Labour candidate suspended for 'transphobia'

I used to live nearby @Clambering . Jessam Ave literally across from Cazenove. Huge Orthodox Jewish community. It's Labour / Conservative split really. Not Green or Libdems territory as you doubtless know already. I see from the tweets piling onto Laura that some of the zealots will vote Green though. Let's hope Laura wins. But it would serve Labour right if the Tories won against the national polls. Perhaps then KS will read the runes.

Mine definitely has. It's a wrench but I can't vote for a party that acts like this. Does the Labour Party actually exist anymore? This is terrifying.

Reminds me of that logic problem where you have two doors to choose between, and the guard on one door always tells the truth and the other always lies, and you can only ask them one question.

It really is getting that convoluted.

I'm a member of the Labour party in the ward where Laura Pascal is standing and I'm very upset to hear about this. There's not much information available locally about exactly what has happened - the news is very recent. If it is the case that she's been targetted, reported and suspended for her stance on gender and women's rights then I am very disappointed again/still in the Labour party. The election is this week - she still has my vote and I hope that she gets in as an independent candidate.

So bloody tedious isn't it? Tedious Labour . As if we haven't enough to be concerned about ! She seem alright ( that is a sane, rational woman not gaslight by this weird ideology ), what little I've read about her ,I would vote for Laura. Shame of Hackney Labour.
Yep, business as usual, Labour pointless- N.T.V. F.

Fucking hell.

I feel like putting up an advert:
ONE VOTE AVAILABLE
Are you honest? Do you believe in ideals of representative democracy (that is, you won't trample over the views and beliefs of the majority)? Do have a social conscience?

And finally... (tricky, this one...) Do you - deep breath - know what a woman is?

Currently there isn't a party I can vote for. As not as though I'm making a mad series of unreasonable demands.

Many postal voters will have already voted too.

I can’t see why she wouldn’t have a case

Presumably the voting papers have already been printed. If so, they will say she is the Labour candidate.

Unless Labour continues campaigning, but not for her (how?), many of the voters who would normally vote Labour will be guided by the voting paper and vote for her.

More of the same from Labour

I’m not on Twitter but I could scroll through her feed which (what I was able to see at least) was entirely photos of her doorstep campaigning going back seven years. It wouldn’t let me look at the Twitter feed of the David Duffield person who has been posting “don’t vote for her” and accusing Labour of transphobia on Twitter.

can she run as an independent without incurring entry costs or whatever they’re called now?

Not sure how gentrified Hackney is now. Hopefully not so middle class they’ve swallowed the kool aid.

I cannot vote labour and can’t vote Tory, Green or Lib Dem 🤷‍♀️

You'd have thought that the findings of Rachel's case this week might have given pause for thoughts. What with the discussion of when someone with an unreasonable axe to grind makes a complaint, those being complained to need to do a bit of critical thinking and investigation. And sometimes the answer is 'no'.

Particularly considering the costs coming down the track for discriminating and harassing people in this way.

Thanks loobi! I wasn’t going to click on links in the article. But now I will.

Laura's spot on.

I really, really hope I don't know the whole story yet - always possible - because, if it turns out that Labour have decided they would prefer to lose a by-election than field a candidate who recognises biological reality, well then the thread my vote has been hanging on might just have snapped.

If you follow the links in the article she tweet-quoted a tweet comparing womanface with blackface, which presumably is the racism she’s been accused of.

If I was Sunak ....or whichever attack dog the Tories have hired this time ....I'd run very hard with stories like this. They have eff all to lose now. Just lead with 'loony lefty councils ' 24/7. Worked before.

BTW I swept Cazenove Rd in a previous life. Wonder what my old lesbian workmates make of it all?

This is the reality of the Labour Party - no matter what the messaging from the front bench. Truly Orwellian. One Person with axe to grind can make a complaint - and then the Labour party machine immediately abandons that candidate.

I think that has happened in the Green Party too, with several people taking them to court over suspensions.

This is in breach of the Equality Act, surely?

Yes. But the article also refers to her attacking male individuals amongst other things.

I am wondering though if she has done something very recently, or whether she is a new victim of the same organised attack Rosie and Tonia had seen.

I guess I am asking before I go and do a deep social media dive to find out. I can’t do that just yet as I am on my phone and need a larger screen to do it. So I am being lazy ☺️

Would she and Rosie consider starting a socialist party that does socialism and sanity rather than identifies as doing it?

Whole lot of voters with nowhere to put an x, who'd really like to.

I hope she gets elected then stays independent when they have to back down and say well yes, tw are actually men and many recent legal cases have shown it is ok to acknowledge that reality.

Poor Laura.

Laura, if you're reading this, I'll happily get my shovel out.

How dare the Labour Party break the law over and over again. Gender Critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010.
Keir Starmer, pull you head in, put your big boy's pants on and start to protect at least the 99% women in your Party who don't have a p3nis.