Can we all write to Cherie Blair

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She is on Peston right now. She has spelled out the issues very clearly.
She needs to come on Mumsnet.

What is Peston? Do you have a link?
Maybe she's already here.

Sounds interesting.

I do wonder who we speak to on here. I know some MNers have distinct high profiles irl, and the other way around. Various influential people lurk among us. How do they manage to avoid outing themselves?!

What did she say?

You could at least of told us what she bloody said!

What they said

It would help if you summarised what CB said on Peston - at least give us a ballpark of what "issues" we are talking about.

Sorry. I was still watching it.
She was talking about women in lock down working full time, no child care, home educating.
She nailed it.

She was actually give a couple of slots to put her points across. Which is unusual.

Peston is Robert Peston on ITV.
He also had Paul Nurse on who is also very good on public health in general, covid in particular.
I have given up on the BBC.

Sorry. Of course nobody knows whst I am in about.
But Robert Peston is still going, interviewing Greg Clarke now.
Cherie Blair still there and talking about this whole impact on women.
She is really good.

On about.

Of course she's really good, that's probably why the press were always so nasty to her.

Indeed.
I like her.
I met her in the ladies toilets at a conference once.
We were both in our 40s and pregnant.
She has been very forthright this evening. It has been nice to see.

I thought she was great too, always have. Any idea on how we contact her?

Sorry I don't know. Got a bit carried away. I have been in hospital all day today and was so cheered by seeing and hearing her speaking good sense.
I read mumsnet in between having needles stuck in me. . I forgot that everyone isn't reading the same threads as me.
I will try and find out how to contact her.

Had a lot of painkillers today. Sorry about the typos.

Thank you for this OP. Needles are not fun, hope you are okay

I have emailed ITV.
Thank you 2BthatUnnoticed.
I am feeling better this morning .

I have been reading so many really distressing stories on here by women expected to WFT from home, do all the child care, all the domestic/family stuff. I do watch quite a lot of news/discussion programs as I am not very mobile/shielding and this topic is hardly ever mentioned. It is all about the pubs and the football.

Then yesterday I read something about how the amount of academic research/papers produced by women has dropped significantly while the same by men has gone up.

When I listened to Cherie Blair last night I was applauding.

You could start by asking Cherie Blair about the extent to which her husband was influenced into driking the TRA kool aid by the "prominent Jungian" Professor Andrew Samuels.

Andrew Samuels is centrally involved in the organisation Psychotherapy and Counselling Union

That's this lot

www.facebook.com/PsychotherapyandCounsellingUnion/posts/1401328186734709

some links of interest

Andrew samuels and the Labour Party
RW: I know you do some political consultancy work. Do you have any dealings with the leaders in this country?

AS: Yes. I have had. Before the Election I had connections with many different elements in the Labour Party going up to very senior level. And I’ve had a long term relationship with a senior American politician as well. I have made small contributions to solutions of social and political problems in Ireland, Brazil, South Africa and Japan and I’m building up a practice in this.

<a class="break-all" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bGlsP83NenkJ:www.andrewsamuels.com/interview-with-ruth-williams/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bGlsP83NenkJ:www.andrewsamuels.com/interview-with-ruth-williams/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari

Andrew Samuels on gender
books.google.co.uk/books?id=qxGwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=%22andrew+samuels%22+%22labour+party%22&source=bl&ots=BCD8T1J2Eh&sig=ACfU3U2OErveNbpMIKLEF2IN-X29xPQzZg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFzbCS9JrqAhWiWhUIHTlEBXQQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22andrew%20samuels%22%20%22labour%20party%22&f=false

Andrew Samuels on his work with political parties around the issue of gender

books.google.co.uk/books?id=qxGwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=%22andrew+samuels%22+%22labour+party%22&source=bl&ots=BCD8T1J2Eh&sig=ACfU3U2OErveNbpMIKLEF2IN-X29xPQzZg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFzbCS9JrqAhWiWhUIHTlEBXQQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22andrew%20samuels%22%20%22labour%20party%22&f=false

www.amazon.co.uk/New-Sexual-Agendas-Lynne-Segal/dp/0333675681/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&s=books&keywords=new+sexual+agendas&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1593024452&sr=1-1

Andrew Samuels' reputation as "Tony Blair’s psychoanalyst"

<a class="break-all" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jzs8cldBoLMJ:www.irishtimes.com/news/the-seducer-and-the-seduced-1.1095419+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jzs8cldBoLMJ:www.irishtimes.com/news/the-seducer-and-the-seduced-1.1095419+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari

on Andrew Samuels and the think tank Antidoote links to various Labour politicians

books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDwrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22andrew+samuels%22+%22antidote%22+think+tank&source=bl&ots=Khxr2sX3tJ&sig=ACfU3U0Mi-tm7uP0n5mEVNANDWJtqvzZkw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqvKfcj5vqAhUCShUIHS32DHQQ6AEwA3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22andrew%20samuels%22%20%22antidote%22%20think%20tank&f=false

Andrew Samuels support fot the notorious cult leader Derek Gale
forum.culteducation.com/read.php?8,20372,page=2

I have so much more to report about this, however readers may wish to research a bit themselves, there are many surprising peple and connections worthy of reflection

There is also a lot of material that has been removed from the www and the archive. Fortunately I have screen shots.

Also, please do not think that this is just a Labour problem. All political parties have been influenced by controversial, dubious psychotherapists, of which more later

please excuse my typos, am pushed for time

This thread is about Cherie Blair. Why are you talking about her husband? Is it not possible to talk about her?

This thread is about Cherie Blair. Why are you talking about her husband? Is it not possible to talk about her?

Because, according to various mainstream media reports, her husband was influenced by a psychotherapist and academic who was centrally involved in promoting the TRA movement within the Labour party.

I though that this information might be useful to readers.

Of course you can always ignore that and just talk about Cherie Blair if you wish.

I personally found the shole Cheriegate issue fascinating and would love to hear moe from Cherie about how she ended up being influenced by new age charlatans while in a position of significant influence.

Readers do not have to pay atention to my posts of course, they can ignore them if they wish

@endofthelinefinally She has two accounts on twitter, a personal and one for her foundation. Hope you're feeling better.

Thus could be really interesting.

I can't stand Tony Blair.
I was glad to hear Cherie Blair saying what she did.
I am not on twitter, I did look on her website but the link to email her doesn't work. The press contact link does, but of course I am not press.
I had an email back from ITV thanking me for my comments and saying they would be passed on.
There has been a bit of discussion on MN recently about how it is possible to agree with people on some things and not about others. I think that is reasonable and fair. I don't think it is possible or necessary to agree with or support someone on every single issue or opinion, but it is fine to agree with what they say on a particular subject. I hope that makes sense...