I agree he is a contrarian but these are thought out detailed answers.
I guess one's views comes down to how dangerous a position one thinks women are in at the moment. I think it is really dangerous.
Look at the degree of capture of parties and institutions - so for me to have someone recognise what a woman is who wants to protect single sex spaces, ring fence money (perhaps stopping the defuding of refuges that is starting to happen) and who wants to do this:
Conduct public awareness / safety campaigns targeted at men to highlight changes they can make to help women feel safer.
Fund programmes which support men to challenge other men’s behaviour / support men to change their own behaviour
and this
Set up an independent body to investigate police officers suspected of domestic violence and violence against women and girls.
and this
Commission a Macpherson style report to address policing in relation to women.
Then yes flipping please - whether I vote for him or not he has put a direct challenge out to other politicians and parties in London and beyond, and thank god, because someone needs to! He has set a bar on women's rights and safety that others get nowhere near.
If you feel women are under threat then that's a huge, huge thing to have happened.
As to his other policies, well of course, read them and don't vote for him if they cross your red lines. I don't like everything he says but I am not going to call him names because I'd get called names for my GC views and people are more nuanced than that and we need to stop shouting.
But in a democracy isn't it just so, so good that a well known person standing for office has come out and said some of this???