Good Law Project suing the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - letter before action

It's on YouTube! Aha.

I would love to see The History Man again. So prophetic.

I wish the BBC would show that again. That, and The History Man.

Or Neville Chamberlaine as filtered by Harry Perkins!

(the late, great, Ray McAnally)

It’s a curious one isn’t it? It’s suddenly a useful, however spurious, line of argument for them.

Incidentally, I’ve been subject to regular ‘misgenderings’ all my life - but never in a toilet and except in one instance by an old lady as a child, always by men. And I don’t expect to start being challenged in loos by other women anytime soon.

"I have in my hand a prescription for puberty blockers..."

Seems he always had a high opinion of himself.

The sight of him gives me the ick now. The sheer self-regard just radiates from him.

Am now flashing back to that old Viz cartoon of Neville Chamberlain on the toilet. "I have in my hand a piece of paper..."

Can actually imagine Jolyon declaiming like that.

"Such pass my desk All The Time."

😁

The style is VERY Jolyon Maugham though.

"I have on my desk..."

A little bit off-topic, but I came across this statement today:

"I have on my desk an Opinion from a prominent QC at the Tax Bar. In it, he expresses a view on the law that is so far removed from legal reality that I do not believe he can genuinely hold the view he says he has. At best he is incompetent. But at worst, he is criminally fraudulent: he is obtaining his fee by deception. And this is not the first such Opinion I have seen. Such pass my desk All The Time."

That does sound so much like a quote about Joylon Maugham or one of the KCs that he has apparently taken advice from.

But it was actually a quote by Joylon himself talking about another QC back in the day when he was still practising tax law.

I just find it quite ironic that how he used to describe others in one context is how he appears (to me at least) these days.
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Link to article written by Joylon Maugham:

https://waitingfortax.com/2014/08/07/weak-transmission-mechanisms-and-boys-who-wont-say-no/

Yes, it's time for the men who identify as women to step up and start planning their days out around using unisex loos (if they don't want to use the mens).

• When my children were little I planned days out around toilet accessibility - not exclusively, but it was a serious consideration
• Very heavy prolonged periods for most of my adult life meant access to toilets was a necessity and a source of anxiety for me
• After gynaecological surgery in my 30s and later in my 40s this became even more important
• When taking my elderly mother out and about in a wheelchair, important for both her and me
• When taking my little granddaughters out and about, important for all of us
• Now in my 70s, bladder problems are often a worry

I don’t think that I’m different from many women in the above, and in fact am thankful that I don’t have more serious conditions making access to safe, private facilities exclusively for the female sex so important.

Hmmm “preferred toilet” like helen Joyce said the men who wish to use women's toilets are the people that we most want to keep out.

Lots of people every day have to plan their outings around toilets, either because they are physically prevented from using most toilets or because they are always accompanied by small children or because they have to use toilets very frequently.

In comparison this is a discussion about people who are upset because they cannot use their preferred toilet.

For a moment there, I thought you were talking about my DH! (see my user name)

But then I realised that I was on a different thread. Sorry for the total off-topic response.

My DH is definitely following through on the letter before action in his case.

I think Moylan is the banner carrier and whipping master for all the hysteria all over everywhere on line.

i think it unsurprising that there is a hullabaloo, You know it all snook up on us over a number of years, and the fight back has been bit by bloody bit and then….

the carpet has been whipped from under their feet.

Shazam just like that in one fell swoop. The whole legal facade.

It makes me think of Ripley and the aliens when she killed the product of her own DNA, by ensuring it got sucked out of the spaceship window into the void of space.

It was a slow bloody, screaming, pitiful mess.

As with the aliens it may come back in some other form,

Hopefully we are more at the ready, and we need to stay alert and armed to the teeth, politically speaking.

Fantastic idea.

All his invented scenarios, all his manipulative rhetoric don't matter one jot. The law is the law. As a lawyer he should know that.

We need to send this to More or Less on radio 4 “Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life”

Don't we want to stop sewage?

I'm not sure that Maugham's success rate means you want to point him at a worthwhile cause.

How about pointing him at Surfers Against Sewage?

That could lead to some interesting conversations at the Maugham dinner table.

So he's sent a letter before action and then has dropped a dead cat.

He has no intention of following the letter up with action. He's trying to distract us all from this.

@FlirtsWithRhinos@Keeptoiletssafe
Good points, and definitely agree