Zoe Garbett - Green mayor for Hackney

Left-wing councils have launched a co-ordinated effort to defy rules on single-sex spaces, with some refusing to make staff run services on the basis of biological sex.

Labour, Green and Liberal Democrat authorities said they would resist implementing the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) code, which came into force on Wednesday, as women pushed legal action to force public bodies to comply with the law.

The leaders of six London boroughs — Lambeth, Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest — made a joint commitment to keep their services “inclusive” and warned the rules “will feel like an attack” on transgender and non-binary residents.

In a joint letter, they said: “Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identities are fundamentally valid.” They described the code as “harmful to the rights of trans people” and said: “We won’t put our staff in the impossible position of policing entry to public spaces.”

Full article at https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ehrc-guidance-single-sex-spaces-xslts8v3w

And at https://archive.is/ft943

It was probably the one where trans rights activists stabbed an effigy of Andy Burnham in the eyes.

Thanks for taking the time to make it out.

I wonder if some photo library sent the Jerusalem Post some random demo outside Hackney Town Hall or that was linked to the vote about Haifa.

But yes, omnicause is as plausible as Green logic!

I thought at first that it said "Christian Law".

Zoomed in and it says:" Cllr Dylan Law/ Hackney Council/ Transaction 4 Housing Justice"
There are also 2 very small words that I can't read.

Google tells me that Dylan Law is Statutory Deputy Mayor of Hackney Cabinet Member for Safer Homes and Housing Services Cllr for Hackney Downs.

I see that a couple of the people with the big white banner have got TRA flags. The one with pink hair probably identify as trans.

The omnicause strikes again.

(Edited to fix a typo)

They wanted to purchase Springfield Park for their own exclusive use iirc. But the borough wouldn't play ball. They aren't twaw that's for sure. Though it's hard to see the issue ever impinging upon them. The children attend their own schools. Lubavitch? My Hasidic neighbours in Upper Clapton were probably Conservative minded but seemed rather uninterested in national politics.

Just no, no , no . Slightly less bonkers than the Scottish Greens but that isn't saying much.

You're not expecting logic and consistency from this crew, are you?

Well that really is confusing.

I wonder whether the picture was from some other demo?!

I can't read the something law, but it's 'trans action for housing justice'.
I think.

I noticed that.
I note that she's shifting the blame onto the officers...

Sorry obviously didn't describe what I was talking about.

The left hand picture has a banner top right of that picture that says something like:

something Law
Hackney Council
** TransAction
4something Justice

????????????

Just wonder if this was a 2 for 1 protester !!

Haha yes.

She doesn’t strike me as the brightest spark.

There's an error in that letter. Garbett says it's a 'regretful' error, not a regrettable one. Ignoramus

@IwantToRetire

It says "If you are against co-existance, you are pro-war"

I see we have a transactivist in the left hand picture

Sorry to add another post but I meant to ask this last night.

Can someone with good eye sight look at the picture in this article https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-903988

In the left hand picture what does the square sign at the top right hand side say?

Have just seen they have opened an online survey for people to comment on the decision. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/29/hackney-votes-to-cut-ties-with-israeli-city/

Have now seen there is a link to the apology letter. https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20260730-Mayor-Garbett-to-Mayor-Yahav-Haifa.pdf

As I posted up thread, this really is student politics crashing into blunder after blunder as they dont understand they are now in charge of the borough as a whole, and a council that has process and procedures. And without being ageist, because I was like this when I was young, you dont know what you dont know. But as councillors they have staff to advise them.

Complete muppets.

Look at the photo with what is now a cliched demo pic. Wow, holding flares. And all of this isn't about for instance widening the understanding of their view point or whatever. it is just self indulgent, puerile, virtue signalling to their own tiny group!

(In case anyone didn't read it, I did post a link to a later article that said someone had pointed out their blunder with the date, and so they had to write a letter saying sorry. Would love to see the text of that letter!)

It's so depressing to live where these authoritarian teenagers are now in charge

The Mayor of Hackney has written to Haifa’s Mayor requesting a response on the borough’s intention to cancel its twinning with the Israeli city and specifically asking him to respond “by 7 October”, in a move which has been described as “appalling” and “sickening” by leading Jewish communal organisations.
from
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/fury-as-green-party-mayor-requests-israeli-reply-to-de-twinning-motion-by-7-october/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTYOW1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBDQ2R1YVZHMlczRlh1dkZvc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhs2TfHku4itimBzQTCyn85QqA7pHBTbKtWXqWEdRP0fLPdAHHe3N_hVMYTm_aem_5wJa0FxaQyaxLhk2B2j6oA

Apparently it was all a terrible mistake.

This behaviour is honestly sickening. Nothing like that in a large organisation goes through only one set of hands. Somebody or several somebodies set up the consultation period and okayed the end date. Somebody drafted the letter to Haifa's mayor, and somebody typed it up. Zoe Garbutt signed it.

And nobody noticed the date? They are all either spectacularly ignorant (which is hard impossible to believe, given that they've been so absorbed by this cause for so long), or they are deliberately trolling Jews and Israelis.

So they are either ignorant and do not deserve an iota of power, or they are absolute bastards and do not deserve an iota of power.

The council also provoked anger by scheduling a public consultation on its proposal to end on Oct 7, the third anniversary of the Hamas attack.

The authority, which was taken over by the Greens at the local elections in May, was forced to issue an apology and change the consultation end date after it was described as “shocking”, “insensitive” and a “new low for the Greens”.

Hackney votes to cut ties with Israeli city

Even allowing for green self admiring right on-ness I suspect this is just another example that the reality of their world is so limited by their narrow focus that she will (and still is) oblivious.

But also raises the question that the Mayor of any council is not a lone operator. So strange that she is writing this letter as an individual rather than whoever would normally follow up a Council decision.

Of course, it is just possible that someone drafted the letter for her. And just wonder if this inappropriate deadline is something others are aware of and somehow failed to point it out to her!

https://x.com/daniel_sugarman/status/2082509738110034015?s=46&t=ZX_bLozRqm8etdGICMcAvA

I saw this tweet too. Not sure if it is covered in the earlier information but the date she is asking for the mayor of the city for a response - by 7 October.

Yes that what I said about why there are any Tory Councillors in Hackney because none of the other "diverse" communities would ever vote for them.

And in fact whether earlier in this thread or another one, whether in Hackney or elsewhere, the increase in support for the Greens had little to do with green politics or their other positions. It was about getting Labour out.

There is a long long tradition of only ever voting Labour.

The problem is that our political system, or use ourselves, have not created an alternative party, and why voters (particularly after Starmer) were happy to vote for whichever party would get rid of Labour.

Although as an aside, there really needs to be a discussion about voters! According to latest polls in less than 2 weeks Labour are now polling higher than Reform.

Are people in the UK really so gullible to clever marketing.

We seem to fall for all sorts of nonsense, and then blame the polticians rather than the fact we, well some of us did, voted for them.