JKR in The Times. Labour have dismissed women like me

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https://www.thetimes.com/article/860b9b92-9b0d-4321-ba97-6a18b367bdf4?shareToken=fc3cf82fe46fc9169528ed540751fc27

JKR just asked the question: why are Labour doing this. Why have Labour, deliberately in some cases, forced women out of the party for raising concerns over women's rights? Why have so many Labour MPs gone on record saying things that undermine women's rights?

We would like an answer. Before the election. Because we want to know who we are electing and what motivates them and why.

It's a relevant question

And how would Labour have dealt with Covid? Pretty much the same I’m guessing. Covid arrived, and no-one knew what we were dealing with. It was like the blind leading the blind. Learning as we went. Impossible to get it right. And Labour aren’t going to ‘fix’ Brexit. Starmer has already said there won’t be another referendum on this.

Such a good post! It is this, exactly. Thank you @RedToothBrush for your ever well articulated points

It's always something

'Wheesht for Indy!!'

'Wheesht for Labour and we'll maybe address women's rights when we get in!! If we get the backbone and integrity to stand up against activists, of which we have yet shown 0 because we won't even support women in our own political party who are receiving rape and death threats'.

Oh yes, so very inspiring.

We all just thought JKR was a sensible woman with a good turn of phrase, but it turns out she controls the UK government. Mazing.

I think perhaps women have had enough of fucking wheeshting.

This article has given me the push to get on with writing to my prospective Labour MP (quite likely to win in my area) and ask him for his views specifically on some of these points. I also used a useful summary from the Sex Matters charity who have reviewed the 3 main parties' manifestos.

If Labour want my vote, they need to be able to articulate their approach better about biological sex versus "gender identity".

Why is JKR responsible for the defeats and errors of the Labour Party?

Why aren't the Labour Party responsible for them? Why don't they take ownership of them?

The single biggest issue in UK politics isn't the cost of living. It's the lack of trust and accountability in politics.

That's why we are seeing huge swings in voting.

I think the polls are narrowing, with still loads of 'don't knows'. I still think they'll win, but maybe not as emphatically as first believed.

@Scruffily I'd just like to add that I don't disagree with a single thing you wrote, if anything you probably understated it. I actually liked Corbyn, he only burnt his bridges with me when he refused to call Hamas terrorists after Oct 7th. But we are, where we are and when life gives you lemons....

And how would Labour have dealt with Covid?

Health is devolved in Wales and the Labour Welsh government imposed more restrictions than were in force in England.

I shall buy the Times for the first time ever today.

It is expected to be a super tight race between LD and Con in my constituency, so if I vote LD, it is a vote for a Labour gvt. My LD candidate is a good chap but won't engage on women's rights. I have a PoW candidate but I know NOTHING about her, can't find anything online, no local presence. There is a local GC Indy, but she is bananas (I happen to know her). I have a postal vote. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. For the first time ever.

JKR reminds me what I am explicitly voting for if I hold my nose and vote LD.

The entire article is quite a dossier of stupidities, it goes on and on.
Sir Keir won't read it, he will be given a half page summary prepared by an assistants assistant. It will be accompanied by a throwaway line such as " more ranting from the Harry Potter woman in Scotland but it is in the Times, so it might come up."

This.
Labour could have fixed it. It wasn't difficult as Red points out. Done a year or more ago and this would be old news.
Instead Starmer's been publicly forced into recognising basic facts and biology via Blair being wheeled out to tell him what the rest of us all know. Interviewers know this is a question that makes him look insincere as he derails the most straightforward of questions. Can't speak about the abuse of Rose D despite his claims to be championing tackling VAWG and shamefully has twice used the appalling murder of Brianna Ghey to avoid answering the question.

It's a self inflicted wound. Labour refused to listen to women, including all the loyal labour women members who they bullied, branded as transphobic and kicked many of them out of the party. And this is the consequence of their choices.

I disagree. It's very readable, as you'd expect from the woman who wrote the books that got an entire generation of children into reading.

Ed to ad that I misread the quoted post, and I am just hopeful that Starmer will read it in full

Of course he won’t, he can’t even talk about it

And when it’s all around him he’s so cloth eared and block headed he goes for ignoring it

@JuneAgain I'm still voting Labour or for similar reasons, LD (probably, depending on the response) It's not like the women who won't wheesht will suddenly wheesht when Labour get in.

Add to that the "Trumpian" insult. Because if we can't accept some of the policies of the left we absolutely must be far right sheeple.

Why is it that there is always something more important than the rights of 50% of the population?

And why is freedom of speech something they are not allowed unless they are agreeing with Men ?

My apologies @Summerwalksnow I misread your post

The book 'The Women Whom Wouldn't Wheesht' details exactly how difficult it to to extricate gender ideology when it is imbedded into civic life, how Scottish women have had to fight tooth and nail to get to where we are, and how there's still a long way to go.

I wouldn't be putting my trust in Labour suddenly deciding to listen to women if they get in.

Why is it that there is always something more important than the rights of 50% of the population?

And why is one person out of that 50% suddenly responsible for the rest not voting in enough numbers to allow JC to win an election ?

Given his (lack of) understanding on the subject, I'd think he'll have had somebody else read it for him and pass on what they think are the relevant points. Anyone who has had the career he has had and has such a shaky understanding of it has clearly paid it no direct attention themselves.

I have nobody to vote for in my constituency. Women have been disenfranchised just as they were 100 years ago.

Great intervention by JKR at the right moment.

Right now there is maximum attention being paid. We can't stop Labour winning, but we can push them in a better direction.

Rosie, JKR were always right - you can pretend they only became right when Blair said something, but that is a lie.

The SNP are going to lose badly, because they pretended women did not exist.

Labour could be in their position in 2028 - because when they take power the Tories will put all the blame for gender madness on them. Being trapped into being responsible for criminals, medical experiments on kids and cheats is not a great move.

Lets say Labour follow through on their aim to target crime against women. Newsflash that means arresting a LOT more "trans" criminals especially as more and more criminals know that claiming enby or trans status is a great way to gain special treatment. How is that going to look? Even if they hide the stats the high profile cases will mount up.

There are going to be many more cases of medical malpractice.

Women will keep saying true things and people will go crazy.

JKR is only going to get MORE powerful because from 2026 onwards the most popular TV show on the planet is going to be Harry Potter.

Meanwhile as the populist right gets more powerful one of their biggest weapons is going to be the fact is "liberals" are lying about biology. It is a HUGE issue because it undermines everything else. If you lie about women existing you are going to lose people's trust over time.