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Tommy Sheridan supports women's rights

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ArabellaScott · 29/11/2021 12:31

Blast from the past for many Scots, here! The well-known right wing personality Tommy Sheridan has tweeted his support for ForWomen Scotland.

twitter.com/citizentommy/status/1465063814391599109

Talking about an upcoming meeting of ForWomenScotland, Tommy tweets that he expects it to be:

'...informative and helpful to those of us who still believe in biology, equality and women's rights'

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JaneSmith1989 · 30/11/2021 15:17

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KittenKong · 30/11/2021 08:49

‘Does not compute’ or... when other parties get squillions from business, pharma and US zillionaires then it’s hard to understand that ‘normal folks’ pull their fingers get and get digging. Sorry but buying a cookie from a coffee shop that donates to a group isn’t doing your social duty...

PurgatoryOfPotholes · 30/11/2021 07:57

I am astounded that women discussing where to donate our own tenners to best effect was interpreted as evidence that these crowdfunders aren't, er, crowd-funded by individual women.

How does this work?

KittenKong · 30/11/2021 07:57

So how is it that gnarly old Scots men know what a woman is (and luckily they can say it) but their kids haven’t a clue?

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ArabellaScott · 30/11/2021 06:44

Oh, gosh.

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Rightsraptor · 30/11/2021 06:08

India did not have a good day yesterday.

HirplesWithHaggis · 30/11/2021 02:27

Terrorists! Grin

PurgatoryOfPotholes · 30/11/2021 00:37

@HirplesWithHaggis

mobile.twitter.com/ForwomenScot/status/1465408469670973447

Does India Willoughby read MN? Grin

Yes. Got quite exercised about the gardening references in one thread

twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1455976945741611020?t=447_kn4sUEn6TQQ2S3LaJg&s=19

HirplesWithHaggis · 29/11/2021 23:59

mobile.twitter.com/ForwomenScot/status/1465408469670973447

Does India Willoughby read MN? Grin

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ArabellaScott · 29/11/2021 17:00

@Rheia1983

Is this where we need a defense against the dark arts course?
The reverse, perhaps. Wink
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WarriorN · 29/11/2021 16:31

In Dino costume.

WarriorN · 29/11/2021 16:29

Or maybe...

Rheia1983 · 29/11/2021 16:23

Is this where we need a defense against the dark arts course?

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ArabellaScott · 29/11/2021 15:32

... a matriarchal coup. Sheridan found himself talking publicly about witches and dark arts.

Cripes.

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WarriorN · 29/11/2021 15:19

I wonder if we know what stance the women mentioned in the article take on trans issues?

WarriorN · 29/11/2021 15:18

"The time has come to rid the left of male misogynists who view women as appendages,"

Well, that's going well. Not.

Grant, the former women and equality spokesperson for the SSP, was at the meeting in 2004. She says that Sheridan decided his best form of attack was to pretend that a political plot by feminists was afoot. "Seemingly the women in the party wanted to get rid of him by means of a matriarchal coup. Sheridan found himself talking publicly about witches and dark arts."

Grant was accused of wanting to "expose him" – she effectively tried to "kill his unborn child and pregnant wife" – when she refused to lie for him in court. "Tommy called us 'scabs' in a national newspaper. Whenever we would go to meetings we would be shouted at and verbally abused by some male supporters," she says

Hmm.

KimikosNightmare · 29/11/2021 14:47

Just in case anyone isn't aware of who Tommy Sheridan is.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/28/tommy-sheridan-perjury-sexism.

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ArabellaScott · 29/11/2021 14:21

I was highlighting his political stance, Kimiko.

I'm not sure of his popularity, but I think it's interesting that people on the left are increasingly coming out in support of women's rights. It does show that this is an issue that crosses political divides.

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Endpress · 29/11/2021 14:01

Yeah I think that’s a good tweet from him. Good stuff. He’s still popular to a degree I’ll bet

KimikosNightmare · 29/11/2021 13:56

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KimikosNightmare · 29/11/2021 13:54

@ArabellaScott

From Wiki:

'Tommy Sheridan (born 7 March 1966) is a Scottish politician serving as convenor of Solidarity since 2019.[1] He previously served as convenor of the Scottish Socialist Party from 1998 to 2004 and as co-convenor of Solidarity from 2006 to 2016.[2][3] He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2007.

Sheridan was active as a Militant entryist in the Labour Party until 1989 when Labour expelled him,[4] and became a member of Scottish Militant Labour (SML), which eventually became the core of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP). He was a prominent campaigner against the Poll tax (officially known as the Community Charge) in Scotland, and was jailed for six months for attending a warrant sale in 1991 after Glasgow Sheriff Court had served a court order on him banning his presence.[5] He was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 as a Glasgow representative and re-elected in 2003 despite, in 2000 and 2002, being jailed over the non-payment of fines levied in connection with breach of the peace convictions resulting from his actions at demonstrations against the presence of the nuclear fleet at the Faslane Naval Base.[6] '

That's a rather sanitised entry.

He's a deeply loathsome individual.

WarriorN · 29/11/2021 13:51

Sorry Noona...

WarriorN · 29/11/2021 13:50

As Nora, a transwoman, discovered again today....

Tommy Sheridan supports women's rights
WarriorN · 29/11/2021 13:48

Come now, let's be 2021.

🦠 😘

FazedNotPhased · 29/11/2021 13:47

Oops, almost forgot:

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