Kemi Badenoch

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Kemi Badenoch has responded in a very robust way to the Tavistock news:

"...the battles fought to get the review going, the smearing of women who had serious concerns as terfs and bigots, how this links to wider problems such the credulity of some MPs who allow policy-making to be subverted by groups eg Stonewall in exchange for retweets"

twitter.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1552640803603988480

I really hope she gets a senior position in the next cabinet, one where she came help clear up some this woke mess - Education or the Home Office for example.

She has no time for any of the identity politics thinking. I've wondered actually if it's not because she had issues with it in other areas that recognized what was going on.

Was really pleased to see her tweeting about it. She totally gets it!

She is amazing. But it raises the question, if the Equalities Minister can’t make a point about equalities, who can? Who or what was preventing her making progress?

I've just wrote her a thank you postcard with a Birdy sticker puberty is not a medical condition and a woman definition sticker!

I think it was because it was under discussion, as it were. In a position like that you have to draw a line between your personal views and what the institutional view will be.

The fact that she gets that is a good thing, plenty of political figures don't.

@MangyInseam

That’s reasonable. But who were the people disagreeing?

We actually know; it was Mike Freer.

I’d like to see her getting the education brief I think. She’d be v good

'Stakeholders', in one word.

Every government policy gets explored with a 'trusted' stakeholder group prior to it being shared with the public. There are processes to establish these stakeholders, but they are open to interpretation. These stakeholders have real influence within a government, and lobby hard for their interests.

We all know which organisations were considered 'trusted', some for excellent historical reasons.They got used to having their own way, and lobbied hard when Ministers tried to explore further (due to all the vipers writing to them).

As a Minister Kemi couldn't share details of the lobbying effort, as you can't appear prejudiced when formulating a policy, but she has strong opinions about some of those lobbying for the then status quo (except introducing self id and removing single-sex space exemptions for women, they wanted that enshrined in law ).

At least, that's how I'd interpret those tweets. Love Kemi

Yes, she’s clever and forceful. I like her a lot.

That's interesting LK. So the 'trusted' stakeholder is stonewall, which is why she specifically mentions them?

And does that mean they're probs no longer the trusted group?

Really? Didn't she say she wanted to get rid of superfluous staff eg TAs. She clearly has no clue and this would be devastating for schools, particularly children with SEN and other vulnerable kids who rely on 'superfluous' staff.

No! it would be a poison chalice.

She’s fantastic. I was gutted she was knocked out of the leadership race.

Didn't she say she wanted to get rid of superfluous staff?

If this means there's less time for teaching gender woo then surely this is a good thing?

@Datun Sorry, just saw your comment - I don't think Stonewall will lose 'trusted stakeholder' role that quickly, and many, many organisations are still on the bandwagon.

There will need to be more sunlight before they are really thought of as another Kids Company.

I wonder what Oxford Uni Stonewall training and comms shall reveal, that should be coming soon? Within 35 calendar days from 30/6, apparently. ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2022/4020822/ic-129040-y4t2.pdf

I think that's the way at the moment-get their training and comms, at unis, schools and public institutions, into the sunlight, and see what the public thinks. As more of these FOIs come out Stonewall will do our work for us.

And now they can't hide behind 'commercial confidentiality' with the above ruling from information commissioner (which is a pleasure to read btw)

She can stay the fuck out of education as far as I'm concerned. Education is devolved in Scotland thankfully but her ideas on support staff are ridiculous and dangerous.

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I am GC she is awful. Doesn't give a shit about SEND provisions

I think that's the way at the moment-get their training and comms, at unis, schools and public institutions, into the sunlight, and see what the public thinks. As more of these FOIs come out Stonewall will do our work for us.

Yes, that's one of the strongest characteristics of this ideology. The more you learn about it, the worse it looks.