Brilliant night.
So many amazing women. And famous faces.
Sophie 'shit or get off the pot' Walker banged on about being slow and listening and taking notes. Good of her to brave the 'opposition' though.
Then Heather B-E took the mic. I'm not sure if either of them knew each other was there, prior to that.
And said, something like right well I shall tell you exactly what happened.
And explained how she was hounded out. At which point Sophie could be heard saying none of that's true.
I wanted to shout out, well bloody let's have it then. Right here, right now, let's hear it all.
But no one seemed to have the heart for it.
There was a woman from the Lib Dems there, saying she was listening.
Lucy firefighter was amazing. A really strong speaker. With fire in her belly.
The protesters started yelling as the meeting began. Then disappeared, presumably bogging off to the pub, because it was freezing. And showed up again 20 minutes before the end.
Interestingly, I recognised the one in the orange neon jacket. The exact same woman that was yelling burn it down at the speakers corner meeting.
It seems as though they only have a handful of foot soldiers that they deploy. All women. Funny that.
Miranda Yardley set up a counter chant, to their transwomen are women, yelling women don't have penises and transwomen are men.
The protesters started to crowd on the doors as people were trying to leave and Helen Steel (I think?!) stretched out her arms to create a channel for people to leave. Brave.
She inadvertently touched Orange Neon, who, on a knife edge of righteous tension, barked at her (don't touch MEEE) at which point Helen said well bloody well move back then. The 'you twit' was silent, obvs.
A bunch of misguided, passionate kids, really. And not a man in sight, freezing their arse off and putting themselves on the line.
Brilliant, too, at the pub afterwards.
Lilly Maynard, Stephanie Davis Arai, Julia long, Miranda Yardley, Maria Mac, and Alan and her husband, Marcus (who dissected Julia Seranos theories), Venice Alan and loads more.
Mumsnetters were prevalent, throughout.
During the meeting, we got several mentions, and every time someone said the word mumsnetters, a big cheer went up across the venue.
We were told, in no uncertain terms, that politicians are 'petrified' of us.
I'm reminded of the that quote by Caroline Aherne.
So, Mr Politician, what first attracted your concern over the TWELVE MILLION women on mumsnet?
For me, the evening was shot through with solidarity and unity. A wonderful coming together of like-minded people, each drawing inspiration from the next.
The speakers were good some of them were bloody good. But little was talked about that is not already regularly debated here.
Mumsnet is at the centre of this.
We are rated and feted.
And mumsnetters made it, quite simply, an awesome experience. Drinking, laughing, talking, piss taking and snorting.
You women rock.