. It's not often seen on here but at the moment.....

Aside from showcasing what a tight ship WPUK and how well they are using available funds, this thread is pure comedy gold. 🤣

💪 to all you no-nonsense (awful harpies) professional women for explaining how it is out in the real world, as opposed to the conspiracy theorist whackjob Twittersphere. 👌

Is that the same David Paisley whose letter denouncing some "horrible mean women who won't shut up " was signed by some people who didn't even know that such a letter existed?

I’m resolutely non apologetic for being a woman who has worked hard and achieved professional success as well as worked hard at being a mum and a grandmother

The delightful David Paisley is ranting about Lush tonight .. lining them up for his next 'campaign.' The delicious irony it being Lush.

If you use solicitor's letters to request your rights are respected, rather than a baying twitter mob, you are a right wing, bigoted, wealthy, wrong side of history, dark money, wrong crowd, nazi, kkk, witch. So ner.