Thats an interesting interview. Its pretty muddled. I'm not sure who is muddled.
“These will be people who have given up on political parties, who’d never see themselves as politicians, who are driven by the realisation nobody is coming to their rescue – that’s when you’re liberated to do it yourself, to build networks, to start activating … Politics is not going to happen in Westminster for the foreseeable future, politics is going to happen in those communities. Women will bring their solutions and experiences to bear.”
''So Walker is not stepping down – not really. Instead, she’s sitting down, for a minute at least, and inviting others to join her at the table.''
''huge problems in that massive swaths of people have never been seen or heard. There’s concern about white working-class men’s jobs, but we’re still not talking about the women silently supporting them with unpaid social infrastructure.''
There is no table where women are welcome to sit and talk.
Women have been beavering away in the background for decades, and the fruits of our collective labours have been taken away from us.
The spaces and services we built and paid for because women needed them are now mixed sex, the movements for women's rights are not for everything and everyone.
Women are still hard at work against massive odds. Suggesting we all have to go to join Sophie at her table is a bit insulting, actually.