Tommy Robinson and Let Women Speak

[eatfigs]

I've only read about this on Twitter so there's a chance this is being taken out of context, but it looks like Let Women Speak were part of Tommy Robinson's rally in London this past weekend:

https://x.com/shularises/status/1797585248580186511

https://x.com/GappyTales/status/1797611080212205988

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1796931835823362392

This doesn't sit right with me at all. I've been to LWS events and thought I knew what they were about. I've argued against the guilt-by-association tactics that some activists use against LWS when male intruders have turned up to the events, like the neo-Nazis in Melbourne.

But here we see the opposite, LWS deliberately attending far-right fascist marches. This seems inexcusable to me.

Giving leaflets to Tommy Robinson supporters isn't changing anyone's minds is it? The far right don't tend to be advocates of the LGBTQ+ movement.
Yes but even Fascists love their children and want them to be safeguarded.

I've just gone to the trouble of logging into TwitX so I could read the tweets. Waded through Andy Ngo's thread of Trump-tastic jingoism, then realised the point of Lily Maynard's tweet: Standing For Women leaflets on Primark's rainbow stand CLEARLY demonstrate Kellie-Jay's support of Stonewall, while also providing evidence that she uses enslaved Chinese workers to produce short-life clothing 😂

Is there no end to the woman's evil associations?!

That is not what I'm taking from Cassie's posts at all.

OK.
Or it could be that stickering in some circumstances is criminal damage, therefore a crime, but a counter protest while unpleasant isn't illegal.

Thank you

Also - the police "embracing identity politics"? Don't make me laugh.

Pardon?
Do you really think the far right need their minds changing? They definitely know what a woman is. And not in a good way.

😂
OK

^ This comment is from a TRA coming into the thread to stir things up. Twitter screenshot attached, note the background colour of the post.

To be honest I regret starting this thread. I'm sorry everyone.

Some people have their heads shoved so far up their arses on this thread they can see their tonsils!

Well that article is interesting about the nature of his rally. Here's the info about the counter protest:

The fact that the counter protest, called by Stand Up To Racism and supported by many other groups and trade unions, some of which spoke in Whitehall, was unable to mobilise really significant numbers should be of concern.

It seems unlikely thats why LWS were at the rally given their feelings on unions, but I'll look forward to Lippy and Aja posting their support of this movement and evidence that's what they were doing there. As opposed to "speculation" with no evidence whatsoever.

It's OK. We all make mistakes.

Ah well. I was wondering why you'd stopped contributing to your own thread.
Takes guts to come back and say that.

We promise not to hound you around the internet for your fig affinity even though TR also eats figs which makes you fig adjacent.
<taps nose>

Don’t worry. Thanks for saying that

Its not your fault in the slightest 💐

The only person they have really used in their pathetic wind up is Maddox and that takes zero effort.

Well it is your fault…but you know what i mean

you didnt expect it to go like this

I once found a round, black wizened something that I thought must be a dried up fig under DD's bed, which confused me because I didn't remember buying figs since I've lived in this house let alone DD eating them. I eventually worked out that it was a mummified Christmas stocking satsuma.

You have been speculating all over through this thread!

A tenner on Cassie not having been told directly by A and L what their views are on trades unions.
More speculation.

Cassie said "Legal" doesn't mean acceptable though. Far right marches are not acceptable.

I disagree. No matter how distasteful some views are - and the views of TR and his thugs are abhorrent to me - they must be allowed to state them. Not allowing this is the thin edge of the wedge towards compelled speech/thought and sticking one's head in the sand because the other side's views are so dire they give one the vapours.

Nope.

TR is a miserable excuse of a man, but if he can't state the shite he believes in then my equal right to say you're talking out of your arse, mate, because A, B, and C may not be allowed. I'm not interested in that happening.

Nice to see JKR supporting Aja

x.com/jk_rowling/status/1798818643629006908?s=46&t=PSGltfjrMyZmBtYq2-AVIQ

He can state them but preferably to thin air rather than rallies full of people including feminists

This is a direct lie.