I am. I stood for Party of Women in Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend.
The best way to make POW more effective is for more women to join POW and more women to stand for POW in elections. There should be plenty to have a shot at before the next General Election.
www.partyofwomen.org/
I have to laugh at the armchair politicians in this thread sniping at KJK's campaign strategy.
None of us standing expected to get over 5% of the votes cast, which we would need to do to get our £500 deposit returned.
Look what value for money we got though - this is strategy!
*Royal Mail Unaddressed Leaflets Delivery - Normal Cost"
https://www.royalmail.com/business/marketing/mail/door-to-door
"For as little as £500 you could reach up to 8,000 households
83% of door drop items are engaged with by customers*"
But Election Leaflets are delivered FOR FREE by the Royal Mail.
For my £500 deposit the Royal Mail delivered not to "up to 8,000" households but to 60,300 households!
For £500 POW leaflets were delivered in my Constituency to 76,245 voters.
In many households there would, obviously, be children under the age of 18. Too young to vote this time but, by the time they are old enough vote in a General Election, we want to them to become as familiar with a Party of Women candidate standing in a local election as a candidate for any other party. That should be their norm and expectation.
Every time a POW candidate stands for an election we can get the message across that it is perfectly OK to acknowledge the reality of sex, perfectly normal to challenge the elite orthodoxy of "gender affirmation" for children as abusive.
Every time there is a hustings or a chance to speak at a count, even if we don't win, we can get our message across. The videos of candidates speaking are scattered across different social media platforms - I have not yet got a list of links.
KJK spoke well at the Bristol Central hustings and never mind the man shouting "Rubbish!" after she spoke. She was quite poorly by that stage. She had not let up with her regular LWS activities and YouTube live-streams, was busy with her own campaign yet every night all the Candidates had an hour's Zoom with her.
That woman is a power house - and to suggest as PP have done that she lacks campaigning strategy or has "undermined the cause" is frankly ludicrous.
I have also seen some supposed feminists bemoaning the fact that the Women's Equality Party (WEP) was/is a "lost opportunity" . . . and how much better it would have been if WEP had done as well as POW . . . so at one and the same time POW made a pathetic showing - but isn't it a shame that WEP did not do as well as POW?
POW knocked the duplicitously named "Women's Equality Party" off the map. WEP has been going for 9 years, has "celebrity" founders, big donations from a Google employee (to make sure his "trans daughter" has a leg-up into UK politics) and what did they achieve?
WEP has funding from the Google Guy.
POW had some candidates who had never used a spreadsheet but we had support from seasoned candidates and election agents, former activists from the "big parties" who helped with tech support and gave advice about how to navigate the insane complexities of the electoral system, legal issues, etc.
WEP stood 4 candidates.
POW stood 16 candidates.
POW had zero funds, fielded 4 times as many candidates as WEP and has only been in existence since February.
Some WEP candidates also got fewer votes than some POW candidates.
If any party is an embarrassment to the women's rights movement it is WEP - not Party of Women. But that is too embarrassing to admit for the snobs who fawn over celebrities, refer to KJK as a "T-Shirt saleswoman" and roll their eyes and tut at the language of working class women who have not had their tongues tamed into submission by middle-class identity politics and are not hamstrung by purity spiral traps.
If they want to start their own party, let them have a go. If they think they can wrangle the Labour Party now that it is in Government, I sincerely hope that they can.
In the meantime, if anyone wants to help POW, please join us 💚🤍💜 xx
Kellie-Jay's closing statement from the Bristol 24/7 Bristol Central hustings #POW #PartyOfWomen