Rosie Duffield thank you

Thanks Ignecoccus, very pleased robust language is being used to describe these people. Rosie is indeed being terrorised.

The front page that I found online uses the same headline as the current online one.

Link:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7031598a-18a1-11ec-90af-743585f1287c?shareToken=f24be1ed1b768067ed1e08523cd62783

Comments now starting to come through.

Wow they’ve changed the headline, calling these vile people “extremists”. Very pleased to see it. I wonder what it says in the print version?
Apologies I can’t seem to be able to do a link but this is the HL now.

“Speaker’s anger as extremists terrorise Labour MP Rosie Duffield*

A tale of two female politicians:

Liz Truss speaking on
@NickFerrariLBC

"Women do have vaginas, Nick."
www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrari/liz-truss-defends-student-who-faces-disciplinary-action-for-saying-women-have-va/

Boris Johnson promotes Liz Truss to Foreign Secretary.

In response to an American cancer society's tweet about screening for individuals (sic) with a cervix, Piers Morgan tweets 'Do you mean women?' which Rosie Duffield had the temerity to like, causing a pile on...
Rosie Duffield then tweeted "I'm a 'transphobe' for knowing that only women have a cervix...?!"

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rosie-duffield-labour-mp-cervix-women-backlash-a4514321.html

For this - and because she won't capitulate - Rosie Duffield can't attend her own party conference because her party leader, Keir Starmer, never steps in to defend her from those who troll her from within the party and she considers her physical safety to be at risk.

So ridiculously depressing that, in 2021, the current Labour Party has seemingly no grasp of class analysis and pretends not to know what a woman is and will not move to provide safety for a female MP - and yet they expect women to vote for them. No thank you.

Rosie Duffield

My comment has been pending for hours now wtf?

Hopeless Starmer doesn't need to be sending texts! He needs to employ as many security guards to ensure that all his MPs are safe to attend conference and remove the passes for every single member (including the misogynists in the Lords) who has issued verbal, physical, sexual or death threats towards any MP or woman. Or condoned them.

Until he finds his moral compass and evidently lacking personal courage the party will continue to be a dangerous place for woman.

I’ve tried to reply. My comment is awaiting censorship.

Lots of recommends…. Anyone else want to put their names down too, with their opinions or thoughts on this issue? 😁

He realises no one else seems able to reply.
What a shit show. Hopefully the times will go to a different moderating model soon.

Apologies, Arabella, I overlooked the text. I'm sure that reassured Rosie that she has her party leader's fullest support.

Whaitwhat23 Here's a politican who is experiencing this trolling and her safety is compromised, to the extent she cannot attend this event. The people attending will be signing a pledge to 'crack down' on trolling etc but the Labour Party as a whole haven't made a statement to condemn the trolling against Duffield? It's only been individual party members?v Have I got that right?

This is a different event it is a special conference in Chorley for Heads of Parliament from the G7 Nations not the Labour Party Conference and the Speakers at this conference are the ones that will sign the pledge.

The Labour Party leader is a shameful disgrace.

The moderating company will be in a meeting fretting about how to allow views to be posted on that article that might support Rosie and not bend the knee sufficiently deeply to the trans taliban (I think that's what the magnificent Julie Bindel calls them)

It reflects so badly on Labour

Wow I didn’t realise they’d actually turned off the comments on Janice’s piece! Wtf

Keir Starmer's failure to support Rosie Duffield is absolutely shameful. Disgusting that it has fallen to the Speaker to raise concerns.

My comment is being moderated and awaiting approval!

I've managed to see one comment and it's rather cheering -

'Patrick Jolly
16M AGO

Owen Jones is a craven disgrace!

And Rosie Duffield is perfectly entitled to speak her views in an open society.

Shame on the white male misogynists.
(Edited)'

'It is understood the Speakers at the conference will sign a pledge to try to ensure the safety of elected politicians and crack down on social media platforms to prevent trolling.'

Here's a politican who is experiencing this trolling and her safety is compromised, to the extent she cannot attend this event. The people attending will be signing a pledge to 'crack down' on trolling etc but the Labour Party as a whole haven't made a statement to condemn the trolling against Duffield? It's only been individual party members?v Have I got that right?

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I think this article is getting a lot of comments, more sunlight, the better and shame on all those in her party and other parties who don’t stand up for her.

“For the first time in my life, having been an ambassador for a gender-balanced 50:50 parliament, I would hesitate to encourage other women to come into politics,” she said. “I would have to really think about what I was asking them to do, and putting people into this position when they are going to be on the front line of some pretty shitty abuse ... it wears you down. I’m not going to pretend it doesn’t.”

Fucking hell, that's appalling.

All the comments are being held at the moment. I suspect they're in a bit of a dilemma - having suddenly hidden the many hundreds of comments under Janice Turner's article, they're faced with the same issues about free speech being raised again. The Times have outsourced the moderation of their articles to a USA company who don't have the same values as the paper about free speech so they end up looking like idiots with some of their inconsistent decisions.

Still says people typing