Labour candidate suspended for 'transphobia'

Agree, they should be given a kick up the arse.

Is this the tweet that's what's been deleted?

'My embodied reality as a member of the oppressed sex class is experienced in a world where biology has a significant impact. You can believe what you want but I believe that biological sex is a real thing and neither law or some kind of new scientific concensus wld change that.”

It sounds like it was a pinned tweet before?

If it's gone I would very much like to know what parts of it are against Labour policy.

I'm a bit disappointed; I was coming round to the thought of voting for her as an indie.
Pity she's had to apologise, but I agree she's kept it as minimal and specific as possible.

She apologised for her social media activity which "fell well below the standard expected of someone seeking election to public office".

I hope she does genuinely mean this, as in, she thinks some of her online behaviour was below standard, as otherwise she is lying on demand.

Maybe the apology was a condition imposed

Good to hear about profile update

The people of Cazenove have someone to vote for! I hope she wipes the floor.

She hasn't acknowledged her gender critical views themselves are wrong, just apologised very specifically the liking of "tweets that caused offence and a great deal of hurt".

https://x.com/laurapascal81/status/1747762859247878475?s=46&t=SPorwN-mokktL467rcZ57g

"Pleased to he able to update my Twitter profile this evening"

She updated it to "Feminist and unapologetic for my gender critical views" and added a dinosaur emoji

Well that puts a whole different slant on re-starting the campaign.

ie the ultimatum was obviously humiliate yourself by acknowledging you beliefs are wrong and offensive, and we will let you still be part of our woman hating party.

Faced with that I think she should have gone for the Independent option.

That makes it even clearer that Labour have no respect for women or for women's sex based rights.

The apology is cringemaking.

Why do some people feel they have to remain in Labour come what may.

x.com/polblonde/status/1747692477669097783?s=46&t=SPorwN-mokktL467rcZ57g

Telegraph article

archive.ph/2024.01.17-151301/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/17/labours-trans-witch-hunt-will-be-the-end-of-keir-starmer/

I agree, but I think it is tactical move to get past the suspension. Her twitter banner says courage calls to courage. Looks like she has deleted a few more controversial tweets while keeping others saying more or less the same thing in less dramatic terms.

Goodness me, Laura. Nothing to apologise for. I think that's a mistake, tbh. The TRAs see it as blood in the water and anyone who supports women's rights see it as capitulation.

I'd still vote for her, mind you.

Laura Pascal has put out an apology. Meanwhile it seems local Labour in Hackney are mobilising to get her elected. Be interesting to see what the result is.

oops - another typo:

But I wonder if they rushed it through to save space.

But I wonder if they rushed it through to save face.

Great news, Clambouring! And wow, that’s fast for a Labour suspension (considering Diane Abbott is still suspended after that Observer letter published in April 2023).

Really welcome.

But I wonder if they rushed it through to save space.

And if it was able to be dealt with so quickly whether who every made the complaint should at least be investigated to time wasting as well as bringing the Labour Party into disrepute!

Wow @Clambering

Not to mention the general public starting to ask the obvious question that if Labour and Starmer are unhinged on all this, why would they be hinged about cost of living etc?

Is anyone surprised? The process is the punishment for women every time.

Of course, this has generated a fair bit of publicity and, yet again feeds the narrative that Starmer is anti - women and anti child safeguarding. I'm beginning to think that this may become an election issue. Of course, the cost of living, Tory incompetence & sleaze etc will rightly be the major issues. But Starmer's silence in the face of increasingly unhinged labour transactivism speaks to his lack of moral fibre in the face of the social grooming of generations of children. The press aren't going to stop reporting everything that's happening and unless Labour start to respect the law etc, he'll struggle to answer coherently.

That's good news. The Telegraph have covered the bigger issue through this

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/17/labours-trans-witch-hunt-will-be-the-end-of-keir-starmer/

https://archive.ph/4gkG0

Update - just got an email from the local borough organisers saying:

Cazenove by-election campaign resumed
The campaign to elect Laura Pascal as Labour councillor for Cazenove has, as of this evening resumed. This doesn't leave us with much time but we will be using the time we have left to maximise turnout among Labour supporters."
The vote is tomorrow so not much time left but that's a quick decision from the Labour party & I welcome it.

Back in the day I knew quite a few Labour party members who didn't enjoy it at all when they were in government, and who were more interested in battling internal enemies than they were in winning elections. It sounds like they're still around.

Also, there are a lot of young people in the Labour Party who would rather the party lose than "pander to transphobia". Some have left and joined the Greens, but not all.

nonBINary photo

Looks like the Mail has caught up with this story. If interested see photo https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/01/16/10/80076785-12968431-image-a-1_1705402076277.jpg

So why didn't they do it at the time. Her position and Rosie's has been known for ages.