Janice Turner on Starmer, Labour and Gender

[Igneococcus]

and also the SNP and WEP, but mostly Labour:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fd1ec980-17e9-11ec-8982-e4706e2eecb0?shareToken=4fa639c83d8fefe8c1b934f0651acb72

Thank you, I’ll have a read, Janice is always excellent. Appreciate the share token

Absolutely barnstorming. Starmer needs to stop hiding in the fridge.

Excellent article.

Thanks for the share. Cutting right to the heart of the issue as ever, thank you Janice. I couldn't vote for a single one of them now.

Excellent article, thanks for sharing. I absolutely agree with everything in this article. I am a woman. This is the top issue for me. If you don’t respect my sex, don’t expect my X.

She's packed everything in there, didn't she?

“Keir is terrified of conflict,” says one MP. Then why the fuck is he the leader of a political party? It's hardly a job for a shrinking violet.

Brilliant article, as ever, from Janice. Shows the current state of play in very sharp relief.

She’s really good at writing isn’t she - that was like a long blast of fresh air - thank god, that’s really cheered me up. Thanks Janice x

Stonking column. Janice is very rarely wrong on this subject.

Glad to see her hammering home how mainstream the concerns about gender ideology actually are.

@Nachthex

“Keir is terrified of conflict,” says one MP. Then why the fuck is he the leader of a political party? It's hardly a job for a shrinking violet.

Brilliant article, as ever, from Janice. Shows the current state of play in very sharp relief.

Yep. I used to sympathise with him greatly, possibly thinking Labour needed a 'centrist' kind of figure to get over the post-Corbyn hump. But missing wide open goals seems to be a bit of a requirement or the post. My Labour MP is competent and long serving, but I can't stand for this anymore.

woah

she's fucking furious isn't she. outstanding

It will be interesting, as Janice says in the article, if Sharar Ali becomes leader of the Greens. I think voting is still open, so long as you are a member of GP already, so if you have a vote use it! The timing of this, along with Ed Davey's comments of this morning, could be very beneficial to the Greens.

Excellent article
Will the political parties ever listen? It's all down to their big donors imo

A brilliant succinct summary of the state of the parties. Thank you for sharing & to Janice for the absolute clarity.

If Ali wins leadership I’ll join the Greens. I left the LDs over exactly this issue about 6 months ago. At the moment I have no idea which way I’d vote in an election because I think the current govt is ludicrous but there’s no way I could vote for Ed ‘No Female Spaces’ Davey or Keir ‘GRA Reform Pledge’ Starmer and their GI captured parties.

Storming column. Thank you Janice.

What the hell are they all terrified of??

Just say no. Seriously. Its not complicated.

Very good piece. Really articulates how so many of us feel. I have only ever voted Labour in GEs and a couple of times for Libs - never, never again. I am furious at the total disregard this bunch of mainly privileged men have for women and women's rights.

Ed Davey came across on R4 as a blithering idiot. I'm extremely disappointed in Keir Starmer - what a let down that man has been as leader.

I joined the Greens in order to vote for Shahrah Ali, we'll see what happens there.

Ed Davey telling women that no matter where they are, what they're doing, how naked they are, how vulnerable, or whether they have just been severely beaten or raped by a male, they can never escape the presence of a man?

It's bloody awful.

Exactly datun. Just say no

We do it with our toddlers.

Why don’t they respect women.

Without us the world would collapse

Such a fantastically well written piece. I'm so angry at Starmer and the Labour Party. They are basically handing us over to another decade of the Tories. We need them to wake up and see what this is costing us as a nation.

If Ali wins, I will quit Labour and join the Greens.

I didn't do it to vote for him because I thought that the chances of him winning were very small and Tamsin et al's were quite high, and I'm certainly not prepared to be in a party led by the latter. So I'd just have to quit again straightaway, which felt morally dubious.

Great piece