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JKR calls Labour's Bluff - Offering Meeting leadership only on her terms

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fromorbit · 24/06/2024 20:44

JKR is playing at a different level. After Starmer and Reeves offered to meet with her she gave them her conditions.

I'll be happy to meet after NoXYinXXprisons, Lesbian Labour, Womens Rights Network, WomansPlaceUK and Alliance LGB have been given in person meetings with the Labour leadership. I'd also like to know whether Angela Rayner still considers the last two organisations hate groups.

They are trapped either they now have to meet with gay and women's groups and listen to them something they are desperate not to do. It is not impossible then that Reeves at least can be made to see some sense. Even talking with these groups and JKR will also make TRAs go ballistic and many will leave the party. Chances are that Labour will promise a bunch of stuff to JKR which If Labour still follow gender nonsense after that they can be fully held to account for. If they promise single sex spaces are safe then every time that is breached Labour's credibility will be on the line

Or if they refuse to meet with the groups they prove EVERYTHING JKR said in her essay was right.

The media are now hyping the meeting further locking Labour in

BRING IT ON
Keir Starmer insists he WILL meet with JK Rowling to thrash out trans and gender rights & ‘respects’ her views
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28714134/keir-starmer-jk-rowling-trans/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/24/labour-gender-transition-recognition-process-trans.

a woman in a blue dress stands in front of a sign that says rift

Keir insists he WILL meet with JK Rowling to thrash out trans and gender rights

KEIR Starmer has tonight insisted he will meet with JK Rowling to thrash out trans and gender rights – saying he “respects her views”. The Labour leader dropped the bombshell …

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28714134/keir-starmer-jk-rowling-trans

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duc748 · 24/06/2024 21:27

Christinapple · 24/06/2024 21:23

"JKR for Prime Minister"

Can you imagine. We would hear about trans people all day every day, there would be no escape.

Well we certainly do here, when people are trying to talk about women's rights.

OvaHere · 24/06/2024 21:26

Plenty of proof to back this up including people who wear LGB-Alliance clothing not being welcome at actual gay bars and gay pride events.

Some people would say this is evidence of gay spaces and gay pride no longer being about gay rights. See also lesbians being attacked at pride events for being same sex attracted.

Christinapple · 24/06/2024 21:23

"JKR for Prime Minister"

Can you imagine. We would hear about trans people all day every day, there would be no escape.

Fluffypuppy1 · 24/06/2024 21:22

misscockerspaniel · 24/06/2024 21:03

JKR for Prime Minister

This.

A way better option than Starmer and Labour who are coming across as a bunch of vile misogynists. The thought of him and them running the country in a little over a week is really frightening in terms of women losing our rights.

heldinadream · 24/06/2024 21:21

Goddess is that woman awesome or is she awesome? 👸🏼

Christinapple · 24/06/2024 21:21

"They are trapped either they now have to meet with gay and women's groups"

A lot of people including myself have the viewpoint the LGB-Alliance is not a gay rights group but more of an anti-trans group. Plenty of proof to back this up including people who wear LGB-Alliance clothing not being welcome at actual gay bars and gay pride events. And the fact almost everything they say and do is all about being anti-trans rather than actually benefitting gay people.

They don't respond to emails pointing this out to them.

DialSquare · 24/06/2024 21:20

Merrilydancing · 24/06/2024 21:07

Wow, she has out manoeuvred them all, she’s some politician!

She does it every time. She's clever, brave, funny, and a total inspiration.

LarkLane · 24/06/2024 21:20

A brilliant response, pointing out all the groups that Labour should have been talking to, and saying I'll meet after you meet with them.
One impressive woman.

Brukli · 24/06/2024 21:18

She’s bloody brilliant. I wish I could vote for HER.

allnewfor2024 · 24/06/2024 21:17

IwantToRetire · 24/06/2024 21:13

She's not only done that but shown what intergrity is.

ie acknowledging all (well some) of the groups who have been campaigning and politicians (Labour) felt they could just ignore or call dinasours or terfs or some other demeaning term.

But also so depressing.

Are we to take from this that the ordingary voter is of no interest to politicians, but a celebrity will be listened to? Sad

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Not just ordinary voters but actual labour members and MPs ignored.

duc748 · 24/06/2024 21:16

This is just brilliant! Starmer is impaled on a fork of his own making.

PaintDiagram · 24/06/2024 21:16

When you think she couldn’t possibly get any better.

JKR you’re amazing. Bloody love that woman.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 24/06/2024 21:16

IwantToRetire · 24/06/2024 21:13

She's not only done that but shown what intergrity is.

ie acknowledging all (well some) of the groups who have been campaigning and politicians (Labour) felt they could just ignore or call dinasours or terfs or some other demeaning term.

But also so depressing.

Are we to take from this that the ordingary voter is of no interest to politicians, but a celebrity will be listened to? Sad

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It is depressing, but at this stage I just want them to listen to SOMEONE who gives a fig about women. Anyone would do.

mrshoho · 24/06/2024 21:15

Oh touché, oh mighty JKR. Cuts straight through the BS I bloody love it!

IwantToRetire · 24/06/2024 21:13

Merrilydancing · 24/06/2024 21:07

Wow, she has out manoeuvred them all, she’s some politician!

She's not only done that but shown what intergrity is.

ie acknowledging all (well some) of the groups who have been campaigning and politicians (Labour) felt they could just ignore or call dinasours or terfs or some other demeaning term.

But also so depressing.

Are we to take from this that the ordingary voter is of no interest to politicians, but a celebrity will be listened to? Sad

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 24/06/2024 21:12

misscockerspaniel · 24/06/2024 21:03

JKR for Prime Minister

Absofuckinglutely.

If no one gets their bloody act together before the 4th that's what I'm spoiling my ballot with.

Merrilydancing · 24/06/2024 21:07

Wow, she has out manoeuvred them all, she’s some politician!

Morwenscapacioussleeves · 24/06/2024 21:07

I cackled when I read her tweet 😆

She could run rings round Starmer while he just gets more & more splinters in his arse.

WarriorN · 24/06/2024 21:03

Totes

PronounssheRa · 24/06/2024 21:03

Queen takes king.

Your move Labour

chess GIF
misscockerspaniel · 24/06/2024 21:03

JKR for Prime Minister

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fromorbit · 24/06/2024 21:02

I think Starmer and Reeves underestimate how committed JKR is and how clever she is.

J.K. Rowling
Oh, and also, for about the millionth bloody time - this is not about trans rights. This is about THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS and lobby groups' attempts to remove them.

The Trap is building up. Everyone seems keen. What will Labour say.

LGB Alliance
Thank you very much for your support jkrowling, we would of course be delighted to meet with KeirStarmer, but a reply to our letter would be a good start: https://lgballiance.org.uk/our-asks-for-the-party-leaders/

Woman’s Place UK
Thank you. We would welcome such a meeting. Of course the inestimable
@LabWomenDec need to be at the table too. There is just so much to say.

Keep Prisons Single Sex
transwidows must be included. Spouses, usually wives, are at the frontline, their voices are silenced & their needs dismissed as at best a distracting irrelevance and at worst as hateful.

x.com

https://x.com/AllianceLGB

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EasternStandard · 24/06/2024 21:01

Blimey she is excellent

WarriorN · 24/06/2024 20:59

Oooh excellent < 🍿 >

allnewfor2024 · 24/06/2024 20:58

Wow. They must be having kittens working out what to do next.
I can hear ‘Pressure. Pushing down on me.’ running in my head. Tick tock. 9 days to go.
They still can’t have my vote though , no matter what the outcome. It shouldn’t have come to this.