‘Transgender women’s rights are women’s rights’. The position of the deputy leader of the Labour Party.

[BackToLurk]

Pretty clear position

https://x.com/FFS_WhatNow/status/1806623661702426757/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1806623661702426757&currentTweetUser=FFS_WhatNow

All the candidates in the leadership election signed the anti-feminist pledge except Starmer and some people here imagined at the time that that meant he was on our side. Clearly he wasn't. I think it's more likely that being a lawyer he just understood better than the others that it was potentially libellous.

It's a shame that Laura Pidcock lost her seat in 2019 – she is sharper and more articulate than both Angela Rayner and Rebecca Long-Bailey put together and would have been a much better left candidate, and she is GC.

Rayner is to Starmer as Prescott was to Blair. The blunt northerner appealing to the unions and the traditional working class members (if there are any left). Starmer needs her as Blair needed Prescott to be able to say the party leadership represented the full spectrum of the Left. I suspect though that she won’t be deployed as the Enforcer in quite the same way as Prescott.

I don’t rate her or Long-Bailey (known in our household as Wrong-Daily). I really struggle to think of any quality Labour politicians that I admire these days. The entire front line shadow cabinet has disappointed me at some point or other. Andy Burnham seems to have settled for being King in the North for now. Dan Jarvis was in the rise some time ago took a step back due to his family situation but maybe he’ll get opportunities in the new government. I wish I knew of more backbench women Labour MPs - I rate my local MPs Diana Johnson and Emma Hardy for being hard working representatives of their constituents but haven’t looked up what their positions are on women’s rights because I don’t want to be disappointed in them if they toe the party line. Bit cowardly of me I know.