Rebecca Paul’s impassioned speech on women’s prisons

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https://x.com/hartleythinking/status/1993104543668998159?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

i couldn’t see another thread; apologies if there was one.

im absolutely appalled that this is still occurring

Thanks for the link, well done her, I'm so glad someone is bring up in parliament that the government is failing to apply the laws of the land.

It's now part of the official government record, the government is putting women who have been convicted of a crime in harm's way, which is another law they are breaking.

Thanks to Rebecca Paul for speaking in parliament about this and for Rosie's and Jim Shannon's input.

Thank you for posting. And to the three speakers.

A good speech. Who was the disgruntled person opposite?

I love that she replaced Crispin Blunt as the MP for Reigate after his ignominious departure from public life. Crispin must be spinning in his political grave. 😂

I was about to post this!
He was an odious man with dangerous behaviours and beliefs.

Sadly he still is, no doubt. My past tense was in reference to his status as MP.

I was thoroughly impressed with her speech (not impressed with the behaviour of the Labour Minister at the despatch box 🙄). I'm so glad to see an MP taking up this issue and pushing the Govt to do something to remedy the disastrous policy.

In the next tweet you can see the response and it’s worth watching to learn what the interventions were.

the point was made that no prisoners have been placed there under labour. So technically Tory decisions

at same time there’s a distinct lack of concern.

no idea who the woman is as who tries to intervene; her points were more around high levels of vulnerability of women being more of an issue

a stat that transwomen are higher risk of sexual assault in jail was also trotted out - that’s as maybe but still doesn’t mean they can go in with the women

Basically there are still males in women’s jails as no one has moved them.

Response here: https://x.com/hartleythinking/status/1993109896821383564?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

I was in the public gallery at the time. Rebecca was fantastic.

The whatabouters on the Labour bench were awful.

Infuriating, the political class has been doing it for decades, it was the other lot not us, we're squeaky clean.
They're in power now so they're the ones breaking the law now, not the other lot.
If the government doesn't respect the laws why should the people.

Sounds exactly like mine, either we from the same area or the Labour Party machine has been churning out clones for us to vote for or the party produces a script that everyone must read off. 🤬

Yep. This is what I don't understand about this debate - why is it suddenly the case that following the law is optional? The law is clear and settled on the issue of single-sex spaces: it was laid out explicitly and unequivocally in the Supreme Court judgement in April. I don't get why this debate is even happening.

Doesn’t look like many MPs were particularly moved to be present. Not fussed or not inclined to listen to any reality that disputes their own bekind narrative.

It was meant to start at 10pm & was about an hour late because the thing before it ran over, which didn’t help.