Eddie Izzard running for Labour MP in Brighton

Lol JanesLittleGirl 😂

I imagine he could parachute into a non-safe seat, but he wouldn't be interested in that, would he?

I have a subsequent engagement.

If Izzard can't get selected in Brighton he can't do it anywhere. I reckon Brighton preferred the candidate who was local, understood the area & its people & would represent them. Rather than a self deluded exhibitionist misogynist.

I am busy that night, too bad

Errm

So he puts Eddie not Suzy on promotional posters does he? How predictable…

Live? So not performing via Zoom? Interesting.

If anyone is in Sussex and feels that they haven't had enough Eddie since he was unaccountably not selected as the candidate for Brighton Pavilion, you can pop over to the de la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill and catch him live.

I'm not a fan of Izzard. However as others have noted prospective parliamentary candidates often have to shop around in a number of places before being selected and even when they do get one often stand in 'unwinnable' seats a few times before gettibg a 'safe' seat and then elected. So the article sounds quite naive and uninformed about how these things work.

She follows Helen Lewis and one or two GC Labour types on Twitter, looks like.

Although may also follow a whole raft of TWAWers, who knows?

You can breathe (relatively) easy

Labour has already chosen a candidate called Genevieve Kitchen.

Mind you, I've no idea what she's like - TWAW, GC, typical Labour fudge / Don't Talk About It, who knows.

I've just heard they're calling a by-election in Peter Bone's constituency. Fgs, don't anyone tell Izzard.

hartfordtechnologies.com/precision-balls/brass-balls/

In my own mind I keep coming back to it:

If men are to take advantage, nay take everything, through sheer overbearing, overblown, over-confidence then perhaps women (including me) need some of those brass balls?

Brilliant article, plus there is a link about halfway down (on the word ‘wrote’) which leads to an even stronger article describing his actions in Sheffield.

Worth reading.

failing to elect Eddie as PM of the Conservative Democrats is pure transphobia and probably illegal discrimination under the Equalities Recognition Act.

The accusations that he wasn’t selected due to transphobia are just bizarre.

In any ballot there can be any reason or none, ranging from ‘I disagree with his manifesto policies’ to ‘I don’t like him.’

To be fair, candidate often have to try for more than one seat before selected. Its just because hes well known that we hear the 'this town has always been my favourite' about sheff and brighton. Other candidates can get away with it.

I dont think he just wanted to be an MP, he wanted to be the first trans MP the first labour trans MP. It was always just about his identity, so to him and his tra supporters, rejecting his candidacy is rejecting his trans identity and therefore transphobic.

A fabulous article.

The reasoning for the lack of a win is not due to people being transphobic …

but because they have an old-fashioned commitment to decency and truth. Men up and down the country know you never set foot in the women’s loo. In pubs across the land there will be legions of men who are falling-down drunk but who still understand the women’s bathroom is off-limits.

A decency and truth that is very much missing in certain people I would feel…

Must be a mode thing.

Decent mode. Trust mode.

Not ‘entitled and I demand you take part in my fantasy mode’.

Men who claim to be women are parading around in women’s changing rooms with their knobs out – that doesn’t sound like equality to me, it sounds like flashing. What we used to call indecent exposure we now call ‘trans rights’. Would Izzard’s trumpeted commitment to dignity include defending the dignity of women who don’t want to see a shrivelled dick at the gym?

Abso freaking lutely 👏👏

Correction - in the Spiked article

This in the Critic article sums it up for me:

The woke elites underestimate at their peril how horrified people are by their Orwellian insistence that this man is a woman. Literally a woman. So obviously a woman that any real woman who dares to say he isn’t a woman will be branded a TERF (newspeak for ‘witch’) and cancelled into oblivion.

Excellent article by Jean there, thanks @IamSarah

I also emailed Izzard about single sex services in Brighton. Crickets...

Though I'm disappointed that Tom Gray also did not respond. I'm hoping he is braver now he's been selected. I will certainly continue asking, as an election draws near.