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Sharron Davies peerage nomination

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Coaster1 · 10/12/2025 18:09

lovely news. Makes me think someone in the awarding body must be GC….

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MistyGreenAndBlue · 20/12/2025 00:48

JanesLittleGirl · 10/12/2025 19:29

My money's on an AIBU type parking issue.

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Ha! You beat me to it 😂

MistyGreenAndBlue · 20/12/2025 00:46

GreenSoapandSeeds · 10/12/2025 18:57

From someone who lived near her 25 years ago, no less. I wonder what Sharron did to upset the neighbours. I bet it’s got something to do with recycling

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Nah. It'll be the net curtains. Soooo common dear. Or a parking dispute

MistyGreenAndBlue · 20/12/2025 00:45

IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth · 10/12/2025 18:23

I lived near Ms Davies for many years when she was married to Derek Redmond. As I was always taught "if you can't say anything good about someone, say nothing" I shall leave it there.

All right Hyacinth? I'm sure she speaks very highly of you

IwantToRetire · 14/12/2025 18:58

ThePoshUns · 14/12/2025 18:53

I am so thrilled for her, she has been such a champion of women’s rights and protecting women in sport. I also take my hat off to Kemi for nominating, because Kemi unlike Kier does know what a woman is.

I didn't realise Kemi had nominated her. I was trying to work out how her nomination could have happened!

Now I understand.

ThePoshUns · 14/12/2025 18:53

I am so thrilled for her, she has been such a champion of women’s rights and protecting women in sport. I also take my hat off to Kemi for nominating, because Kemi unlike Kier does know what a woman is.

SwirlyGates · 14/12/2025 17:34

Beerlzebub · 14/12/2025 09:30

Here's the actual interview, that Wales Onlined quoted:

Archive link: https://archive.is/3g334

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15379291/House-Lords-afford-heat-home-cancelled-Olympic-swimming-champion-Sharron-Davies.html

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That's a great article. I like the picture highlighting "a heckler" (beardy guy with nothing to lose if transwomen compete in women's sports).

"People like her [my mother] fought so hard for women's rights. The generations behind us don't realise how easy it is to lose those rights." So true. I look back at pictures of Afghanistan and Iran in the 1970s and think, "What the hell happened?"

And I hadn't realised Sharron was struggling for money due to standing up for women.

Raquelos · 13/12/2025 18:03

IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth · 10/12/2025 18:23

I lived near Ms Davies for many years when she was married to Derek Redmond. As I was always taught "if you can't say anything good about someone, say nothing" I shall leave it there.

The idea that a woman needs to be universally liked, or indeed must be nice and polite and kind to everyone who has ever crossed her path in order to be acknowledged as an expert in her field or allowed a voice, seems wildly out of place on this board.

PrawnofthePatriarchy · 12/12/2025 18:30

Excellent news. Very well deserved

SionnachRuadh · 12/12/2025 16:54

If Kemi does nothing else as LOTO, she's done something we can be grateful for.

(I also like her nominating Simon Heffer and John Redwood. Not that I don't have disagreements with them, but they're exactly the kind of people who should be in the Lords.)

BezMills · 12/12/2025 16:48

As a fellow mediocre man, I'd love to have his confidence

Floisme · 12/12/2025 08:46

Well I was all set to loudly cheer and marvel at what a brave and strong minded woman Sharron Davies must be, given that she could so easily have carried on taking the pundit money and keeping her mouth shut. But now I've read that an anonymous person on the internet says they knew her 25 years ago and didn't like her, and even worse, that someone else knows someone who once spoke to her .... well I guess I'll have to rethink everything.

(Edited for crimes against commas)

Mochudubh · 12/12/2025 08:46

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 22:43

Derek Redmond who shagged around on his wife Sharron? That Derek Redmond?

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Ha, I must admit I read that first post and thought "I didn't realise that Sharron Davies had been married to Mr Motivator", then I googled, different Derek.

(I'm not really into sport).

TheaBrandt1 · 12/12/2025 08:33

Well am similar age and live locally to Sharron and in our demographic she is worshipped as a goddess so I call bullshit too.

BlueLegume · 12/12/2025 08:30

@Ereshkigalangcleg well spotted!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 12/12/2025 08:29

He’s on another thread today, confidently being wrong about the SC judgment.

BlueLegume · 12/12/2025 08:27

@ThatBlackCat I suspect @IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth and @CiderandSprouts are linked to our old friend on this thread howesitgoin….. who seems to have taken a vacation.

ThatBlackCat · 12/12/2025 05:09

This is wonderful news.

Strange that @IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth and @CiderandSprouts both joined around November, and each only have 35 and 37 posts to their name, and have only posted on this thread in FWR and no other thread in FWR only this one.

Yeah. Thought so. I call bullshit. They don't even try do they.

Slothtoes · 12/12/2025 01:32

worrisomeasset · 10/12/2025 22:49

I don’t give a shit about whether she’s ‘nice’ in real life or a bit of a diva. I know that on most issues her political views are very different to mine but again, I don’t care. I do care that at a time when very few people in sport dared to put their heads above the parapet when it came to defending fair sport for women, she did so and was vilified as a terf for doing so and had opportunities taken from her as a result. She has been an effective and knowledgeable advocate for keeping men out of women’s sport and I’m happy she’ll have another platform to talk sense about sport.

This exactly. With some festive bells on

Pleasantsort2 · 12/12/2025 01:11

BlueLegume · 10/12/2025 18:21

Excellent news. I was a swimmer in the 70s and 80s and the injustice of Sharron competing against the Eastern Block swimmers really switched me onto injustice. She is also a massive voice of reason on many issues.

Absolutely. I remember it well. I didn't understand it all as a young girl, when it all came out about the cheating. It was just so unfair on Sharron.

Mum4MrA · 11/12/2025 18:56

Wonderful news and very much deserved for her standing up for women. 🍾🍾

Beerlzebub · 11/12/2025 14:17

FKAT · 11/12/2025 14:04

All the women who have ever done something worth doing have thousands of people who 'know' them lined up to complain about them not being nice or ladylike or neighbourly. If you haven't got a group of people willing to show up on the internet to say how you're such a cow in real life, then you're doing something wrong.

Ha ha, so right. "She didn't smile and simper like a laydee is supposed to!" 🙄

FKAT · 11/12/2025 14:04

All the women who have ever done something worth doing have thousands of people who 'know' them lined up to complain about them not being nice or ladylike or neighbourly. If you haven't got a group of people willing to show up on the internet to say how you're such a cow in real life, then you're doing something wrong.

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