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?

I'll back Sweary too. Would probably need more than £500 as there is printibg and publicity too.

I bet a fundraiser would get to £10k in no time

Yes, but go for Mordaunt rather than Corbyn. Why? Look, the Right are no friends to women. They're all about who can piss the highest. Undermining the leader of the Opposition can't possibly be good for women and girls.
Also, pragmatically speaking: in many people's heads "transphobia" is bracketed with homophobia and both are considered to be right-wing behaviour. So if you target Corbyn on what will be reported as an anti-trans platform, it will reinforce that idea, and quite possibly repel lefty people who might otherwise have been in favour of feminism, it all being about equality.

It's worth looking out for a by election in central London.

I promise I will give £50 towards your fundraiser, Sweary or Datun or even £50 each, if you both run. You know I don’t name change so you can call me out on it, if I don’t.

PositivelyPERF Exactly why I posted publicly. It's to prove my commitment to Sweary.

spontaneousgiventime I hope you don’t think I was suggesting you were anything other than genuine. 😳

PositivelyPERF Oh gosh, no that wasn't what I thought/felt at all. I was just saying I had posted publicly so Sweary knew she had my support as you always post in your NN so she knows she has yours. I was agreeing with you.

Lol. Thank goodness for that. HI SWEARY, you have to do it now!

yup i would put money in the pot too.... brilliant idea!

In an ideal world, to avoid charges of party political bias, MN could field candidates across jobs ministerial jobs if the incumbents hold rubbish views on self ID etc. For example Mordaunt, Dawn Butler and Jo Swinson - although I would like to think she was an ally but I don't know what her views are - Corbyn, May and Cable etc all depending on the number of willing MN candidates. However, in practical terms you would have to go for the next by-election, if ready.

What's the aim here? Election, or maximum publicity?

For me the goal would be publicity. I doubt we would get elected (but if I did I’d bloody do the job properly).

Standing against the front benches of each party would be ideal, I think.

I think the suggestion of standing in very marginal constituencies is a good one. Then even if not elected there is every chance it will be noticeably damaging to the mainstream candidates and get more publicity

Sweary is already on this. Targeting JC and as many other high-profile TWAW MPs as possible.

have you all seen this not very popular twitter account

Id support financially.

Whilst I can't help thinking about the "Thick of It", if funds allow, perhaps professional political lobbyists should be employed, now before any candidates stand.

I would back Sweary to the hilt, and contribute financially.

Personally I'm not politically savvy enough, but thanks for the vote of confidence!

As a publicity move, it could work.

A Mumsnet MP? What, so that she can ban fruit shoots and toilet brushes and say "did you mean to be so rude?" to anyone who challenged her in the HoC?

Actually, it could be fucking hilarious .

On another thread there was a post from an MP's wife who said her husband had only received two letters about this issue. Perhaps someone, ManFriday or WPUK etc could prepare template letters setting out the issues for MPs or councillors or even schools, education authorities, girl guides which writers could taylor to make them more personal. I know many posters here are wonderful writers and don't need any help , but anything which makes it easier for people to demonstrate to those in authority that this is a matter which must be taken seriously is good. Could be as little as a postcard with a slogan at one end and full letter at the other.

I remember watching one of Blair's results being announced when he was PM and you could barely get all the candidates on the stage. The only one who got any publicity was the anti war candidate but obviously that was an issue very tied to Blair. Didn't the WEP make a big thing about standing against Philip Davies at the last election? I could be wrong but I don't remember them getting any more votes or publicity than they would have anywhere else.

You'd get more publicity at a by election than during a general election when there are thousands of candidates for all sorts of things standing. As the poster above said, there are usually about a dozen candidates in the PM's constituency so that would rather dilute the impact.

Assuming Lord Buckethead stands again, I would expect him to get the main focus in the PM's constituency (put it this way, there were several "Independent" candidates in Maidenhead and he's the only one I can remember, and I suspect others would be in the same boat)

I also wonder about running against women... Splitting the vote stuff - though perhaps MAria Miller would be a good one to target, given her wholesale selling of women down the river? She's in Basingstoke with a majority of just over 9,000