Welsh Govt leadership campaign contenders - WE ARE DOOMED

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WelshSerafina · 06/01/2024 21:47

Fresh from the binfire of our awful Welsh Govt and First Minister Drakeford trying to sneak in self ID via a ‘Gender Quotas Bill’ that was leaked by Wales WRN and then squashed by the Presiding Officer because they didn’t have the powers ALL ALONG - we now have a leadership contest.
Two contenders - both terrible. One of them, Jeremy Miles, who is the Education Minister and a frequent visitor to Pink News has apparently now doubled down on his previous TWAW gibberish. If he wins, expect more attempts to introduce self ID. We really are in upside down world here.
https://x.com/women_outspoken/status/1743656205082415203?s=46&t=v-c-_XT3Lv6Ow-vgwIBPeA

https://x.com/women_outspoken/status/1743656205082415203?s=46&t=v-c-_XT3Lv6Ow-vgwIBPeA

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Dineasair · 26/04/2024 20:53

ArabellaScott · 07/01/2024 19:09

Solidarity from your Scottish sisters.

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Dineasair · 26/04/2024 21:24

fromorbit · 10/01/2024 09:21

Text for those without twitter

Outspoken Women @women_outspoken
Just home from an event where Jeremy Myles, would-be Welsh Labour leader, said loudly and proudly that as far as he is concerned, 'woman' includes people born female and transwomen. Every time he was asked a question about women and equality he talked about trans rights.

Things look bad, awful. That just means we fight back harder. Scottish women show the way. On the face of it 3 or 4 years ago you would have thought there is NO way a bunch of uppity woman could take down the SNP. Yet it happened.

The situation in Wales is messed up because we have less media accountability. Because Welsh Labour are even more ruthless than the SNP and the Tories are.

Yet things are better than it seems. We now have a bunch of great groups Women Rights Network Wales, Merched Cymru, LGB Cymru, Labour Women's Declaration Cymru, and more all are well established and building. They just need numbers.

Ordinary Welsh people are on OUR side. Every time WRN Wales have done an public event they get an overwhelmingly positive reaction. So what we need to do is break through to the public.

Great blog post about this happening here:
https://www.womensrights.network/post/welsh-men-speak-up

The leadership contest is best seen as an opportunity to get break through and raise awareness, for direct action and asking questions which they can't evade.

It will last to March so we have a real chance to shake things up. We try to get Miles and Gething to divide from each other on gender - if Miles is a fanatic then we split him from Gething.

We contrast them to Starmer's British Labour gender line and get their position on record so they have to defend it in the General election.

Now is the time to up our game especially after Rachel Meade's win.

There is an online Welsh leadership event for Co-op party members tommorrow anyone eligible to get on:

https://party.coop/event/co-op-live-wales-2024-husting

We need to brainstorm the best questions to cause maximum discomfort and chaos.

I think questions over the recent attacks on Tonia over her exposure of the Welsh RU seism scandal, the division with Dawn Bowden and belief in women's sport are great to focus on .
https://nation.cymru/news/sports-minister-dawn-bowden-likes-x-posts-attacking-mp-tonia-antoniazzi/

Good luck from Scotland. I have never been an activist and was never involved in a protest before the Let Women Speak one in George Square in Glasgow with KJK, Glinner and Meno in attendance. So many brave women stepped up to the microphone and spoke up, and wee Jean fae Aberdeen led us in a rendition of “oh ye cannae shove women aff the bus” It was magical, and so empowering.

It needs boots on the ground and women need to show how angry we are. The righteous female rage that day directed at Sturgeon and Harvie was palpable, the police were good I have to admit as they kept the unhinged rainbow crazies away from us, it was still scary but a joy to be part of. The last one was horrible, they are getting desperate and the Kettling was awful, I couldn’t go as I was unwell but my friends did and they were terrified, but every time they do this they peak more people as they show just how kind they are. I will be at the next one, we will never wheesht until this is history.

The Cass report is just the start, Scotland tried to do what Wales are doing but it didn’t work for them and Labour in Wales will end up crashing into the bumpers in the same way in the end. It’s just a shame so much damage will be done in the process.

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