Bristol council is about to be sued

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The women of wessex are planning to sue Bristol council over their behaviour including walking out of chambers when asked questions and banning questions by sex realises

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I'm not.

Sadly.

I'm seen too much self servicing bullshit in local politics clearly.

Yes, it does seem that Bristol City Council and the Green Party have been taken over by people who very much agree with many of the tenets of the far right.

You need to tell your elected representatives that. This would not be necessary if they were not so corrupted and followed due democratic process in the way that they should.

Oh my good god.

If you think this will protect our access to healthcare and the like, steam right ahead

Which rights are under threat from the far right?

the Fuckwits of the Green Party in Bristol are currently offering a massive open goal to the likes of Reform

'how can you trust the greens eh? The can't even tell you the difference between men and woman!

every time they open their stupid mouths and bleat TWAW, Reform say thank you very much

I can't believe I've lived to see a time where apparently sane human beings have suddenly decided that you just can't tell which sex it is that gives birth

What aspects of healthcare does your local council provide?

Yes, I do think that to protect access to healthcare it is necessary to, for instance, establish that somebody requesting same sex care should be given care by somebody of the same sex.

To be fair, there is an overlap between social care and health care.

Any legal fees can easily be avoided by the council writing a polite letter apologising for its behaviour, rescinding any sanctions and promising to behave itself in future.

The rights ofwomen girls & safeguarding are unimportant in precisely what areas? Do specify.

What aspects of healthcare does your local council provide?

Public Health
Sexual Health Services
Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services

BTW I'm not being snarky it's just that most people aren't aware of the extent of Local Authority healthcare provision

Their point will be made when the idiot green councillors start to obey the law and behave in a manor expected from councillors or are barred from ever holding public office again.
The only people wasting public money are the councillors refusing to do their jobs by listening to the electorate even those who they disagree with and those who voted for someone else, because that is the legal responsibility of every elected mp and councillor in the UK

Incompetent, regressive populists needlessly spaff public funds - it's hardly novel, is it?
All they had to do was obey the law & abide by the Nolan Principles, if that ask is too big then of course they'll find themselves in trouble.

Im really surprised you can sue elected officials. I thought being elected meant you could pretty much do anything you liked as long as you didn’t break the law. They could argue that the majority of people who voted for them did so because they wanted their councillors to act this way and if they have misunderstood the electorate’s wishes they will be voted out next time. That is how democracy works and it is just sour grapes on our side.

Democracy can only work with freedom of speech. Elected officials need to hear what the people they represent think and then present the counter-arguments.

Refusing to listen to questions at all is extraordinarily undemocratic.

You dont think that the human rights of 51% of the population are important?

Edited to say sorry didn't see the question

Except part of the legal requirement of being an elected mp or councillor is that they have to listen to and work for all their constituents even if you don't like them, what they say or who they support, had these muppets listened to the woman and then carried on ignoring the supreme court that would be problematic and could lead to civil discrimination cases not criminal, but by acting the way they are and putting out statements like the one the made in the Times article up thread they are refusing to obey the law when it comes to the Nolan principle and a valid case for misconduct in public office could be brought against them and thats a criminal case that could involve jail time aswell as barring them from ever holding public office again.
Those green councillors have very seriously fucked up and are only just beginning to find out

Good to see BCC being held to the same standard as everyone else. I lived there for a long time and it sees itself as a beacon of ‘progressive’, almost its own little country which is morally superior and more enlightened than everywhere else. The locals are looked down upon and the whole place is run by champagne socialists.

It's Judicial Review, JRs exist to determine the legality of public bodies' conduct & processes. Of course litigation is possible against elected officials, council officers & civil servants, they're none of them above the law. Councillors, like MPs, also have to abide by the Nolan Principles. Sadly, Bristol Greens really do seem to think themselves too special & precious to do either of those things.

I have a mate in Bristol who has serious disabilities. He is yet to see any positive result from the Council's long prattling of "diversity & inclusion".

Just a reminder Bristol council deliberately excluded women who need single sex support due to eg rape/ sexual/ domestic abuse - from being able to access Any services by refusing to fund any organisation that guarantees female only services. So none of them do.

and as they jointly fund some abuse support with North Somerset council , women are affected there too.

As @HildegardP says its only inclusion for their favourite groups- men who say they are women appear to be top trumps! Women - the victims of Mvawg -don't matter.

Absolutely it’s a nightmare in particular for physical disability - so many narrow pavements, steep hills, inaccessible paths with no accommodations. Half the city is pebbled, you can’t even get a wheelchair down certain roads.

The hierarchy is very much trans and heavy drug users at the top of the ‘vulnerability pyramid’, with disabled people, the elderly, and sex workers much lower down. So basically men at the top who are free to intimidate under the guise of ‘being vulnerable’.

That's fantastic news and about time! Brava to those women. I'm very local, used to live in North Somerset, now live in Glos and in many ways would have enjoyed living in Bristol for its restaurants and events - BUT there's no way I would do so while it's so politically anti-women.

The BBC Radio Bristol hourly news was leading yesterday late afternoon with a section of an interview with the council leader from earlier in the day where I believe he was saying he wouldn't prevent councillors from walking out if they didn't feel comfortable with "statements" from the public - there wasn't a BBC viewpoint/comment on it but I was still surprised to hear it as a key item on the news. It was from about 45mins into the John Darvall show in the morning, during one of their regular interviews with local councils.