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Burnham effigy stabbed at trans rights rally

95 replies

SidewaysOtter · 13/07/2026 22:51

I mean, WTF? How many more warnings of actual violence do there have to be before the risk these people pose will be taken seriously, especially just days after Anne Widdicombe was murdered?

And why am I not surprised that Green councillors were in attendance Hmm

https://www.thetimes.com/article/90b8043b-0dd7-45d0-a873-dacad5c0f227?shareToken=041a5e5b26f13a34639c5dac688e48e0&ver=article

Green councillors at rally where protesters stabbed Andy Burnham effigy

A protest outside Hackney Town Hall in east London called on the Green-run council to refuse to implement guidance on single-sex spaces

https://www.thetimes.com/article/90b8043b-0dd7-45d0-a873-dacad5c0f227?shareToken=041a5e5b26f13a34639c5dac688e48e0&ver=article

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MarieDeGournay · 14/07/2026 19:54

Has Burnham's team made any comment about this, does anybody know?

NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/07/2026 18:14

Was the minute of silence whilst they watched the others acting out their deepest fantasies and getting all stabby, by any chance? Just a few moments where they try to think of how they can rationalise away how much these people enjoyed simulating murder? Or were they just thinking 'Oh, I'd really love to be doing that as well but it might prove a little awkward later'?

Womanofcustard · 14/07/2026 17:51

It’s voodoo!

MsGreying · 14/07/2026 16:35

Dollymylove · 14/07/2026 10:42

I thought Andy Pandy was a trans ally?
He did state that trans women should be allowed in womens spaces

And then I think he spun right around and made some noise in the other direction.

The man is TwoTurnBurnham.

GreenFootstool · 14/07/2026 15:58

SinnerBoy · 14/07/2026 12:11

Compare and contrast it with the paratroopers, who were disciplined, for using pictures of Corbyn, for target practice:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-48868071

Can't compare that scenario really - they were disciplined by their employers, and mostly for being caught / bringing the service into disrepute. The Forces also need to be seen to be politically neutral.

Wishesandhorses · 14/07/2026 15:53

SidewaysOtter · 13/07/2026 22:51

I mean, WTF? How many more warnings of actual violence do there have to be before the risk these people pose will be taken seriously, especially just days after Anne Widdicombe was murdered?

And why am I not surprised that Green councillors were in attendance Hmm

https://www.thetimes.com/article/90b8043b-0dd7-45d0-a873-dacad5c0f227?shareToken=041a5e5b26f13a34639c5dac688e48e0&ver=article

Ffs the tee hee hee coy face.... look at meeee playing silly buggers. So bloody childish, entirely without boundaries, and there'll be floods of tears and reams of listed vulnerabilities and excuses if any real consequences ever actually happen.

ElenOfTheWays · 14/07/2026 15:41

RoseInAPot · 14/07/2026 09:09

Oh this has already happened. IIRC Posie Parker had the police on her doorstep for being ‘untoward about paedophiles’.

You're kidding!

And I just bet they don't go after those vigilante paedophile entrapment gangs.

Just women who say unpleasant things about nonces online.

UtopiaPlanitia · 14/07/2026 15:40

As previous posters have stated, we have this kind of sectarian behaviour every year in N Ireland - flags of countries and pictures of politicians are burned on bonfires because the bonfire attendees hate them so much.

It's so strange seeing the growth of sectarian politics in GB when, for decades, things like this mostly only happened in NI as a result of our fractured/divided society, and the majority view in GB was to view us as a bizarre, regressive outlier within the UK/Ireland.

I wouldn't wish this type of politics on any country because it never achieves anything positive and it always ends up with people being killed for their political beliefs or their background. It leads to us not seeing other people as human.

Lovelyview · 14/07/2026 14:45

Binnyforthewin · 14/07/2026 12:01

Makes no sense Burnaham is pro-trans!

Because you can never do enough for the cult. Fortunately this means they'll eventually disappear down their own purity spiral.

Dollymylove · 14/07/2026 13:14

TheThirteenthFairy · 14/07/2026 12:13

In 2022 Kellie-Jay Keen was visited by police officers who admonished her for being 'untoward about paedophiles.' This is actually true. It is on record.

Oh yes I can absolutely believe its true.
How the hell have we come to this?

littleburn · 14/07/2026 12:59

These people are utterly unhinged.

WrongKindOfFeminist · 14/07/2026 12:51

EmeraldRoulette · 13/07/2026 23:04

Well, yeah

To be honest, I don't like the whole effigy thing - because I think dehumanising politicians or anyone for that matter is a dangerous game.

This is absolutely awful. I initially thought this sort of person was just really nasty, but now I'm genuinely beginning to wonder if there is something clinically wrong with people who behave like this.

to be honest a lot of things that have happened recently have made me wonder if some people are missing the empathy gene.

