What about a Mumsnet MP?

[BlytheByName]

I've been reading, learning and posting occasionally here for nearly a year now and believe the issue of the erasure of 'woman' and the attack on women and girls' rights is the biggest threat I've seen in my lifetime.
This community is virtually the only place where the debate is being had, but I think we need to prepare to take it to the next level.

Have the Man Fridays or the very eloquent posters that I read, and some of whom I've met at various meetings, considered standing as an MP ?
It seems the next logical step. Imagine the coverage if a Mumsnetter stood in Jeremy Corbyn's constituency on this single issue of the threat to women's rights?!
Its not as if the issue is going away. The long-term repercussions are enormous. I'm sure it would get plenty of media attention and would highlight how lacking every mainstream party is in its thought for our sex based rights.
What do you think?

Id like to agree with you, but there are usually quite a lot of protest candidates in the pms constituency. They get no coverage. And they dont win. Womens issues simply dont get coverage. Why would this break that cycle?

Try sandi toksvigs party. Is it called the womens equality party or something? Although I dont know where they stand on trans issues.

WEP threw Heather BE and all other women under the trans bus a long time ago.

From my point of view? Absolutely no chance. GC is one issue and yes an MP could get a discussion. However there are a million and one other things an MP would have to decide and being as FWR is a huge broad church of women and views no person could represent us all on all the other issues. Sorry.

Yes, you'd have thought the Women's Equality Party would be all over this, but they got as big an eraser in their hands as every other party.
Mainstream parties have sold us down the river.

I agree you get protest parties, and individuals standing but there was a female doctor a few years ago that won a seat, and Mumsnet is a very influential phenomenon. It could work !

Who was the ‘anti sleaze’ independent who won in my childhood? Was it Martin Bell? Does anyone’s know what I’m talking about? I’m going to go and google.

I'd vote for @Datun

So would I toast!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bell

I’m impressed I dredged him out of my memory!

It would doable if a particular MP did something absolutely ridiculous in the name of ‘trans rights’ and the press were on board with taking them down.

I vote for Ruth Serwotka. Highly experienced trade unionist, already campaigning across a number of issues before this came along, and successful in organising a campaign for sex-specific spaces and rational debate.

Perhaps not JC's constituency but the right place, the right candidate to stand against.... I've been thinking about it all day!
I just feel so frustrated.

The right place would be a south-west swing constituency, perhaps? The people let down so chronically by the Lib Dems?

Ive been talking about doing just this for a while. Not expecting to win but bringing the conversation really into the public eye. At every hustings making JC talk about how a man can become a woman would be an interesting way to spend a few weeks.

It costs £500 as a deposit to stand, no way we’d poll enough votes to get it back but money well spent in bringing the subject to the fore.

Christopher Chope's constituency if the WEP aren't going to field a candidate there. Might raise some publicity.

He might of course be gender critical, but he is pretty awful.

SwearyG. Pleeeease do it! I will contribute to the deposit, as I'm sure will many others.

I have contributed to every other fundraiser on similar topic and would make same contribution again here. We have to try as many things as possible. Each new avenue introduces more people to the cause.

I'm sure we could get together enough money to print leaflets and get people asking candidates where they stand.
We need to think and organise like the Suffragettes.

I wonder if we could get organised quickly enough ready for the next by election that drops on us ?

Or Penny Mordaunt, apparently not GC, MP for Portsmouth North and the minister with responsibility for women. This is a link to Pink News report of the recent committee meeting and her comments
www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/20/equalities-minister-penny-mordaunt-anti-trans-bigotry/]]

If that report is correct and not taken out of context, her remarks are outrageous. I can't copy and paste to show them here I'm afraid

I would also like there to be an organised effort to complain about twitter and facebook bans to the Information Commissioner. I would happily contribute to a fund raiser for legal costs etc. Perhaps this is already being done.

I think that if it’s a by election unless it’s someone big the press won’t pay attention, and this would be about getting further publicity. Which is why I think JC is perfect because he’ll have fewer independents against him than TM and also he’s come out saying TWAW already.

There are around 30 or so constituencies (I think) with less than a 1% majority that may be worth targeting too.

As for organisation it doesn’t take much for an independent (it doesn’t even take much organisation to set up a new party), just fundraising and people willing to put in time and effort.

Procrastinator that report is right. There’s a video download link on the Penny Mordaunt thread if your blood pressure can cope.

I've heard you being interviewed Sweary, you'd be great at this.

Sweary, I'm putting this here and public. If you do decide to stand as an independent MP I will give you £100 towards the £500.

I can help with organising a campaign. I did constituency campaigns for 20 years.

Sweary's rosette should be a swimming cap.

Will also contribute significantly towards that £500 if you stand Sweary.

I would back Sweary or Datun. A few others as well.
I think it's worth doing, and I would contribute money and time.
This might be a single issue but it is a huge issue.