Kate Osborne MP: 'My NY Resolution is to block T*rfs'

So a complete hypocrite as well as stirring hate against women

Good job

Depressingly close

How much violence will be condoned by Labour MPs if they get a majority?

It’ll be like Drakeford’s misogynistic reel. No stopping them. Look out for laws that inhibit challenge.

What’s the problem? Everyone in the world agrees with blocking terfs.

The real problem is the terfs are everywhere.

One can block windows and doors but then there’s the letterbox! One must allow letters from constituents.

The only solution is to live in a castle filled with penis-minders and have a moat filled with deep water.

But then there’s that horrible terf, what’s her name? the swimmer, Sharon somebody…

She might be capable of swimming across the moat.

Never mind, a penis-minder at the turret with a machine gun will stop her.

I mean it’s ok to shoot a terf isn’t it?

Worth noting in that article that a number of Labour women MPs wrote stating that:

'If Kate Osborne is selected, it would undermine any claim our party makes to stand resolutely against the harassment and intimidation of women in public life.'

How true that comment turned out to be.

In essence to protect the confusion and lack of clarity in the EqA to in turn protect the interests of men to dominate and control without hinderance from other people's rights and equalities.

It has always been very apparent that all of the Labour members of the 'Women and Equalities committee' are activists on behalf of Stonewall.

And are therefore drawn to anything labelled 'women' like flies to honey, in order to control it and redirect it to being centred upon men who identify as women at all times, as required by this affiliation. 'Women' is a word requiring 'search and destroy' as a duty upon the faithful.

What is the matter with that MP? Apparently a major, major issue in the kind of person who ends up getting put forward for selection - where the hell are they finding these people and wtf is it that is preventing better quality or even more normality? - and a major issue with accountability and standards.

After a year when we saw politicians grinning under a sign calling to decapitate women who argued back with men who wished to destroy their rights? When a male MP openly went to sit in the space of a female MP and bully her, right on camera in front of witnesses and a television audience, for the crime of arguing back with men who wished to destroy her and other women's rights? When an MP can share memes like this? And NO action of any kind was taken against any of these MPs. No sanctions, no public demonstration that there is any kind of professional code or even the basic standards of behaviour required of four year olds at the average primary school.

Why worry about partygate and lies at the top when this kind of behaviour is rife throughout?

The time of the professional politician really needs to be over. It is increasingly only a very specialised (to put it politely) kind of person who has the interest in local party politics and the time and capacity and money available to get into a position to be put forward for selection.

I suspect that this means that Labour will oppose moves to make sure that sex refers to biological sex; so that those with a GRC will still be able to access single sex spaces. Of course, Labour also means to make it far easier for people to acquire a GRC.

It has always been very apparent that all of the Labour members of the 'Women and Equalities committee' are activists on behalf of Stonewall.

Thanks for sharing this- we are in her constituency and that'll be 2 less votes for her from this left wing house.

Ties in with the attitude from the Labour canvassers in the local elections. My vote was genuinely up for grabs with this as my key issue. The labour canvasser literally backed down the front path when I said I had concerns about Labour's position on single sex services. The green canvasser had a thoughtful and nuanced discussion, including that biological sex was important and different to gender. And talked about how he advocates within the party to this effect. The greens got our votes (despite their national position) and won.

Thanks floisme, I started reading the Hansard but your link is better as that website has the MPs’ photos, which makes it easier to keep track of the exchanges.

Sorry cross post! Yes that's the one.

Here's the link to the whole debate on 'They Work for You' - not the official Hansard but I normally find it pretty reliable. Scroll down for Dodds' speech.

It was the repetition of 'Let me be clear' that tickled me the most, although it's not funny really because you I don't think you'd parrot a phrase like that unless you needed to stick to a script because you weren't on top of your brief.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2023-12-06b.359.0

Was it the 6th December session on gender recognition?

I’ve put KB and Hansard into Google and that seems the likeliest one in December.

Edited to add: I’ve found it.

“Let me be clear: Labour wants to modernise the Gender Recognition Act while making sure that that does not override the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act. We recognise that sex and gender are different, as the Equality Act does, but I am afraid the Minister’s statement only underlines how chaotic her Government’s approach has become, with the Conservatives apparently completely divided on these issues and focused on rhetoric rather than delivery. LGBT+ people deserve better.”

1.47pm in the debate

The same Kate Osborne that a group of Labour women pleaded to not be allowed to stand as an MP after she shared an image of Theresa May with a gun to her head (during the first GE following Jo Cox’s murder)? At a time when women, and particularly in politics, were suffering unprecedented levels of abuse via social media. She isn’t fit for office for all kinds of reasons, and no, she should not be sitting on the WESC.

It was in the debate with Kemi Badenoch a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't access Hansard at the time so I read it on 'They Work for You' instead. I'll see if I kept the link, hang in

Can you remember when she repeated it, floisme? I’d like to read the Hansard record of the precise words she used.

Good spot LoobiJee, I hadn't seen that. Yes I'm very wary of slippery phrasing, especially after the way Anneliese Dodds repeated part of that article pretty much word for word in the House of Commons. She even repeated 'Let me be clear'!

A slightly different point but your post has made me think of it

The biggest amendment that could help us is changing the definition of sex to biological sex.

Labour - “Moreover, let me be clear: we are proud of the Equality Act and will oppose any Conservative attempt to undermine it.”

They will oppose this and defend the act

Weasel wording spin mean many on here think Labour have ‘changed’. They haven’t they will make the GRC easier and oppose any move to pretty much the only solution we have.

Coming back to this point about the Labour party’s position.

I note that the article is carefully worded.

“Moreover, let me be clear: we are proud of the Equality Act and will oppose any Conservative attempt to undermine it.”

It’s only attempts to undermine the Equality Act put forward by the Conservative UK Government that Labour will oppose. Not any attempt to undermine the Equality Act. I suppose their commitment to opposing the undermining of the Equality Act has to be very narrowly defined - given that in 2022 they supported the SNP’s attempt to undermine it via the Scottish GRA bill.

Let's hope enough voters make it their NY resolution to vote that waste of space out of office.