This has never happened. Will never happen. We've never had that kind of situation where we have not had a worrying number of people suffering economically. Stop waiting for fairy tales. It would be lovely but no political system has ever managed to fix it - we should try obviously but ... should we not have bothered getting the vote because serious poverty had not been dealt with? Should the women who got us the vote have been out campaigning against the much worse poverty levels at the time? Or the women in 60s and 70 that won so many rights for us?
When do we women get to stand up for ourselves? If not now when? Why do women always have to be back of queue and who are vocal Labour supporters who just want to put the boot in one the Tories to put women's rights there?
I tell you something - those women with the fewest financial resources will suffer the most from a Labour government's policies on women's rights and free speech. Poorer women cannot choose private medical care, they have might not the education or confidence perhaps to demand their rights to single sex care or wards for themselves, their daughters or their mothers? They often don't have wealthy friends with spare rooms and are therefore dependent on women's refuges if they want to leave an abusive relationships. How are they served by this attitude, that their sex based rights are less important than an economy which will never be truly fixed (you surely don't believe it will be)?
What about those working class women who end up in prison for relatively minor offences or for looking after drugs or weapons or lying for boyfriend or a son? Or those who are forced into sex work? Or working class lesbians pestered to expanding their dating pool? Putting the boot in on the Tories more important than them?
Imagine being the first in your family to get to university and yet be too uncomfortable to speak your mind, or use the loos!
All women will be thrown under the bus by Labour but the poorest women will suffer the most. A vote for Labour lets all women down.
Keir Starmer this very evening promised to modernise the gender recognition act ( twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1582788329288134656 )- this evening! When you'd think he would think he is on the verge of power and not to rock the boat - he is either so confident he can ride roughshod over women, or does not care, or is too daft to see - he takes Labour women's votes for granted. He thinks people will vote for him whatever and he can please his noisy activists at our expense. I've voted Labour often in the past - they've made it clear they don't want my vote anymore. I cannot truly help poor women by voting Labour - I can help all women by not voting Labour.