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Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus

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ChristinaXYZ · 30/05/2022 20:07

"Trans activists have hounded Nadhim Zahawi off a Russell Group campus, accusing him of “inciting hatred” by defining women as “adult human females”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Education Secretary was met with dozens of student protesters chanting “Zahawi is a transphobe” and “Tory scum” while visiting the University of Warwick on Friday.

The Cabinet minister had to be ushered away from campus by security guards in dramatic scenes, as he was pursued by activists brandishing trans flags and placards."

Read more and see video on Telegraph's website

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/30/watch-trans-activists-hound-nadhim-zahawi-university-campus/

and on twitter

twitter.com/ewansomerville/status/1531339153958440961

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MagnoliaTaint · 31/05/2022 15:46

'Neptunic refers to an individual who is attracted to both Nonbinary and Female genders. It can also be described as the attraction to all people except men and man aligned and/or masculine aligned non-binary people. This orientation is mostly used by non-binary people to describe their attraction without relying on the gender binary, but it can be used by anyone.'

TheBiologyStupid · 31/05/2022 15:37

Hoardasurass · 31/05/2022 15:12

Ok can someone please explain "neptunic" to me please (am ro scared to Google it)

Someone of any of the 1001 different genders (apart from men) identifying as being attracted to anyone else of those genders (again, excluding men). I think. Very exclusionary, anyway. Bigots!

TullyApplebottom · 31/05/2022 15:15

Zahawi comes out of this well. Given the ball is about to come loose from the back of the scrum, as a certain person once put it, he is positioning himself well.

Hoardasurass · 31/05/2022 15:12

Ok can someone please explain "neptunic" to me please (am ro scared to Google it)

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ChristinaXYZ · 31/05/2022 15:11

Tanith · 31/05/2022 14:38

Very odd!
Now Nadhim Zahawi has tweeted to say "This student was very polite to me."
twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1531590554441621506

So I'm not sure if he is Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls' son, but I am pretty sure it's Guido Fawkes stirring again.

How is saying something true- that a particular person is there and did so-and-so - stirring?

The fact that Labour are so extreme in position on this subject, the fact that his mother would not answer a straight question on the subject, and him being so committed to the cause of trans activism that he went to heckle an invited guest at another student group's meeting is all very relevant to any voter in the UK - the issues are connected. I assume Joel is not a member of the Conservatives Students group at Warwick but he was taking it upon himself to interfere and was part of a cohort that were trying to make hearing the minister difficult (playing music etc as well as heckling) and therefore interfering the freedom of the group to invite a speaker and the freedom of speaker to be heard.

Nadhim Zahawi was very polite about it. And Joel may have been polite in the phrasing of his question but the whole effect of his and his friends behaviour is part of the chilling effect. And one of the group did seem to punch someone. The protestors were out of order.

I am glad Guido pointed it out that he was involved. Maybe his carpet route to a 6 figure salary post university (like many ex-ministers sons) may be less smooth.

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Barbadossunset · 31/05/2022 15:08

So I'm not sure if he is Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls' son

Tanith why don’t you think he’s Ed & Yvette’s son? Surely the newspapers would’ve printed an apology by now if he wasn’t?

ResisterRex · 31/05/2022 15:02

To be fair, Zahawi might not be naming him as it could result in a Twitter pile on. Or because he doesn't want to give him the publicity. Or because he finds him an irrelevance but one he's happy to refer to in an abstract yet cordial way.

MissyB1 · 31/05/2022 14:49

Tanith · 31/05/2022 14:38

Very odd!
Now Nadhim Zahawi has tweeted to say "This student was very polite to me."
twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1531590554441621506

So I'm not sure if he is Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls' son, but I am pretty sure it's Guido Fawkes stirring again.

Well the lad is the spitting image of Ed Balls, so I’m guessing it is their son.

MagnoliaTaint · 31/05/2022 14:39

What, the oppressed minority of rich white men? We see that quite a lot.

