Another GC woman being taken to court by the cops - Mandy Clare in Cheshire

[oldwomanwhoruns]

A quick summary - earlier in the year Mandy attended a public, Council sponsored Pride event in Cheshire, just as a quiet Observer. She was observed and recognised and mobbed. She was roughly ejected from the event by Security/cops (not sure which). Now the CPS are charging HER.

Her words:
I’m a serving Cheshire West borough councillor facing trial after being assaulted while quietly observing Winsford Pride 2025 – a supposedly “family-friendly” event – to check child safeguarding standards.

Confused children are ushered onto the Puberty Blocker pathway at Pride events and exposed to sexualised content. Councillors MUST be safe to attend and observe, free from abuse and lawfare!

She is facing a 2 Day Trial
* 16/17 December* at Chester Magistrates Court

The police have been very slow with disclosing pivotal pieces of evidence, such as her own body-work video footage and the custody interview audio and transcript - items that would normally be disclosed at a very early stage in the process.

Mandy needs to secure full disclosures and to engage a barrister to defend her in court.

If anyone feels like some gardening... I'm sure that Mandy would appreciate a few carrots

bloody hell, what a carry on!

Update!!!! All charges dropped!!!!
😊

Do you know why?

I donated just as the charges were dropped but I'm elated for her.

There will still be costs and a lot of work on the pre-trial stuff that presumably resulted in CPS dropping the case. 🤔

https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/25687237.winsford-councillor-charges-dropped-days-trial/

There's a good article in the Telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/10/reform-councillor-who-criticised-sexualised-pride-festival/

That's weird, why does my post above have the Telegraph link somehow 'access restricted?? I thought that newspaper links were permitted?

@oldwomanwhoruns - Perhaps it can tell that the article is behind a paywall?

Here's a gift link:
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/608452d6ee472b4a

Thanks for the gift link. I dislike Reform but I agree with everything she says here:

"I have been subjected to a full six months of anguish and reputational harm by the CPS Crown Prosecution Service at the behest of the police, who in turn acted at the behest of activists at this event.

Some police officers, including at the most senior level, are now political activists in plain sight, with the power to use our judicial system as a weapon against those deemed to have challenged gender ideology in any way.

This unjust attempted persecution of myself as a local councillor has suppression of free speech in relation to child safeguarding at the heart of it. If councillors can be mobbed, screamed at, assaulted and then prosecuted by the same police force who have stood by and seemingly supported this type of behaviour, democratic oversight of these types of events dies.

Pride events must not become no-go zones for elected representatives who care about child safeguarding. Winning my case is paramount in protecting everyone who speaks up in future against child safeguarding failures."

Fucking pathetic.

The police need to get a grip.

I hope Sarah Vine hands them their arses.

I despise Farage and anything to do with him, but there are reasons why Reform is polling so well and this is one of them.

From Nick Wallis's genderblog.

https://genderblog.net/mandy-clare-v-for-victory/

That’s a cracking article by Nick Wallis. What an absolutely horrifying ordeal for Mandy Clare.

There’s also an interview with Mandy on Julie Bindel’s podcast about Stephen Ireland and Surrey Pride. It’s called Pride and Predator.

Yes, good piece by Nick, really put the flesh on the bones of the story. This must be the reality of so many councils up and down the country, full of blinkered fools who just go along with this nonsense.

https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/pride-and-predator-17d?utm_medium=web
Links at the bottom of this page.

That Nick Wallis article is grim and fantastic.

Mandy Clare should be women and equalities minister when Reform win the next general election. Which they will.

This government, this ideology, couldn't be handing it to them on a bigger fucking plate.

If you're reading this Mandy, bloody well done. And I love that you have emerged a stronger woman.

I’d vote for her, and I am a proper leftie. The world is so mad I will vote for anyone with a shred of integrity regardless of their politics.

I think a lot of people will have seen that story, and not got past 'Reform councillor'. They can pat themselves on the head, and safely ignore.

Mandy has been on the Gragam Linehan YouTube for a really informative chat. Lots of background.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ybfoy_B7XUE

Yes, she was married to Michael Gove…according to Wikipedia anyway (and photographs would also indicate she’s one and the same) x

I certainly thought they were two different people. Didn't Michael Gove's wife write a column for the Daily Mail? Would a KC do that?

No. Sarah Vine the journalist was married to Gove.

Sarah Vine KC was not.

They look nothing alike.

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/the-other-sarah-vine/5050388.article

Yes she still does.

She wrote an interesting and personal article recently about losing hair from young age and how this is a problem for women that isn't talked about. https://archive.ph/onscH

ETA: This is the Journalist formerly married to Gove, definitely not the KC.