Sexism/other issues in the Green party England & Wales - Discussion Thread 3

It's amazing, isn't it. She uses circular language against women, and circular language to evade saying biological men should access women's spaces.
To choose a hill to die on where you spit in the face of women, but avoid fully admitting to the thing that leads you to letting women down, is a marvel of obfuscation.
The slicing of the onion is getting thinner and thinner.

It is interesting that she won't come outright and say that transwomen should use women's single sex spaces. The TRAs won't be happy with her.

Greens still seem to be doing well in London. But then Hackney and Haringey are likely strongholds

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/council-byelection-results-hackney-haringey-ealing-green-party-labour-b1287719.html

These people are on a different planet. Which normal resident anywhere in UK who owns where they live, thinks they somehow don't need to pay council tax?
And this is the guy who thinks he should have a major say in how the country is run, set our taxes.
We are absolutely cursed with the worst political class, entitled and incompetent.

Well, quite!

@womendeserveequalhumanrights I can only conclude the Green Party is filled with dimwits and misogynists. That's the only possible explanation.

Well, we knew that already.

You mean the GE result in 28/29, or Manchester locally?
Once left voters see there's momentum in tactically voting for the left party most likely to oust Reform, I can see those second places rack up for Farage.

But it won't be close in the end. When it appears that Labour and Reform stay neck and neck, Green and LD voters will en masse switch to Labour, probably some Tory voters too.
At the GE as well, Reform will probably average 35% all over the UK, but score plenty of second places.

Maybe Polanski should have paid his council tax first before making this donation?

School budgets would mean that they could only afford to hire male teachers.

Just bonkers.

It's so bonkers only a man could have written that, it would be so terrible for women in the workplace. And to be anti-Csection at the same time which is something where women should be able to make that choice.

I mean apart from anything else how's it going to work for cash strapped schools and teachers (mainly female at Primary). They'd need a number of extra teachers at least, to cover all the absences. And what does this mean for continuity for all the SEND children who need consistent 1 to 1a when all the female TRAS (again, most of them) are having to take 3 days off every month.

I can only conclude the Green Party is filled with dimwits and misogynists. That's the only possible explanation.

I posted this on the free birthing thread, but it's only a few years since the greens were advocating natural birth and were explicitly anti caesarian sections. Beth Rigby was still having to take Polanski to task about it earlier this year

It's about using terminology about things that only happen to women; menstruation, pregnancy, even stuff that no woman wants to have like cervical cancer, without excluding men with lady feelz.

Obviously menstrual leave is something only women would be eligible for. Saying so in simple English would make men who identify as women vanish... apparently. As if it would be that easy. Even if we wanted to,

The language is dehumanising and the policy would almost certainly lead to employers being less likely to employ women. Also, it gives a false impression of how difficult life is during menstruation. I had endometriosis. Day 1 of my period was often pretty bad but even when things were at their worst I didn't need three days off every month.

How so? In what way can menstrual leave be about not excluding men.

I doubt if it's just about gender addled women. I suspect they're barely a consideration. It's about not excluding men.

Thanks for the link, it's such as gross insult to reduce a human to a body function, all to the placate gender addled women, how can they be impressed by this. I know they're fruitloops but FFS do they have no self respect or dignity at all.
I wonder if the fact that's it's man proposing this is significant, it's not them that want it, it's just an excuse for another man to control women.

Dear old greens unable to come up with a more handy description to name the members of The Menstruating Community

https://spectator.com/article/revealed-the-green-party-proposal-for-menstrual-leave/

Doubtful. They'll double down.

Though you can see how this might mutate. Your Party had left wing activists chase out Gaza independents Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohammed on the grounds they are transphobic landlords. They themselves cited Islamophobia.

Most of this Global Majority ppl are not likely to do the same as many if not most are Muslim themselves. How they accommodate the LGBTQ faction when say an independent Palestine starts enacting it's socially conservative policy is anyone's guess

Thanks for the link, I'm getting a John Hurt in the diner vibe.

"More than 30 local election candidates were accused of spreading such venom on social media last month, leading to nearly a dozen suspensions and two arrests. Yet this, the GMG insists, is an example of persecution of “Global Majority candidates and those who support Palestinian liberation”, supporting an atmosphere that supposedly “demonises migrants and Muslims” as well as “women”.

When they finally burst out in all their slimy, vicious glory will the Pally Panderers finally see the light and be as sicken by they're useful idiot actions as I am.