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Help - who can we vote for this week?

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thinkingaboutLangCleg · 03/05/2021 06:55

I have no idea who to vote for in the council, mayoral and police commissioner elections this week. The only parties I know that support women’s rights are the SDP and the Communist Party, and they have no candidates standing locally.

I thought I’d seen a thread about women gathering local information around the UK but I can’t find it. There’s nothing about eg keeping public facilities single-sex in any local candidate’s publicity.

Any ideas, anyone? Today I’ll try and grab time to email every local candidate asking what they would do to protect single-sex facilities and child safeguarding.

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LouHotel · 03/05/2021 08:42

Spoiling ballot - I can't bring myself to vote for the local Conservative.

In the general the con candidate is more central so will like vote blue for the first time then.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/05/2021 08:28

@SolitaryBee

I don’t understand how Alba can say they support women’s rights and in the same breath tell us to vote SNP for the constituency.
Because for independence they need SNP to win all of the constituency seats.

And if the SNP don't win the constituency seats they will get the list seats instead, pushing ALBA out.

SquirmOfEels · 03/05/2021 08:09

For London Mayor I'm voting Binhead as a protest vote.

There are GC candidates in most elections, also if that's your sine qua non issue, then you'll have to vote hard right

SolitaryBee · 03/05/2021 08:08

I don’t understand how Alba can say they support women’s rights and in the same breath tell us to vote SNP for the constituency.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/05/2021 08:06

@Sexnotgender

In Scotland and only Alba support women’s rights and they’re only standing on the list. I think I’ll spoil my constituency vote.
Also the Tories aren't too bad on women's rights.
Sexnotgender · 03/05/2021 07:29

In Scotland and only Alba support women’s rights and they’re only standing on the list. I think I’ll spoil my constituency vote.

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thinkingaboutLangCleg · 03/05/2021 07:26

Thanks for introducing me to the Gender Recognition Act Reform/ Repeal Group at gcritical.org/category/the-gra-group/ , TransSloth! A new bookmark in my ever-growing Feminism list. I’ll look out for her update on the blog.

I feel the same way about the Greens, Grumpy. But frankly I’d vote for anyone who supported women’s rights.

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transsloth · 03/05/2021 07:16

Sarah Phillimore's GRARG group have contacted all the PCC candidates. There's going to be a blog sharing the responses, not seen it yet though.

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 03/05/2021 06:58

I'm planning on writing a little sticker saying that I'd vote LibDem if they cared about the rights of natal women. It will save time in the ballot booth.

I might just scrawl on the ballot paper, though.

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