I guess it was straightforward to be left leaning/feminist/the majority on MN over a decade ago.
I mean, Labour would always be the party of women's and minority's (reasonable) rights.
Unfortunately that ship has sailed.
Labour offer only platitudes to women, a great example being Starmer's bold pronouncement he'd reduce VAWG by 50%. Not only was this never practical as an aim, thus unethical to promote it, but he's taking no steps at all, save for the photo op/click bait "policy" of anti misogyny classes in schools.
All the while, school kids are left alone to deal with the untested social experiment that is mixed toilets and showers.
His proud claim to reduce poverty by 450k re ending the 2-child benefit cap...truthfully, he never wanted to do this, sure it's a good fit on principle for him, but he had to be dragged to it by his ever burgeoning recalcitrant backbenchers.
And now, the most visible things that show he's no friend of women and kids, Phillipson tedious dragging of heels on enacting the ECHR advice for rolling out the SC ruling, and the Streeting PB Trial.
I totally get why any politically aware, especially left leaning woman on here, in the UK generally, would feel hugely unsure voting for Farage, and also see the Tories as no friend of women (food banks, 14 years of avoiding sorting old age care, no house building for young Brits becoming adults, the two years of total inaction from the Sunak govt in absolutely not nailing the gender law shortfall).
Despite Badenoch's apparent GC TERFery credentials, she was ok to go along, indeed encouraged DEI in the NHS and schools by her refusal to step on Peak Woke influence throughout the Civil Service and relevant Quangos.
But as usual, when talking the relative merits of Tories v Labour on what matters to women, the Tories are guilty of omission (lack of interest, zero resistance to woke overreach, lack of prioritisation)...Labour actively carry out policies that they believe will teach citizens to be better.
Reform and women's rights, what advantages them and their kids?
I know one thing...someone in govt has to finally stand up and look the Lanyard Class/Blob in the eye, and say things are going to revert to biological women being both the default, and the A to Z of public policy.
10k per week Gen Z/young Millennials cast to a lifetime of mental health diagnoses and dislocation from the world of work, to add to the 500k already claiming, just cannot continue, especially the cursory examinations and lack of interviews that are leading to this
...in the 70s we were close to rioting when the dole queues spiked 500k-1m, yet today these figures on ADHD etc permanent sick notes raises just a murmur in the media.
How many foreign criminals are we keeping, how many asylum hotels are staying, how much new council housing for migrants is going to carry on when virtually every young Brit cannot easily, or ever, get a place of their own, not forgetting our absolute poor on waiting lists for years?
So, it's all very well Starmer saying a vote for Reform is Route One to a fascist state, he still offers nothing as an alternative, 18 months into power, happier in a plane going to a G7 meet, or a Ukraine conference, or a sit down with Trump, rather than brainstorming the solutions .
Remember when he said "the Labour Party last, the British people first"...well, in 18 months, his allegiance is still in hock to Labour class politics, his selfish backbenchers, and his union overlords.