Labour's batshit opinions on women's rights

labour.org.uk/contact/policy-contact-form/

Use it to contact them to question / query their policy on women’s rights.

Crazy, isn't it? They refuse to listen, or read, and then say it hasn't been raised with them.

Longterm labour voter here but fucking hell. They're so desperately woke these days, i don't know how they haven't connected this with losing votes. Its almost like they exist solely to ensure the tories keep getting elected.

Can I ask what can be done about it?

I emailed the lancet & got a generic reply. I copied in my MP (Tory) & got a reply thanking me for sending me a copy my excellent email.

But what can I do to let labour & the other parties know that the exclusion of women’s rights is not acceptable. Unless they are your MP they don’t look at the correspondence I don’t think?

I’m not a dinosaur & I’ll be damned if some bigoted man should call me such simply because I want to be referred to as a woman.

This is not a party I would vote for any more - they frighten and enrage me in equal measures.

@QuentinBunbury

have noone to vote for

This is how I feel. I'm hoping that by the time we have to vote something has changed (wishful thinking no doubt ☹️)

My DP sent me this handy Twitter thread this morning (apols if already shared)

mobile.twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1442783035389325313?s=08

I’ve voted Labour all my life, my parents work for the NHS but I will vote Tory in the next election on this basis.

I never imagined ever saying that.

Those tweets really are depressing

They have no idea, do they? They put their political career, their public image, their need to be seen as “down with the kidz “ above everything else.

I already knew that most politicians had no integrity but the last few days have been so very eye-opening. I didn’t think my eyes could be opened further…

No way are Labour getting my vote.

Jess Phillips in her own words:

"I helped write the document that demanded changes in self ID. I literally was part of the group of MPs who wanted change. Spousal veto for example is awful"

twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1213887262414581761?s=20

Jess Phillips championing the removal of asking the consent of a woman before her marriage changes

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3787357-Jess-Phillips-championing-the-removal-of-asking-the-consent-of-a-woman-before-her-marriage-changes

As a lifelong Conservative voter, I should be rubbing my hands in glee at the Labour shitshow, which will lose them the women’s vote completely.
However, we need a strong functional opposition for our democratic system of government to work. Any party, including my own, becomes stale, and more dangerously unaccountable, after too many terms of unopposed office.
How many more elections must Labour lose before they drop the woke crap and go back to appealing to normal voters?

I will continue to vote in every election but only after considering individual candidates rather than the party they stand for. The Labour Party have been shocking this week with their refusal to ensure women’s safety to speak. Elevating one group of people above all other vulnerable groups. Shameful times for the Labour Party.

When the Tories are there for the taking, this is what will lose them the next election.
It's not about "hating trans people "; it's about hating loopholes that can be exploited by predators; it's about erasing words for women in the name of diversity but not doing it for men; it's about unfairness in sport; it's about calling people bigots for raising this.
Labour will lose.

I have been really shocked this week.with the number of Labour MPs who have called women dinosaurs, not supporting single sex spaces etc. Ripnutmeg Twitter posts are quite frightening when it is all put together. The reaction on the conference hall to the Labour Councillor who is a transwoman was a standing ovation to an over emotive spiel without any consideration that women may have some concerns or a different view was really illuminating. The Labour Party are lost to me for now.

I think I am going to have to abstain. I can't vote conservative due to the absolute shit show this country is in. I don't think I should have to reward them for stating basic biology.

However I can't vote Labour or lib dem either, because of this.
It ridiculous, I'm a politically engaged person, I ALWAYS vote. And I have noone to vote for

Labour has alienated some of its finest female MPs, Yvette Cooper, Margaret Beckett.
Others are being silenced after seeing the abuse and violent threats made against Rosie Duffield.

Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting,London)
Sarah Champion (Rotherham),
Diana Johnson ( Kingston upon Hull).

Where are they? Why don't they get to speak?

I've written to my local Labour party rep about how women are being silenced with threats and have had a standard response trotted out.

Complex issues, condemn bigotry......

But I believe Jess Phillips has done a lot of positive work to highlight the abuse of women. Not ready to throw her under a bus because of Keri. And my automatic go to would never be the Conservatives, ever. That goes agains every other principle I have and I believe in. Labour really have to do better IMO. Just because the cons aren't saying it doesn't mean they aren't thinking it. They have a very long history of whitewashing women's issues.

Lifelong Labour 🦖 dinosaur voter here.
40 years voting for Labour until 2019 GE when I knew I could no longer vote for them because of this issue.

Where I think they will go now? Half of the party will be hoping it just goes away, but the other half will double down.
The party as a whole will not change its stance on this, continuing to frame as trans rights, not women's rights.
I expect further weasel words about protecting single sex spaces but no clarification about their definition of single sex.

[quote Igneococcus]In the Times today:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/169d8faa-207c-11ec-8cb7-e60ba8dbca61?shareToken=a0bca657417d4b329fcd58fe0c2dda03[/quote]
How awful. The thought of Angela Rayner getting anywhere near the Labour leadership is horrifying.

Matt Chorley mightn't be the most invested in the issue Molly but to hear three adults calmly and sensibly going over the issue - and Janice speaking, given plenty chance to speak, and being heard, objectively - was such a relief.

No conflict of rights then, says Angela Rayner. That's alright then isn't it.