Labour MP for Leeds says he OPPOSES single-sex spaces

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This was the question:

Do you agree that there should be sex-segregated facilities for women in hospitals, schools, refuges and prisons?

Alex Sobel, Labour MP for Leed NW said: No.

twitter.com/alexsobel/status/1356382772152184832?s=19

Yes Jess Phillips is such a disappointment on this. I think she is great and want her to do well but she will not stand up for women's rights even though she must be gc. I guess she would be hounded out of the party.

When I saw the title of this thread, I guessed it would be him. Until fairly recently he was my MP (I've moved away), and he has been consistently awful in his attitudes to women, older people, and rural people.

His constituency covers a wedge of Leeds city centre, but also a semi-rural area (which he completely fails to understand, and patronises). He encourages the ill-thought-out prejudices of the large number of students in his constituency. I assume this is just another example of him trying to please the woke, while deliberately fucking over his female constituents.

He's deleted the 'no' tweet. The bigot one is still there. What a piece of work.

Why has he deleted it? Screenshots exist :/

That no had over 500 replies.

Such a weak thing to do. If he didn't read the question properly- prisons etc. Then say sorry and of course I don't believe that.

If he does believe it, tell people why.

He's a grown up politician FFS. Behave like one. Stand by your words or apologise.

It's not going to go away is it. A huge amount of people have read what he wrote.

Women in Switzerland only got the right to vote 50 years ago. Just saying.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-55950920

He deleted? I wonder if a small part of his brain is working through the actual implications of his carelessly tossed out view? One can hope.

@Mollyollydolly

He's deleted the 'no' tweet. The bigot one is still there. What a piece of work.

Well gosh. I thought he couldn't go down any lower in my estimation, but he just did!

I suppose it's too much to hope for that Starmer told him to delete it??

Ah sorry, just seen that he's left the 'bigot' one up. Ok.
Even I'm running out of excuses for Starmer now.

Deleting the tweet that people found offensive, but maintaining that any offended people are bigots is worse than just leaving the tweet.

Incredible behaviour. This is someone determined to show how they don't give one shit about Women's concerns. And his party leader seems to feel the same - I helped campaign to get our Labour MP elected in 2017 and this is all they think of me??

@merrymouse

Deleting the tweet that people found offensive, but maintaining that any offended people are bigots is worse than just leaving the tweet.

It actually reads worse without the deleted tweet.

He deleted the “no” tweet, left the one calling women bigots and hasn’t apologised.

Deleting is a shitweasel’s trick. If he regrets what he said, explain how he made a mistake and what he actually thinks. Deletion just confirms he stands by what he said and simply wants to limit the fallout.

@merrymouse

Deleting the tweet that people found offensive, but maintaining that any offended people are bigots is worse than just leaving the tweet.

Yep

[quote Xanthangum]Women in Switzerland only got the right to vote 50 years ago. Just saying.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-55950920[/quote]
This is interesting though. The reason - in large part - is that the Swiss population vote on everything, and at three levels - commune, canton and federal (like towns, counties and national, I suppose). Women got federal voting rights in 1971 when men as a whole across the country voted to grant them to women. Obviously, the question is - does the male population want to let women vote? It's in stark relief in Switzerland, but one wonders what the results would have been in other countries, should they have had the same political system.

As a byline, some cantons gave a cantonal vote in the late 1950s, and one famously held out until 1991 when the federal tribunal forced them to give women the vote on the basis that they were contravening federal law set in 1971.

Whit a fuckin arse.

When are these political parties going to pull their heads out and realise they are alienating so many people.

My (Conservative) MP assured me that he supported Liz Truss and the protection of single-sex spaces.