Don't forget Rosie has been prominent in the fight to end anti-Semitism in Labour and also was critical of Corbyn. She is also an ultra Remainer. Corbynites detest her.
A big chunk of the reason JKR was villainised so quickly because the Corbyn faction already hated her because JKR thought he was useless and spoke up about it. Same pattern here.
Basically there is a Corbynite faction in the Canterbury Labour party and beyond that want to see her gone. There is a mechanism to deselect MPs which they could use. However I suspect they can't get enough votes to use it because a lot of the local party actually like Rosie because many think she is doing a decent job. So they are trying to undermine her covertly. It is part of a propaganda campaign. What they are doing is attacking her from multiple directions.
So they accuse her of being a bad local MP.
Of being Transphobic.
Of being Zionist and pro-Israel
Of being a Blairite.
{They would like to accuse her of being too pro-EU if that was an effective weapon.]
This is what Rosie is alluding too.
We totally need to write in to support Rosie. However she facing a campaign which targets her on multiple fronts. To support her effectively make it clear she is being targeted as much as being against Corbyn as for supporting women's rights.
The campaign is being co-ordinated by a local leftist Kent website Whitstable Views which has run a long series of anti Rosie articles. There are articles on the website which undermine the battle against antisemtism in Labour. It is a lexit site so obviously Rosie's support for the EU is another issue. Even though the effect of Brexit is devastating for Kent.
Obviously all this is a bigger political question which different people here are going to have different perspectives. However one thing we can agree on no matter where you are politically is the sexism issue here. Whether you disagree with Rosie politically or not we can see a bunch of sexist stuff going on. Yes she had an affair during lockdown it was wrong, but the way people harp on about is classic double standards. She was punished for it and is on the back bench.
There are tonnes of Labour MPs that were critical of Corbyn many of them men. Strangely it was the women critics who are targeted most strongly. I think we know why.
Why is Tonia not being targeted in the same obsessive way as Rosie ? They think the same on gender matters, they both have spoken out and appeared on GC platforms, Tonia even was a Corbyn and Brexit critic. It is because the campaign against Rosie has become a classic misogynistic witchhunt because she ticks boxes. Rosie had the wrong kind of sex, Rosie complained about being abused by a man, Rosie questioned male authority figures. Combined with that is the usual sexist appearance stuff I suspect. Rosie has a more feminine style, so that marks her out in a sexist mind as being "weak" and a "target", she has had to struggle to get her voice heard, but now she has found it she just won't be silent. The fact is our society particularly targets outspoken women with a feminine style because it breaks down the gender rules.
Tonia, a Welsh Rugby playing Labour woman obviously faces different sexist assumptions, but she seems tougher on the surface so these pathetic bullies don't even bother her in the same way.
The fact is Labour has women issues the left faction is and the right faction too. [The right in Labour are viciously critical of female left MPs and members.]
There are good reasons that Labour has never elected a women leader. The British left has deep issues with women, they just flow in different patterns than the right. Women on side are celebrated, step out of line and you must be destroyed. {It is part of a wider tendency on the left to find it difficult to tolerate diversity of thought.] The right is more classically sexist, but they are way more tolerant of women once they achieve a certain status and prove themselves. They will say condescending nonsense, but allow women politicians more freedom to express themselves if they share basic ideals. Look at Liz Truss ardent Remainer who is now the darling of the Tory Brexit base.
Women members in Labour should be able to have any views they want within the usual standards of the party without being harassed for them. Labour should be offering Rosie more support. So yes lets write in and support Rosie. This is way bigger than the battle about trans issues though so make sure you reflect that.
It also makes the argument to support her more effective. The fact is we need Rosie to stay in Labour she is a vital voice in there and provides support for 1000s of Labour members with GC views. I get many here have lost all faith in Labour, but we need critics within and without the party. The fact is to win this fight we need to reform every major British institution infected by genderism. That includes Labour.
This in fact what I think Rosie is doing, obviously she suffers from the attacks, but she understands how to use their unhinged nature to come out on top and gain publicity. She is playing politics, to gain a stronger position just as she did in the Labour conference, and we need that. She is turning the attacks against her into a way of strengthening herself and everything she stands for.
Thus I think we can use the campaign to support Rosie to strengthen GC forces within Labour and all importantly destigmitize the debate further UK wide. The Labour party is full of dinosaurs, lets keep it that way. Better still lets aim to put the Dinosaurs in charge.