Psychopathy and personality disorders are not all that rare. I've seen rough estimates of 1 in a 100.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/14sn7XmYwXkKYDbLpPhMqk9/what-we-get-wrong-about-psychopaths

WrongKindOfFeminist · 14/07/2026 12:49

WTF?!

Honestly, I think I'm jaded, but these extremists continue to shock me.

TheThirteenthFairy · 14/07/2026 12:13

In 2022 Kellie-Jay Keen was visited by police officers who admonished her for being 'untoward about paedophiles.' This is actually true. It is on record.

SinnerBoy · 14/07/2026 12:11

SurreySenMum26 · 14/07/2026 06:41

Ok so how is this tolerated under Prevent? Either its not tolerated or its a joke. It's a bit like Rochdale where we mustn't upset feelings. Soon enough we will be so woke that we will be to scared to to upset paedophiles rights.

Politicians will be too scared to stand and all we will have left is extreme views.

Compare and contrast it with the paratroopers, who were disciplined, for using pictures of Corbyn, for target practice:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-48868071

Binnyforthewin · 14/07/2026 12:01

Makes no sense Burnaham is pro-trans!

Minasama · 14/07/2026 11:52

UprightCitizensBrigade · 14/07/2026 00:52

Stabbing an effigy of the incoming prime minister is deranged behaviour. These people have mental health problems that need serious attention.

They are the trans community which you could argue by definition has a mental health problem. However this is manifesting in ways that adversely impact other people and society, not just themselves,

Lovelyview · 14/07/2026 11:41

These people make me sick. I don't understand where their brains are at.

plsbekinddelicate · 14/07/2026 11:36

I hope there will be a suitable police response to this.

minimuffs2651 · 14/07/2026 11:28

SidewaysOtter · 14/07/2026 10:58

Ah but he has blotted his copybook by expressing support for the SC ruling. Which is treason, because Heaven forfend that the Prime Minister should respect the law...

So he panders to them but they turn on him like vultures anyway. Can't say I told you so....
Not that he deserves any kind of violence directed toward him in any way. This is appalling.

minimuffs2651 · 14/07/2026 11:26

I was reading that screens and brain rot literally damage kid's brains. I don't know if it's true but could it explain this level of madness/lack of empathy?

ElizaMulvil · 14/07/2026 11:25

snowbear22 · 14/07/2026 10:25

If it was an isolated incedent, OK whatever, but there is a pattern of violence by the far Left - the Trans movement has been characterised by violence from the start but to demonise Andy Burnham??? He's been so pro LGBT rights in Manchester.
That is genuinely disturbing.

The 'far Left' doesn't believe men can be women btw, ( or vice versa) cf the Communist Party of Britain who definitely don't.

nicepotoftea · 14/07/2026 10:59

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 14/07/2026 10:35

This is a few years old, but it looks at some of the numbers:

https://archive.ph/5IMYr

There was also the statement that Chase Strangio was forced to admit in the US Supreme Court that “there is no evidence in some—in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide. And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare”

eta link:

https://www.city-journal.org/article/aclu-attorney-confesses-transgender-suicide-claim-is-a-myth

Edited

https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from=2000-10-01&to=2026-09-30&country=all&category=all&view=list&filter=united%20kingdom

Given the focus on trans day of remembrance, I think it is fair for us to assume that the trans community collect data with the same or more diligence than 'Counting Dead Women'. If we therefore assume that the linked table is accurate, then, happily, it is very rare for a trans person to die because of actual violence, and suicide is also rare. It is of course difficult to assign suicide to one cause.

Remembering Our Dead - Reports - TDoR 2001

1 Oct 2000 to 30 Sep 2026; filtered by 'united kingdom'

https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?category=all&country=all&filter=united+kingdom&from=2000-10-01&to=2026-09-30&view=list

SidewaysOtter · 14/07/2026 10:58

Dollymylove · 14/07/2026 10:42

I thought Andy Pandy was a trans ally?
He did state that trans women should be allowed in womens spaces

Ah but he has blotted his copybook by expressing support for the SC ruling. Which is treason, because Heaven forfend that the Prime Minister should respect the law...

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Examsareoverwoohoo · 14/07/2026 10:58

KTheGrey · 14/07/2026 09:30

Well - except on November 5th when we do love an effigy of a current PM or other politician we don't really like. Burning rather than stabbing mind.

Edited

But that's a long dead figure who lived in a long ago historical time when beheading your enemies was a regular occurrence. Surely we don't want to go back to those days?

I'm just glad it was an effigy of Burnham and not some poor anonymous woman they decided to stab. Hopefully now he'll understand why we think they pose a real risk to our safety.

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