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Alex Sobel (Labour Shadow Cabinet) visiting Mermaids

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achillestoes · 10/08/2022 19:05

After everything that’s emerged about the risks associated with the pharmaceutical regime Mermaids promote for young children, and after the number of occasions on which this charity has shown they don’t understand safeguarding, Sobel, a member of Labour’s actual front bench, feels it’s a “pleasure” to visit Mermaids, congratulate them on receiving an award, and meet and be photographed with Susie Green.

I’m proudly voting Tory.

Each to their own, eh?

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teawamutu · 10/08/2022 20:30

TammyOne · 10/08/2022 20:01

I have met Alex Sobel a couple of times and he’s a bit slimy yeah, but ffs, voting Tory is not a vote that will benefit women! The majority of single parents are women and single parent families are overwhelmingly poorer. With the cost of living crisis things are going to get really really hard for them. Voting for a party that want to make the rich richer, the poor poorer and sell off the countries assets to the highest bidder is NOT going to help women in general!

Arrogant twats like Sobel bank on women voting against their own interests, and for Labour, because they're The Goodies.

He needs to cop on and realise it's not for us to hold our noses and vote for him - he needs to, you know, actually represent us.

I am voting Tory until Labour wake the fuck up. That's on them, not me.

muland · 10/08/2022 20:22

TammyOne · 10/08/2022 20:01

I have met Alex Sobel a couple of times and he’s a bit slimy yeah, but ffs, voting Tory is not a vote that will benefit women! The majority of single parents are women and single parent families are overwhelmingly poorer. With the cost of living crisis things are going to get really really hard for them. Voting for a party that want to make the rich richer, the poor poorer and sell off the countries assets to the highest bidder is NOT going to help women in general!

Oh look, a squirrel.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 10/08/2022 20:20

Agree with other posters TammyOne. Go and tell Sobel that women are entitled to boundaries and that safeguarding ought to be a priority for MPs - not cosying up to extremist lobby groups. As women and parents many?most ? of us would like to vote Labour again but can't while they're caught up while men like him (and his female counterparts) are silent about the Cass review and uncaring about vulnerable children and women's rights.
Please - go and tell him as he's the problem, not women on here.

BrokeAsABone · 10/08/2022 20:19

I hate Tory, but no, I don't blame you one bit.😞

Ramblingnamechanger · 10/08/2022 20:16

Happy for violent men to be in womens prisons too.

Tiphaine · 10/08/2022 20:13

The only testicular Mx user I've seen is Edward Lord.

FunnyTalks · 10/08/2022 20:10

PronounssheRa · 10/08/2022 19:30

Alex sobel also thinks women shouldn't have single sex spaces.

Alex Sobel thinks women shouldn't have boundaries then?

I think males like Sobel are creeps. I wouldn't vote for him or ever want to share a space with him.

He is happy to enable abuse 🚩

Abusers don't wear special signs. Women can only work with available evidence to know which males are trustworthy.

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achillestoes · 10/08/2022 20:09

‘but ffs, voting Tory is not a vote that will benefit women!’

Go and tell him. Tell him women who would otherwise be ‘expected’ (by you? By him? By themselves?) to vote Labour believe women deserve to be respected as autonomous humans, and kids deserve to be left alone to grow up.

Come and tell us what he says.

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TammyOne · 10/08/2022 20:01

I have met Alex Sobel a couple of times and he’s a bit slimy yeah, but ffs, voting Tory is not a vote that will benefit women! The majority of single parents are women and single parent families are overwhelmingly poorer. With the cost of living crisis things are going to get really really hard for them. Voting for a party that want to make the rich richer, the poor poorer and sell off the countries assets to the highest bidder is NOT going to help women in general!

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achillestoes · 10/08/2022 19:51

It is.

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PronounssheRa · 10/08/2022 19:50

achillestoes · 10/08/2022 19:44

Apparently he knows someone they’ve ‘helped a lot’.

It's curious how common this is amongst Labour MPs.

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achillestoes · 10/08/2022 19:48

He also tried to get the Women and Equalities team (Badenoch, specifically) to make a statement about their ‘progress’ in making institutions use the invented title “Mx”, a title which is apparently “gender-neutral” but which only female people ever seem to use.

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muland · 10/08/2022 19:48

I’m proudly voting Tory.

Abso-bloody-lutely 👏👏👏

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achillestoes · 10/08/2022 19:44

Apparently he knows someone they’ve ‘helped a lot’.

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KatVonlabonk · 10/08/2022 19:33

So what's his back story?
Misogynist?
Young trans identifying relative?

Both ????

PronounssheRa · 10/08/2022 19:30

Alex sobel also thinks women shouldn't have single sex spaces.

Alex Sobel (Labour Shadow Cabinet) visiting Mermaids
Apollo442 · 10/08/2022 19:13

Don't blame you at all.

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