Page 2 | Sharron Davies peerage nomination

IkaBaar · 11/12/2025 12:50

I used to be a competitive swimmer and I looked up to her then and now! Her campaigning for fair sport (for women but also about doping) is fantastic. She also speaks up about the scandal of infected blood products as her mother was infected and subsequently died.

Citrusbergamia · 11/12/2025 12:44

wonderful news!

ClareVoiance · 11/12/2025 11:17

*worrisomeasset
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.
Hear, hear.

TheaBrandt1 · 10/12/2025 23:23

She’s brave. Properly really brave. Stood up for what was right at cost to herself. You can’t not respect that.

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 23:16

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.

Good point. She and Martina Navratilova really made people who hadn't thought much about it (ie men), sit up and listen.

And of course the transes abused them and tried to cancel them 🙄

So, well done Sharron!

LeftieRightsHoarder · 10/12/2025 23:13

Good news! Sharron deserves the honour, and women deserve to have her decent, sensible voice speaking up for us in the House of Lords.

NotAtMyAge · 10/12/2025 22:51

FetchezLaVache · 10/12/2025 22:35

= "Oh, please beg me to tell you what SD did to earn my opprobrium".

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😂This is where I still miss the laugh reaction emoji.

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.

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 22:43

IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth · 10/12/2025 22:40

This is EXACTLY what she was like and why she was very unpopular locally (unlike Derek Redmond who played for our rugby team and was a total gent).

She may speak very well in the Lords on women's rights though I hate the hypocrisy of Labour shoving yet more Peers in the second chamber when it should be abolished.

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

IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth · 10/12/2025 22:40

CiderandSprouts · 10/12/2025 19:06

@IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth I used to work for a v large company. My manager told me SD had once telephoned in and actually said, " do you know who I am?"

No,said my manager! 😂

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This is EXACTLY what she was like and why she was very unpopular locally (unlike Derek Redmond who played for our rugby team and was a total gent).

She may speak very well in the Lords on women's rights though I hate the hypocrisy of Labour shoving yet more Peers in the second chamber when it should be abolished.

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 22:37

FetchezLaVache · 10/12/2025 22:35

= "Oh, please beg me to tell you what SD did to earn my opprobrium".

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Ha ha. And if it doesn't come with a diagram we're not interested! 😆

FetchezLaVache · 10/12/2025 22:35

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.

= "Oh, please beg me to tell you what SD did to earn my opprobrium".

Manderleyagain · 10/12/2025 22:19

She will be great in the Lords.

akkakk · 10/12/2025 22:05

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.

I also lived near her for many years, used to chat cars and misc other things!
She was lovely then, and though I haven’t seen her for a few years, it looks as though she is still on form…

great news and brings her campaigning even more into the public eye

impossibletoday · 10/12/2025 22:04

I thought this was well known back in August!!
Or has it just been confirmed ir something.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5391049-sharron-davies-to-become-conservative-peer?reply=146396108

SirChenjins · 10/12/2025 21:43

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 21:31

And yay Kemi!!!

Definitely! Thank god for the strong women standing up for women's rights and refusing to centre the menz 😊

ClareVoiance · 10/12/2025 21:32

I was a child in the 1970s and she was a role model. Hurrah!

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 21:31

And yay Kemi!!!

littlbrowndog · 10/12/2025 21:28

Yay Sharron ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💃

NotAtMyAge · 10/12/2025 21:27

ProfessorIDareSay · 10/12/2025 21:12

My point was to clarify for the OP how she was nominated. OP said:

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

That ok with you?

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Apologies. My misunderstanding.

NotAtMyAge · 10/12/2025 21:26

RaininSummer · 10/12/2025 21:15

Very pleased to hear she was nominated.

Me too.

RaininSummer · 10/12/2025 21:15

Very pleased to hear she was nominated.

ProfessorIDareSay · 10/12/2025 21:12

NotAtMyAge · 10/12/2025 20:45

The Leader of the Opposition is allowed a certain number of nominations in every Honours List, so what's your point?

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My point was to clarify for the OP how she was nominated. OP said:

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

That ok with you?

dynamiccactus · 10/12/2025 21:06

NotAtMyAge · 10/12/2025 20:45

The Leader of the Opposition is allowed a certain number of nominations in every Honours List, so what's your point?

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Even Kemi can do something right on occasion!

socialdilemmawhattodo · 10/12/2025 21:04

Greyskybluesky · 10/12/2025 18:25

Huh?
But you thought you'd come and post that?

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No fair enough she does. But does @IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoththink Sharron might have changed in the years since?