Democracy has failed Labour Party women - Labour Women’s Declaration working group highlights increasing concerns about the handling of the forthcoming conference

[stumbledin]

I am not a member of the Labour Party but would like to think we had a healthy and well functioning opposition to the Tory majority.

So it is depressing to read how the Labour Party seems to be using unclear bureaucratic procedures to stop Labour Women's Declaration having a voice.

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/democracy-has-failed-labour-party-women

Fucks sake.

I don't know what to say really. I live in hope but it's just incident after incident saying fuck you to women.

That’s a depressing but all too believable read. Labour don’t seem to have grasped that left leaning feminists make up a significant part of the electorate and we won’t vote for them if they keep showing they don’t regard us as adult humans either

Reading that, what are they actually allowed to discuss because it seems to me that every topic of importance is off the table?

Shameful but unsurprising.

What even is the point of Labour at this stage?

So much in that article is a real cause for concern. I admire the courage and determination of the women trying to influence the Labour Party from within but it increasingly looks like they are wasting their energy.

How does Labour think it can win an election without the women's vote? I can only conclude they don't want to win. I wouldn't be so bothered by their self sabotaging behaviour if they were doing their job of holding the party of government to account but they're not.

@FOJN

So much in that article is a real cause for concern. I admire the courage and determination of the women trying to influence the Labour Party from within but it increasingly looks like they are wasting their energy.

How does Labour think it can win an election without the women's vote? I can only conclude they don't want to win. I wouldn't be so bothered by their self sabotaging behaviour if they were doing their job of holding the party of government to account but they're not.

Well it hasn't stopped the SNP has it. The most all out full frontal attack on women's sex based rights, and they got voted straight back in. That can't have been down to the beardy woke bros alone. So Labour may well feel that insufficient people, and indeed insufficient women, are actually that bothered by it as to affect elections.

Scotland, Canada, NZ - do what you want to women and it wont make a difference because, as we see time and time again, women aren't really even fully human.

They don't seem to give a shit about any women. What an absolute mess.

This isn't an anomaly in the system, it's is the system.

Adding insult to injury, both Labour Women’s Declaration (LWD) and Lesbian Labour have been refused the chance to hold fringe events.

They managed to find space for Labour4decrim though. mobile.twitter.com/LesbianLabour/status/1408187830506033159

If women gave a shit about women, they would vote against these parties.

Well it hasn't stopped the SNP has it.

I understand your point but I think the SNP get voted back in by people in favour of Scottish independence. They may well be concerned about the dismantling if women's rights but are prioritising Indy ref 2.

Yes I expect that most female SNP voters continue to vote for them despite their position on women’s rights, not because of them.