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SueBridehead444 · 2024-04-02T06:01:59+00:00

I have an opportunity to meet Ed Davey, leader of the Lib Dems and believer of genderism, today. What do I ask him to put him on the spot, that will be polite but to the point? I'm worried that I will just waffle and not make my point clearly if I don't plan it in advance, so any help would be much appreciated! TIA

faffadoodledo · 02/04/2024 17:25

@SueBridehead444 thanks for the update. I am going to look out for him coming to our constituency. It's a target one. Tho I rather think our candidate wants to keep him away, knowing he could be a liability!

Cattenberg · 02/04/2024 17:34

SueBridehead444 · 02/04/2024 16:38

I did get to meet and have a one-to-one chat with Ed and the lib Dem candidate for our constituency, Sarah Gibson.

I decided to go with @Fenlandia's suggestion (thank you!) and asked him if he still believes that biological men should be allowed into all women's spaces.
He didn't quite deny saying it, but 'might have been misquoted or taken out of context' apparently!
He was quite confrontational and in my face, especially about the Equality Act. He is unapologetically pro-self ID and not interested in women's rights at all.

Sarah was nicer but still all about the 'most vulnerable' but did ask me to contact her so we could discuss it further, which I think I will do.

I did chat with lots of other people, quite a few of whom got my point, although one woman did talk about Brianna Ghey. I just said that it was very sad and awful, but what about the 3 women murdered every week? She didn't have an answer to that.

So no big surprises, and I won't be voting for them. Ed was quite unpleasant to me, but he was expecting to be rallying the troops and not being asked awkward questions!

Oh FFS! I live in a target seat for the Lib Dems (which they’re expected to take from our awful Tory MP), but I don’t see how I can vote for them. I won’t vote Tory, but I can’t vote for a party which shows actual contempt for women’s rights.

tobee · 02/04/2024 17:39

How ridiculous that you were told to be gentle when he was anything but.

RhymesWithOrange · 02/04/2024 18:02

Impossible to vote for LDs then.

Lanore · 02/04/2024 18:06

“How can you ask women to vote Liberal Democrat, when you and your colleagues have been clear to the electorate that you will not listen to women’s concerns regarding women’s safety and dignity, and you have refused to stand up for women’s rights, and instead you have prioritised the egotistical demands of a tiny minority of men? The Liberal Democrat’s current position on this issue is fanatical. When will this change?”

Fenlandia · 02/04/2024 18:33

SueBridehead444 · 02/04/2024 16:38

I did get to meet and have a one-to-one chat with Ed and the lib Dem candidate for our constituency, Sarah Gibson.

I decided to go with @Fenlandia's suggestion (thank you!) and asked him if he still believes that biological men should be allowed into all women's spaces.
He didn't quite deny saying it, but 'might have been misquoted or taken out of context' apparently!
He was quite confrontational and in my face, especially about the Equality Act. He is unapologetically pro-self ID and not interested in women's rights at all.

Sarah was nicer but still all about the 'most vulnerable' but did ask me to contact her so we could discuss it further, which I think I will do.

I did chat with lots of other people, quite a few of whom got my point, although one woman did talk about Brianna Ghey. I just said that it was very sad and awful, but what about the 3 women murdered every week? She didn't have an answer to that.

So no big surprises, and I won't be voting for them. Ed was quite unpleasant to me, but he was expecting to be rallying the troops and not being asked awkward questions!

Well done OP, you're braver than me and at least you now know how useless he is in person as opposed to in the media.

'Misquoted' my arse!

lonelywater · 02/04/2024 18:35

MonsterSister · 02/04/2024 17:17

Oh, Oxford is really entrenched in this sort of ideology. My DC finds it very frustrating that it puts up such a huge No Thinking Allowed sign over otherwise interesting tutorials and discussions.

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But it thought the koolaid bollocks was only in about the last ten years or so? When Davey was there I presume it was still on planet earth?