Michael Carthew

I’m just amazed she said anything good at all!

What on earth did she say that was very good?

UK's Labour Party Abandoned Trans People. Here's What American Dems Can Learn. Democrats: There is no “middle ground” on equal rights. Take it from UK Labour.

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss.

US Dems could learn a lot from their failure.

Great piece from S. Baum.

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Very arrogant of the Labour MP to assume that there will be a Labour Party left for him to lead in 3-4 years

They didn’t bother to even consult trans people on a judgement that affected them the most. I responded to the consultation pointing out all of these issues.

It doesn’t matter what gender you were born as, it only matters which gender you are now. Trans women are completely different to cisgender men. They have had years of oestrogen hormones which have changed their body to be much closer to a woman than a man. That’s how powerful hormones are.

Jk Rowling shamefully misgenders people online on a daily basis and has no respect for trans rights. The Court has ruled on an issue that wasn’t causing a problem for the last 30 years because of billionaire backed pressure groups. Social liberals stand up for everyone’s rights to be themselves.

Interesting that every time we discuss women's rights at Lib Dem Conference the group that claims to care so deeply about "the rights of women and girls" is completely and utterly absent.

I can become calm now over a lot of practice but I still struggle with the sticking. I think I’m slowly improving over time.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

13 votes between 1st and 2nd

“ He’s MLK……But don’t quote him.” The truly bizarre people who are so desperate for heroes, so impoverished of leaders with integrity and goodness, so without boundaries that they are continuously manufacturing fantasies of their own nobility…..It would be just pitiable if it wasn’t so dangerous.

The other 5 were in quite right wing areas in general and 5/6 the winning party had less than 40% of the vote

WOOHOOOOOOO!!!! 😁🥳

It ended up that the Lib Dems were best placed to beat them as the greens didn’t stand in the seat previously

It was actually the Lib Dems who were the best party to challenge reform here as we’ve seen from the result tonight. Can we look forward to pieces written by Lib Dem councillors in future in the Bylines?

Seems that the Lib Dems were the best choice here

I mean she was clearly willing to compromise on trans rights…

He is completely worthless

Mimi from Sims Bustin Out

Have you contacted your local party? They are always looking for more deliverers and you don’t have to be a member to do that!

The baffling thing about Starmer's Labour Party is it didn't have to be like this. A bulletproof majority, guaranteed power for five years - and they chase Linehan and Farage.

They could have actually done some good.

Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently.

This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.

He’s their version of Cummings mistakenly seen as a genius they must worship for winning an easily winnable election.

Surely nothing will actually change until Mcsweeney is binned?

I was and still am absolutely furious about this. Conservatives are all about short term gain for long term pain and shouldn’t ever be trusted with power in any society that wants to improve and make progress.

Solihull residents need answers and a plan to deal with the problems the council faces.

It’s far worse for everyone under Labour and Conservatives alone. Lessons have been learned and they would govern far better than Labour or Conservatives. What is your solution?

Lib Dems trusted the tories and it worked out badly for them. They will never trust them again. They are also much better than Labour and Greens/corbyn don’t have much reach outside of urban centres.

It’s the stupidity of them thinking that the person who won them the landslide (Mcsweeney, Cummings) should have any say in how to govern the country. The labour right put together a coalition that didn’t like Corbyn in their party but only have authoritarian tendencies as consistent beliefs.