I live in Rosie Duffields constituency. Just had local election door knock from labour party

Something to do with Brianna Ghey being added by Jess Phillips to the list of murdered women?
(I saw something on twitter but didn’t follow it up)

I would report these traitorous canvassers to the Labour Party and say that there should be no room for them in the Party if they undermine their local MP. They are there to get a Labour member elected, not to undermine her perfectly reasonable stance.

She does seem to live rent free in your head ijclark

I'm sure if she wishes to discuss any of her health issues with you she'll be in touch.

Why should she have mentioned migraines?

Anyone know what happened to her today? She says she had a migraine and so wasn’t able to speak at the HoC but she had some big speech prepared for IWD and she’s never mentioned about suffering with migraines before. Very odd!

I love this!

Rosie’s impeccable dress sense yesterday.

twitter.com/francesweetman/status/1633488565526048769?s=46&t=Jc83RvF4BLuFOsKbzX8RQQ

Good for Rosie. Starmer still missing in action when it comes to standing up for one of his women MPs being bullied - no change there then.

Given the type of correspondence Rosie receives I would not be surprised if she passed some of it to the police to reply.

@FigRollsAlly oh good, i look forward to raising her treatment of women who have worked for and trans rights when she knocks on my door :)

To be fair, how could he have expected a woman in possession of a little lady brain to comprehend “complicated” issues? 😑 I’m in Canada, life long left wing voter, and I am itching for an election so I can bring this up on the doorstep and with my local candidates.

Was he actually canvassing for the Conservatives? I can’t imagine an approach more likely to make a potential Labour voter tell him to stick it where the sun don’t shine.

@FigRollsAlly yes could be. Or maybe she’s warning those who have been doing this that she knows what they are up to and will be saying further things if they don’t stop telling lies about her.

Given that she didn’t come out and say what the real point of the question was, maybe she was tipping off other MPs to be alert to this sort of thing?

Rosie just asked a question at PMQs about the importance of people being able to discuss women’s rights when canvassed on the doorstep for the upcoming local elections. She stresses the importance of canvassers treating people with respect so it sounds like she’s aware of the opposite happening. Sunak said he agreed with her and supported her.
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Great question.

Yes, if I hadn’t read this thread and known all the background from other threads I wouldn’t have understood that this question was anything other than a generalised IWD one. I guess she can’t really stand up and say that labour canvassers in her constituency are behaving so badly.

I heard her question @FigRollsAlly I wonder why she wasn’t a little more specific as to what has happened to her.

Rosie just asked a question at PMQs about the importance of people being able to discuss women’s rights when canvassed on the doorstep for the upcoming local elections. She stresses the importance of canvassers treating people with respect so it sounds like she’s aware of the opposite happening. Sunak said he agreed with her and supported her.
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I can see you have history with your MP ipclerk. You feel she is out to get you for some reason? My MP has nothing to leak on me... he isn't prone to getting invoked.

My MP answered me a couple of times. Both times it was incoherent gibberish - it really gave the impression of feeding a random selection of sentences into a kaleidoscope & churning them round.

It’s a marginal seat & said MP is not standing again.

Off-topic, but I'm reminded of an anecdote that the Labour MP Tony Banks used to tell about his experience as a newly elected member in the early '80s. He was assigned an old hand to teach him the ropes and Banks was astonished when his mentor dumped all the correspondence from his constituents in the bin unopened. "But what if it's important?," he protested. "If it's important they'll write again," came the reply. "But how do you know that one of those letters wasn't from someone writing again?" "Look, son," the old MP explained, "the proportion of my constituents who bother to write to me is tiny, the proportion who write again if they don't get a reply is even smaller, and the number of them who are so annoyed that they won't vote for me at the next election is tinier still. I've got a majority of 20,000 so I'll be safely re-elected until I choose to retire".

Banks was Minister for Sport when I heard him talking in the early '90s. He said he hoped that MPs had since become more responsible and accountable, but was making a point about the relative futility of letter writing as a campaign tactic and the need to be more creative to achieve political goals. Of course, behind-the-scenes lobbying that constituents don't have access to is probably the most effective tool for change, which is why we're in the mess that we currently are.

My MP replies to every letter and email, always with a bland and predictable letter. He has an awful reputation locally for not doing anything. Obviously too busy signing letters. Thank god he's stepping down before the next election.

@PopGoesTheProsecco tbf her office is quite good, but she’s absolutely useless. I know many people in the constituency who have written to her and don’t get a reply. I also know people who have worked in her office and, well, they have a very interesting perspective. From what I understand of how the office operates, it’s highly likely the staff did all the work to get you the support you needed.

Either way, if your MP publicly leaks special category data about you to get at you, that’s not a sign of an ethical or a “brilliant” MP.

Back to the election point of this thread. Rosie Duffield is a brilliant constituency MP. Someone upthread said that her office didn’t respond to emails - that’s 100% not my experience. I would not have an ASC diagnosis for my daughter if it weren’t for her office’s intervention with CAMHS.