Kathleen Stock was on Good Morning Britain This Morning

What a lovely ratio for a sunny June weekend.

Well quite. Drawing attention to it and not realising what an idiot he looked only adds another layer of stupidity.

can’t believe Balls has drawn attention to his execrable “interview” with Kathleen Stock. The normal response would be to keep your head down for a week or two and hope everyone forgets about it. I can only assume he thought he did rather well, and is proud to associate himself with it. Maybe his son told him he “done great Dad!”

Yes I imagine so

You can tell he doesn't like being bested by a woman, plain and simple.

Clueless , I agree. Also I was surprised by his expression in the interview , when he says “I knows what most people think”, and KS responds with a laugh and “I can see that” (or along those lines). His face flickers with genuine anger. I very much did not like that. Very revealing.

Seriously? That is pure Humpty Dumpty. It certainly doesn't support the argument that the current government is politically, socially or fiscally to the right of Thatcher. I could equally argue that Boris Johnson presided over the most left wing government since Jim Callaghan.

I can’t believe Balls has drawn attention to his execrable “interview” with Kathleen Stock. The normal response would be to keep your head down for a week or two and hope everyone forgets about it. I can only assume he thought he did rather well, and is proud to associate himself with it. Maybe his son told him he “done great Dad!”

I thought that too. Ed looks clueless.

The party has drifted to the right, but Parris is socially liberal, at least on gay rights of course, which has always given him the appearance of being "leftist" perhaps? I'm not sure how economically conservative he is.

Cracker of a reply from Doc Stock

This isn't a left or right issue, i think what we are seeing within the political parties is that the conservatives are allowing disagreement, labour not so much.

Another problem is that politicians support policy without any understanding. Thats why politicians have said babies are born without a sex, surgery changes sex, sex is a spectrum. All of which clearly arent true. Or most people believe it, men who want to be women are the most marginalised in society - nothing that is relelevant when removing safeguarding.

Now that the media have started to ask questions, politicians have been exposed. They were either conned by activists, or went into this knowing they were comprising safeguarding. Neither is good.

Matthew parris is protecting the political class by admitting there's a problem but telling us to ignore it.

'Left' & 'Right' are flexible and changing political polarities which evolve with time according to circumstances. There may be a certain set of fairly fixed, key values, but apart from that it is a moveable feast.

Matthew Parris was an MP from 1979 to 1986. The party has drifted to the right since Thatcher?

What an idiot - ratioed all over again (just like Innocent Smoothies earlier in the week).

Harvard fellow? And he thinks a woman can have a penis?

The answers he's getting 😂😂
People are not impressed.

I haven't read all 800+ and counting replies, but it's not going the way he hoped.

'Odd and slightly baffling' sums up the attitude of most of Labour on this matter tbf Ed.

Ed has come back for more: https://twitter.com/edballs/status/1663832665135431682?cxt=HHwWhIC2scu_j5cuAAAA

People whining about 'but other issues are more important than women's equality in law' are missing this point entirely

The point they're also missing is that a) they are important to women and b) dismissing women's issues as 'not important' is not a good look as far as millions of women are concerned. Start losing rights that have been hard fought for and kiss goodbye to getting them back.

Matthew Parris also busy demonstrating how leftist men at the moment seem to have their ears tuned to the point that they just can't hear women. Critical thinking, any grip on reality, and ability to foresee the bleeding obvious mode also appears to be switched off.

It's depressing. That party is increasingly looking buggered beyond hope of recovery. Fgs where's a sane middle-left new party? The goal's open wide.

Just read this @EleanorScott .
It's great! Thanks for writing and posting. Gave it a like too

I have just finished watching the ‘what is a woman’ film (link on Twitter via Elon Musk’s page or Daily Wire). As Elon has tweeted ‘every parent must watch this’. Over 100 million people have watched it since it was posted yesterday afternoon and counting!! I hope that the pendulum (in America at least) is starting to swing the other way. This nonsense is damaging children and has to stop.

Absolutely.

Of course I think women's rights are crucially important, but the authoritarianism, the control, coercion and manipulation of those pushing genderist ideas are what I find really breathtaking.

These are people who are willing to state absurdities. To attack, defame, smear, threaten and lie.

Basically they'll do whatever it takes to get their ideology entrenched; they don't care who is harmed.