I hope you never have children- Labour and self id

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Labour have just knocked on my door campaigning. After listening to their much rehearsed answers on Brexit (I am very pro remain) I asked them about their policy on self ID. She didn't know what self ID was. Then, when I explained it further, she said "I hope you never have children" and walked off. I am extremely upset. I am about as far from a judgy rightwinger as its possible to get. I just happen to have concerns about women's rights as well as trans rights. Why cant I ask a campaigner about this without being insulted? I am just terribly upset that she appears to be judging me like this. For what it's worth, I have a brilliant woman labour MP, who I voted for last time. This time? Not after this.

Complain to the local CLP.

Complain to your mp!

That is terrible that they knock on your door wanting something from you and then they're abusive! Yes write to the MP about why you won't be voting for them this time.

That’s appalling. If she didn’t agree, she could have said so in a polite manner.

I agree you should contact the candidate (unless she WAS the candidate) and complain. If she was representing me I’d be very angry.

Good thing I'm not voting Labour! Or Tory for that matter.

I think I might vote for the local independent candidate.

Its becoming so normal for people to talk to someone whose politics they don't agree with in this awful, abusive way, and to say such extreme things on the mildest of provocation.

Absolutely inexcusable to someone representing a public facing organisation, I really hope you feel able to report it. This isn't ok, parties shouldn't be accepting of this kind of behaviour.

well just remember, they came round to your house asking for a favour. It is their loss.

How to lose votes, eh?

Modern leftism is making labour completely unelectable.

Wow. How old was the woman who came canvassing?

I wonder whether Labour have lost a lot of their most experienced canvassers, because they seem to have replaced them with a load of people who have no idea what the role entails.

Appalling.

Nobody should be making personal attacks like this on anyone.

Michelle's quite right, this is somehow becoming acceptable, especially on the left (I am on the left, and so are virtually all my family and friends. I've grown increasingly uncomfortable with the level of vitriol and approbation that is becoming normalised.)

Also they are being ridiculous, it is because I have dc that I am concerned.
I would like my dd to have a level playing field in sports and safe spaces to manage her periods.
I would like both of my dc to understand that everyone should be treated with respect but it is not biologically possible to change sex.

Makes an interesting companion thread to the one started by the Momentum politico.

This. This is why you've pissed off your core voter base so badly that lifelong Labour voters, even former party members, won't vote for you any more.

"Raving Antisemite? No problem sir, come right in. Worried about women's rights? Piss off you evil harridan."

Well done all of you. You're in the process of gifting the election to the worst Tory PM in living memory. Really, really well done. Slow fucking handclap for the beardy dude bros and handmaidens over on the left.

So much for their manifesto promise on this, then, eh? Such a surprise that it’s just empty and deceptive words . .

Shameful. I'd have given her an earful if that had been me.

Slow fucking handclap for the beardy dude bros and handmaidens over on the left.

This

I live in forlorn hope that eventually all the sane and emotionally competent people who have walked away from the nutjobs form a new Left socialist party with a grip on reality and an ability for grown up politics. Voters will flock to them.

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Please complain to your MP. No canvassers should get away with being abusive.

Definitely complain. Your MP needs to know that this is how her canvassers are behaving!

Don’t vote for her. It’s that simple.

What an appalling thing for the canvasser to say to you in your own doorway - please complain.

I am going to be keeping my broomstick near the doorway, just in case

Labour's ability to lose votes that should have been in the bag will never cease to amaze me.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory does seem to be a thing.

Pretty shite canvassing skills there.