The Women's Equality Party is shutting down

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Leaders of the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) propose to wind up their organisation. A statement issued by its executive committee, endorsed by co-founders Sandi Toksvig and Catherine Mayer, declares:

“The truth is, despite the phenomenal efforts of our team, tireless activists and brilliant members, we can no longer see a way to make this work. Everybody is struggling, particularly women.

“Populism has gained ground and people are more and more polarised. We cannot, with the resources we have, and the political landscape as it is, deliver the change we were founded to make.”

It’s not because their work is done, or that equality – or anything like it – has been achieved. As with all smaller parties who lack philanthropic plutocrats to fund them, they are short of money – though the party says this is not the principal reason for the end of this feminist dream.

The WEP’s executive committee argues that the party’s earlier, successful strategy was not to catapult itself into power but to act as a pressure group, and to contest elections so that the other parties were pushed into taking equality and the feminist cause more seriously – thereby changing policy and attitudes.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/politics-explained/womens-equality-party-wep-politics-b2638262.html

They were a bit of a damp Squibb. I can't think of anything they are actually meant to have achieved.

Great, they lost lots of people when they put men first.

Hoist by their own petard!

I stopped supporting them when they said men could be women. Pointless organisation and potentially dangerous.

Everyone who pays attention to these sorts of things knows what Sandi Toksvig's views are on putting the "men" in women so of course they made themselves unelectable. I don't even really understand why they bothered. They clearly don't care that much about the genuine rights of actual women and they don't like thinking or talking about the hard questions.
A political party needs to be able to face challenges head on, to debate (pretty key competency in politics) without running away, and to represent the people it claims to represent. It didn't manage any of this.
No real loss to anyone, then.

Don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out Sandi.

All of the above 😐

"Populism has gained ground...." She still doesn't get it does she? A real shame, I used to really like her but now I switch off, turn away, turn the page when she appears. Maybe she should have called it the Men's Equality Party.

Small parties unless on a regional or nationalist basis are unlikely ever to achieve anything more than a pressure group can.

No surprise.

We are never going to get PR in national elections or indeed outside Scotland, local councils.

Sandi Toksvig* 🙄*

"despite the phenomenal efforts of our team, tireless activists"

That should read 'because of', rather than 'despite'.

Its a shame, because I had high hopes at first, but as soon as they agreed with TWAW nonsense, I lost all interest in them.