Wow! . . . or POW! . . . that guy at Labour Heartlands really gets it!
I think I'll chuck a tip in his donation bowl for that!
It is incredible what those women have achieved in just four weeks.
Although WEP has not won any seats in previous council elections, I was surprised how well they have done in the past in some areas, ie. still well down the ranking but getting more votes than some other well-established "fringe" parties. However, that they actually won a seat this time around genuinely surprised me.
That after nine years plus donations from the Google guy who wanted the ultimate in validation for his trans-identifying son: a political party allegedly "for women" that would include him "as a woman". They should be called "Women Including Penises Party".
The sniping from the sidelines by The Usual Suspects is pathetic. They are really showing themselves up. I was beginning to feel embarrassed for them but they are really no better than TRAs. Beneath contempt.
It's also incredible what KJK has achieved. Where she gets the energy from, God only knows.
Hats off to Mandy Clare too! WEP might have finally bagged a Council seat but POW was there first, within days of being registered.
I was watching some political programme where there were the usual, justifiable, criticisms of Labour, ie. that it has become detached from its roots, full of MPs who are career politicians, segueing straight from University into political roles.
It cannot be emphasised enough that POW is a genuinely grassroots movement, growing out of Let Women Speak events where "ordinary women" (rather than party political careerists) talk about issues affecting them, their children, their elderly parents and their families.
At one Reformers Tree meeting an older feminist talked about how she had been at Greenham and been part of women's consciousness-raising groups in the 1970s and that she had never seen anything similar until she went to LWS.
That says everything about how feminism drifted away from its roots, same as the Labour Party.
I have no problem with KJK rejecting the label "feminist" when she got sick of all the, "She's not a proper feminist because . . . " nonsense.
It's not like "feminist" is synonymous with "honest, decent person" or "has women's interests at heart" or "campaigns effectively for women's rights", as has been proved time and again. Some self-declared feminists are all those things but it is not a given.
Much better IMHO to consider what someone does rather than how they self-identify ideologically: Deeds Not Words.
POW is going to go from strength to strength because women are allowed to belong and to campaign for women's rights and protection of children without having to prove their credentials as "real feminists" according to rules set and enforced by mean-spirited bully-girls.
POW is everything they fear and hate because they can't control it or the women involved. Their eyes are so very far off the prize, mesmerised, distracted by ideological nit-picking while the wonderful women of POW got out there and got those votes in - in JUST FOUR WEEKS 👏 👏 👏