KJK is standing against Lloyd Russell-Mole in the General Election

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@IwantToRetire lol. Weak flip floppy Starmer or Authoritarian Starmer which is it ?

Because they are not going to form the Government.

And the Tories are actually starting to recognise the problems and are post Cass trying to roll back the tide.

It is not about individual personalities but about highlighting important issues.

But others have not made such a big thing about defending women's rights. This is an issue that Jess will find it difficult to ignore, whereas someone like Rachel Reeves might just sail on by, focusing on her plans for the economy.

Agree. It might get more headlines, it can be questions on the party position anyway

The proposed GP / medic Self ID etc and which spaces will be single sex and how

I’m pretty sure LRM hadn’t made a big thing about defending women’s rights. So why stand against him? Is this about JP not being pure enough?

It’s more about getting the topic in view

Some MPs will lend themselves more to that than others

Yes. He was the opposite. Infamous for being aggressively anti GC women.

KJK is after national headlines. She has no hope of winning. She just wants the platform.

I assume she has calculated that Jess Phillips is her next best chance of achieving this.

Better than Stella Creasy for example?

I was just thinking Stella Creasy too

Edited to add: although I'd still have preferred Anneliese Dodds.

Anyway not my decision and I'm not the one putting the work in.

The best thing for those who are curious is probably to ask her directly as she can't post here.

It will at least be interesting. JP came out against a group of parents objecting to the No Outsiders teaching pack. The parents were Muslim, so we’ll see where KJK positions herself.

Phillips isn't a cabinet level MP (but who knows in the future) but she is prominent in the media. She also talks a lot about womens rights, so it will be useful how she or the party envisages how trans ideology works with safeguarding and womens rights.

Its good that she now can see the difference between a man with gender and a woman, and the need for some womens services.

So a discussion between jess and posie can skip the 'what is a woman' question, to how to maintain women only services and safeguarding.

I would be interested to hear what Jess thinks about the concept of a trans child, too.

Are you in the constituency?

Are you in the constituency?

Why just ask me, and no one else on the thread?

Because you talked about hearing the discussion. Discussions between candidates take place in the constituency. If the take place at all. They’re not national.

They report on tv and in local press, too. Also, candidates and those present tend to tweet what they say and hear.

There are ways of finding out what MPs think without actually being in the room with them, nowadays.

I have no idea. That was KJK to decide. People here seem to question her every last move. I am content that she does what she does and that she is effective in broadcasting the message that women's rights count. If some of the gripers here did only a fraction of what she does, women's rights would be in a better place.

I have seen Jess speak in a debate and she left me feelings slightly sick. It was a mix of her smugness when relating her credentials in protecting women's rights and then her failure to do anything to actually protect women's rights. Perhaps KJK had the same experience.

I don't know much about Stella Creasy. She does not seem to have promoted herself as a champion of women's rights in the same way as Jess Phillips has. Rather than simply throw out names could you explain why someone else would be more effective.

Well that’s the point of getting headlines surely

So the issue is amplified

You have no idea what ‘the gripers’ do. Just as I have no idea whether the ‘fan girls’ will be standing across the U.K. to remove the need for KJK to hop around constituencies like a better dressed George Galloway.

I’d have thought SC was more widely known. She certainly sets herself up as a feminist and is from memory very TWAW. She also comes with the added advantage that journalists don’t have to leave London to cover the constituency.

Not your decision to make. Its KJKs.

You could stand against SC?

BackToLurk · Today 09:39

Angela Rayner, Nadia Whittome, Zarah Sultana, Stephen Morgan, Chris Bryant. There were loads of other options.

True enough, but none of them are likely to have a demented, screeching tantrum, unlike Rustle Loud-Mole.

Nadia might cry

Why would I stand? I’m nowhere near the constituency. I don’t belong to a political party.

You don't seem to know much about the openly feminist MPs and their positions.
Jess Phillips spends hours reading the name of every single woman murdered to raise the profile of femicide, a crime that can't be tracked through official statistics and relies on feminist activists to keep track of. She campaigns for women and girls and against domestic violence all the time. JP is not TWAW.

Stella Creasey campaigns for women's rights at work and against online misogynistic trolling. She campaigns to make misogyny a hate crime.

Both of them get death threats and online abuse just for daring to be women in politics.

We need womens voices contributing to parliamentary business; we definitely need feminist voices.

Instead there seems to be a purity politics angle at play to dismiss women who aren't feministing right. Meanwhile the men carry on unhindered.

KJKs approach here makes this look like a spat between women on a fringe women's issue. If she was serious about raising the profile, she'd tackle a big hitting male MP about it.

Some posters will complain whatever

I agree with pp go with someone who will expose Labour’s position and get headlines