The (literal) end of the Women's Equality Party

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Proposing to close themselves: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/26/womens-equality-party-to-vote-on-closing

Shame it didn't work out - i was excited when they launched.

RIP! They lost their way early on by catering to men in various ways.
If women feel unable to vote for and support them, who else would?

They closed themselves years ago when they started prioritising men.

They could have been brilliant, instead just disappointment.

It probably would have worked if they could have kept the men out, as soon as they started to spout the twaw mantra, the wep signed their own death warrant (metaphorically)

Goodbye good riddance

Oh dear how sad never mind

Sandi can now spend more time completely failing to understand why so many women thought the WEP were utter sellouts

Totally agree with you on this. The party should be run by women for women. The moment dress wearing men were part of the discussion ( Eddie izzard etc) it was seen as an insincere gimmick and joke. Women will never be equal if we subjugated by men . A place in hell is reserved for those women who invite men in to belittle women and their limited hard won rights .

I was a founding member. I was so excited about the possibilities. And I cancelled my membership when they started prioritising men.

Good. They are not fit for purpose and I say that as someone who was very excited when they launch. They were quite good at first but quickly capitulated to centering men. Such a disappointment.

They prioritised men long before Izzard. They were campaigning for men in women’s prisons right back in 2015 when they’d barely started.

It was startling how badly they got things wrong.

Shocking! 😯

When a women’s party centres male people, and some women think that the party should centre females, it was not going to go well.

They were so naive.

Any high-viz profile group "for women" is going to be stalked by the gender zealots using the usual tactics to make sure it's not "for women" after all.
They capitulated. They were completely spineless.

Mumsnet itself has gone through that, and has amazingly come out the other side.

Any group set up for women these days really need to be prepared for what they're up against.

cannot wait for ST's analysis of what went wrong. It will be laughable bollocks, thats for sure.

Whilst we are gathered around the dearly departed, can anyone think of anything they did which made a blind bit of difference, to anything at all, ever?

S T is a nincompoop of the first order.

tried to read her bio book someone bought it me totally, jolly hockey sticks total tosh.

The normalisation of far-right narratives means it is harder for progressive campaigns to gain traction in traditional media or online platforms, Reid said.

!!!!!

Good riddance to a bunch of self serving luvvies.

I was a founding member. I was so excited. I even considered getting more involved by giving time and my relevant expertise.

I cancelled my membership when they fell into the gender ideology soup.

Shame.

The mission creep of letting in the creepy men.

The were inept from the start. They included men in their definition of women, meaning they couldn't identify the problems women faced, much less the causes and any solution.

Maybe because of this they never had anything new to add. I cant think of a time when they came up with an initiative new solution to an established problem women faced.

Im sure they were a supportive group for their members, but they could have never made a difference for women generally.

Likewise but the prompt for my departures was the lack of due process in the way that they dealt with Brunskell-Evans.

And, yes, that was the start of the straying from the path. I don't know how much money they started losing then until they ended up in thrall to the man who gave them money in return for dominating WEP's agenda and corrupting the founding principles.

Sad.

Hilariously, ST says in the article that the WEP were offered "life-changing" funding by a wealthy man on condition that they dropped "women" from the name of the party. And they refused. Ooh, such principle! So much irony - "women" already meant "women and men" to the WEP, so they might just as we have done as he asked.
They were happy to dance to the GII tune for money.

I hope they do close themselves down. Inglorious failure. They actually regressed women's equality.