Women & Equalities Committee 2.30pm Today, 9th June, Mary-Ann Stephenson Chair at EHRC giving oral evidence

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Work of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) 20026-27 - Oral evidence, Mary-Ann Stephenson, Chair at Equality and Human Rights Commission and John Kirkpatrick, Chief Executive Officer at Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Considering the absolute balloons on this committee, it will be well worth a watch. Only Rosie Duffield and Rebecca Paul have any sense.

You can watch live on Parliament TV from 2.30pm

https://committees.parliament.uk/event/27280/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/

I really feel like elected members of the Senedd should be professional. All this leaving when other elected members say something they don't like is so utterly childish and an insult to the people they are meant to represent. The Senedd isn't their own personal virtue signalling arena - oh look I'm on TRSOH and sod all the people in Wales who are pleased that the law has been clarified.

Refusing to listen to other politicians should be treated as what it is - contempt for parliamentary democracy. Anyone who shows such contempt should be removed from office.

I agree, all elected official who walk out of a session before it's finished should be fined.
It's like the council in Bristol where the Green's have turned the chamber into their own fiefdom, and won't allow anyone to speak about anything they don't agree with.
With any luck there's a process that can be used by Reform to charge PC with bring the democratic process into disrepute or something. I urge them to use it, that's why they were voted for, to make changes, including in the way the legacy party's behave in the chamber.
I also like them to use it, perhaps every time PC do it in future Reform can start playing Darth Vader's theme tune, make a point of ridiculing their ridicules actions.

And our halfwitted new Plaid government left the Senedd chamber last week when a Reform member of the Senedd spoke about the SC judgment and and women's rights to single-sex spaces. So much for the promise of a collaborative approach to government.

When did this happen? I can't find any reports about it and I can't find it on the Senedd website because I don't know when it happened.

10th June - debate on women's rights introduced by the new Reform MS for Flint Cristiana Emsley: members of WRN Wales were in the gallery and have posted about it:

" Was there a silent fire drill just prior to the debate? We didn’t hear one. But how else to explain the sudden departure of most of the @Plaid_Cymru MSs (including @RhunapIorwerth), the @WelshLabour ones, both of the @Greenparty MSs and the sole @WelshLibDems MS? Perhaps their female constituents should ask what was so urgent, that they had to leave so suddenly?"
x.com/WRNWales/status/2065087222051705273

And EHRC Cymru attack was not reported in the pitiful excuse for Welsh MSM as far as I can tell. Just the X post from Bash Back.