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ListeningQuietly · 28/01/2021 16:34

Remember that although the Tories accept what women are, we are expected to know our place ....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55844367

CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/01/2021 16:33

I might have to re-join just so I can resign my membership again... for the same fucking reason!!!!

Gaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!

SunsetBeetch · 28/01/2021 16:30

[quote ListeningQuietly]theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/27/starmer-labour-failing-to-win-back-tory-voters-england-may-polls[/quote]
Gosh how surprising, eh?

xxyzz · 28/01/2021 16:29

I was well disposed towards Starmer compared to Corbyn and I don't believe he believes in this for a second. But he needs to have more control over his party machine - this is atrocious.

xxyzz · 28/01/2021 16:27

It is simply untrue to claim that this is within both the letter and spirit of the Equality Act - it is neither.

Is this going to need a legal case to establish that it is not? Or just mass resignation of female party members and losing another election?

Winesalot · 28/01/2021 16:25

[quote nauticant]It looks like this is from 2019:

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191030215337/labour.org.uk/about/how-we-work/nec-statement-women-shortlists-womens-officers-minimum-quotas-women/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20191030215337/labour.org.uk/about/how-we-work/nec-statement-women-shortlists-womens-officers-minimum-quotas-women/[/quote]
Thanks Nauticant.

Winesalot · 28/01/2021 16:23

Thanks for posting. It does make their intentions even more clear I think.

cheeseismydownfall · 28/01/2021 16:22

I wish I was a Labour party member so that I could resign over this travesty.

Jetatyeovilaerodrome · 28/01/2021 16:22

I don't get it. I just do. Not. Get. It.

What are they thinking?

merrymouse · 28/01/2021 16:19

do they really think this is the way to win back those voters who deserted them or voters from the Tories?

Starmer does, but it's less clear whether the NEC is behind him.

nauticant · 28/01/2021 16:18

It looks like this is from 2019:

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191030215337/labour.org.uk/about/how-we-work/nec-statement-women-shortlists-womens-officers-minimum-quotas-women/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20191030215337/labour.org.uk/about/how-we-work/nec-statement-women-shortlists-womens-officers-minimum-quotas-women/

Kit19 · 28/01/2021 16:15

god they really are in a mess

do they really think this is the way to win back those voters who deserted them or voters from the Tories?

still i guess they're not worried about the votes of biological women as we were told last year we werent welcome if we didnt think men were also women

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fakenina · 28/01/2021 16:14

Its not just womens shortlists. They are tallking about amendments to the equility act to include gender, something similar to what Biden has done. Basically erraising woman as a legal catogory.

Even Corbyn did not do this?

I wonder if there willbe a mass resignation campaign.

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nauticant · 28/01/2021 16:14

I raised my eyebrows at the "you go along with this, or else" vibe. But they're being blind to the third option, people simply walking away.

merrymouse · 28/01/2021 16:10

This is completely incoherent.

They don't seem to understand any of the structural reasons that justify AWS in the first place.

ListeningQuietly · 28/01/2021 16:08

theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/27/starmer-labour-failing-to-win-back-tory-voters-england-may-polls

bourbonne · 28/01/2021 16:05

This and Liz Truss are making a Tory out of me. Never, ever thought I'd say it.

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fakenina · 28/01/2021 16:04

Read to the end. Its depressing.

I wonder if they are taking their lead from Biden?

Thank god Labour have no chance of winning an election (and this is a member speaking here!)

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