Tanith · 31/05/2022 14:38

Very odd!
Now Nadhim Zahawi has tweeted to say "This student was very polite to me."
twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1531590554441621506

So I'm not sure if he is Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls' son, but I am pretty sure it's Guido Fawkes stirring again.

TullyApplebottom · 31/05/2022 14:24

Posh white kids trying to silence a man who came here as a refugee and having been very successful, builds a political career.
tells us everything about todays left, eh

MagnoliaTaint · 31/05/2022 14:20

Definitely son of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nadhim-zahawi-met-with-chants-of-transphobe-at-campus-talk-jzfdtmsvt?ilc=timesradio:morefromthetimes

also in the Mail.

ResisterRex · 31/05/2022 14:16

On Wiki:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Balls

There's this:

web.archive.org/web/20120223013401/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1338650/Health-minister-celebrates-birth.html

"Ms Cooper is married to Ed Balls, chief economic adviser to the Treasury. The couple, who have called the baby Joel, already have a two-year-old daughter"

Andante57 · 31/05/2022 14:14

In that case Guido Fawkes has got it wrong - my apologies. Hopefully a correction will be forthcoming.

Tanith · 31/05/2022 14:05

Wikipaedia lists three children for Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls. None of them is called Joel Cooper.

Andante57 · 31/05/2022 13:52

I read it on Guido Fawkes.

‘A video posted by the Warwick Labour society shows Cooper interrupting the question session while another student interrupts him to point out the son of New Labour’s power couple was blacklisted from the event, as organisers believed he and the Labour society were planning to disrupt it. After concluding his monologue he sat down to applause from fellow Labour activist gatecrashers.’

SpindleSheWrote · 31/05/2022 13:35

Was the Balls-Cooper student one of the ones banging on the doors and being disruptive? Or did he lose control of his own protest?

DameHelena · 31/05/2022 13:29

Tallisker · 31/05/2022 12:39

Kellie Jay sells dog whistles Grin

Does she Grin

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ChristinaXYZ · 31/05/2022 13:18

Apparently one of the students is the son of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper @SpindleSheWrote order-order.com/2022/05/31/exclusive-yvette-coopers-son-led-trans-rights-disruption-of-zahawi-qa/ Talk about a privileged background. And may explain Yvette Cooper, who I thought would have more sense, being so wet on this.

Too many parents are letting their teenagers and 20-somethings do the parenting by setting the values and acceptable topics to their own angst -ridden peer-group low standards. More parents need to stand up their kids - I don't mean insist the kids have the same views (futile) but that the kids don't get to moderate the parents' views - especially at work ffs. What is Cooper playing at!

Nadhim Zahawi has very gentlemanly tried to deflect the critics away from his colleague's son twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1531590554441621506 which is a greater courtesy than the mob gives to anyone else.

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Tanith · 31/05/2022 13:01

Andante57 · 31/05/2022 11:33

One of the protesters was Joel Cooper, son of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper. Maybe fear of being cancelled by her son is why Yvette refuses to define a woman.

I thought their son was called Joe Balls.

Tallisker · 31/05/2022 12:39

Kellie Jay sells dog whistles Grin

DameHelena · 31/05/2022 12:36

I think I want a T-shirt with 'Transphobic Dog Whistler' on it.

Boiledbeetle · 31/05/2022 12:36

TullyApplebottom · 31/05/2022 12:27

The solution to this is simple. The parents of these over privileged little no marks need to tell them that if that’s how they want to behave at university they can do it on someone else’s dollar.
lets see how they feel about their principles when bank of mum and dad withdraws credit

Well quite!

If they were having to work as many hours as possible at the local petrol station in order to survive through uni I don't think they'd have the time for doing this shit!

TullyApplebottom · 31/05/2022 12:27

The solution to this is simple. The parents of these over privileged little no marks need to tell them that if that’s how they want to behave at university they can do it on someone else’s dollar.
lets see how they feel about their principles when bank of mum and dad withdraws credit