Lammy… again!

Dear me, he's thick as mince. My cat has more intelligence.

Jesus, Mary and the wee donkey. This is the calibre of the opposition? No wonder the Tories keep getting in.

It comes back to the same point about the changing language on screening publicity. If a highly privileged, educated man has no clue what a cervix is, how can a poorly educated girl/ woman, or one who doesn't speak much English, be expected to understand that she is a
"Person with a cervix".

On the law firm bit the post above is spot on. We are not for the most part criminal lawyers. The skill set is wrong. And most firms already do a fair bit of pro Bono work, supporting law clinics for people representing themselves in the civil courts because legal aid was taken away.

I went to school with him. He peddles this "born and brought up on the mean streets of Tottenham" nonsense, but he was actually a full boarder at The Kings Cathedral School in Peterborough, and was a chorister in the Cathedral choir. I have a cassette tape of him singing "Old Father Time" in a high soprano solo, from a school play in 1985. Barely went home apart from 3 times a year for 7 years. Then off to Oxford and then Harvard. When exactly was he down living the rough life in the ghetto, that he bases his politics on?

(Sorry that was just an aside from your thread) :-)

Wow just wow. Isn't it just amazing how it's always transwomen that are the default never transmen. Thinking about that it isn't really, just a different take on the default male.
David there is no hiding place from that.

FFS

Someone needs to give all of these politicians a crash course in anatomy and brief them as to exactly what happens when someone undergoes a surgical transition, and what organs they acquire/lose during the procedure. It’s embarrassing. And why don’t the broadcasters and writers get a properly qualified medic on to explain it (and correct folk when they go off piste)?

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Lanny also had the 'brilliant' idea yesterday that city solicitors should each give 35 free hours to help get rape convictions up.

I'm all in favour of a windfall tax on city firm profits which would be used to support legal aid firms but Lammy's idea is completely ridiculous:

1. very few city solicitors do criminal work and when they do it is corporate or regulatory (much of which doesn't go to court). A mergers and acquisitions specialist is going to be less than useless on a criminal trial;

2. 35 hours across the year will not provide continuity of support so potentially victims having to tell their story over and over again with no progress;

3. criminal law is a vital part of a functioning legal system which should be properly funded, not passed over to rich kids on holiday.

Discussion in parliament, what discussion?

Labour are taking up the space where an opposition should be

Exactly right. They are a dying party - deservedly so.

I woke up to him on LBC shocking that a senior well educated person can say such rubbish. Surely someone needs have a word and explain what a cervix is. It’s not just the dead end of a vagina !

Lammy's not in government, thank god. Or not technically in government, the fact Labour are taking up the space where an opposition should be is another matter.