GLP are going after Sarah Philmore and are going to lose

But I still think @DuesToTheDirt has a point in that whilst the caption was intended as sarcasm, no actual woman would a) post a photo of themselves in a public loo and b) reference destroying women’s rights. It just wouldn’t occur to us to do so. To my mind, this still shows a real awareness of his transgression against women.

There's another photo doing the rounds which makes the point about how you should be careful about who you let take photos of you and that it's possibly not a good idea to post them on the internet.

You need brain bleach.

I wonder if our friend will send a cease and desist to Glinner now?

Sophie Molly has been a political candidate (never been voted in anywhere as far as I know?) Political representatives need to be able to stand up to questioning, and if he can't do that, well he should give up now.

Quite. The most difficult part would be narrowing down the selection of Mollys tweets Sarah's team might want to raise in court.

I think putting Molly on the stand would be more than fair given his harassment of Sarah and the expectation that she might have to stand up in court.

A lot of what Sophie Molly does himself could land him in court.

Would probably yell though a megaphone about his persecution and be dragged out for contempt of court.

Sarah is another of Fate's precious gifts to our movement.

A thought occurs re the defamation issue. If maugham refuses to delete and apologise, this could end up in court. So would Maugham have to produce Sophie Molly as a witness to support the defence of the statements he made.

That would be gold, for us, but i think pretty awful for Sophie Molly who i cant imagine would fair well under cross examination

Because Jolyon and his GLP are going to Sarah's regulator and trying to fuck with her ability to earn a living. She does actually have to do something about that, not only this particular attempt but to prevent them trying it again in the future.

It's not the same as JKR who not only has enough money never to work again but also doesn't have a professional standards board to answer to if she wants to keep going in her job.

What a curious coincidence............

Her requests are very reasonable. However if Maugham complies they will be utterly humiliated. Lets see what GLP do now.

Prediction

He will back down (has no option not too really) but it will be framed as big bully JKR using her wealth to fund hatred and harassment of trans people and their allies. Please give us more money anyway, Kthxbye.

There's been increasing scrutiny of the GLP's set up. This from 2022:

https://thecritic.co.uk/bad-law-project/

'There is an urgent need for better discipline around those who seek to exploit emotional responses to raise money for legal cases of dubious quality, underpinned by regulation if necessary. Be honest upfront about what you want and your chances of success – or at least be honest about what happens after you lose. These are significant sums raised from the desire of individuals to ‘make a difference’ and there is a responsibility on such organisations to recognise this.
Because it’s not just money received from crowdfunders that enriches the Good Law Project As the Labour Pains blog notes, the GLP “receives substantial sums in regular and one-off donations”. According to statements filed with Companies House in April 2021, “the GLP received £1,136,155 in such direct donations, and another £225,504 in grants”. '

The author of this piece was one Sarah Phillimore. I'm sure it's sheer coincidence that they're now going after a woman who has asked questions about their finances.

I see Ben Whur was at Stonewall, previously.

https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/stonewall-reveals-next-chief-executive/governance/article/1878490

'We are also grateful for support from Avaaz, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, Lund Trust, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, Necessity, 38 Degrees, and Dale Vince, CEO of Ecotricity.'

'Our executive director is not paid more than a backbench MP in the UK. Our highest salary is never more than three times our lowest. Our current pay ratio is 2.78.'

https://goodlawproject.org/about/governance-and-funding/

'The basic annual salary for an MP from 1 April 2025 is £93,904.'

https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/pay-mps/

So a wee modest mere £93k salary for Mr Maugham, I expect?

And still very proud of those pictures - which had been happily shared on his public SM accounts.

From Feb 2025 (I have marked it as sensitive image for those not wanting to reach for the brain bleach again).

And luckily she is far too canny to fall for his pathetic attempts at manipulation 😄

The thing is, they're spending so little of the money they've raised on litigation and so much on their bloated salary bill, they have to keep in the public eye to keep the donations flowing in. It's pure Ponzi scheme logic. I'm sure Jolyon thinks that if JKR sues him, that will be the biggest crowdfunder of all time.

JKR seems to have been ignoring the enticement to sue, why give him the attention he so clearly craves?

He’s obviously been trying to get JKR to sue him for months. I imagine he thinks he’s a hero and figurehead of trans rights and the fact that the GLP will be minting it in any case is just a convenient byproduct…

What happens if he doesn't back down? Can he engage the legal services of his own ltd company to defend him and fundraise for the costs involved (while keeping 10% of those funds as the GLP always does)?
This seems incestous and ethically questionable

I still can't quite believe Sophie Molly isn't a parody person / account. He just seems so fake. I keep expecting him to come clean.

I think this is correct.
If SP gets a sucessful defamation judgment against him that would certainly be something the BSB would be interested in.