"Those who came before us - the patriots at Normandy and Selma. Seneca Falls and Stonewall...they did not struggle, sacrifice, and lay down their lives, only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms...[and] submit to the will of another petty tyrant" - @KamalaHarris
Gisèle Pelicot walking to take the stand today, her strength echoing in every step:
“It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them,” she told the court.
"I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don't want them to be ashamed any longer,"
Ten years ago this month that David Cameron dispensed with my services as AG. I had told him that his plans to scrap the HRA and threaten to leave the ECHR if it proved incompatible with his British Bill of Rights were unworkable and would not help solve our security or immigration challenges one bit. So it proved. When published, his plans were quickly shown to be flawed and never implemented.
Ten years on, despite the repeated huffing and puffing, we still have both the HRA and the ECHR. This despite having had Suella Braverman as both Home Secretary and as a parody AG.
One might have hoped that the penny would have dropped that the policy serves no useful purpose, as any minor benefit will be entirely outweighed by the downsides. We must be thankful that Rishi Sunak seems to have realised this as did the last AG Victoria Prentis.
So it is depressing to see candidates for the Conservative leadership such as Tom Tugendhat return yet again to this theme. It has become a kind of ritual, without which no candidate feels they could be acceptable to the membership. And that I am afraid also shows how the Conservative Party continues to be mired in ideological fantasies that lead directly to its wipe out this year. For a Party whose members used to laugh at the inanity of Labour supporters singing the Red Flag at the end of their conferences, it is a sad reflection on where common sense has gone.
@RobertJenrick This is one of the most astonishing videos I have ever seen posted by a Conservative MP, let alone a candidate for the leadership. Most of it is twaddle, a series of promises of change that leaving the ECHR will do nothing to take forward.
@JaneyGodley Thank you for your transparency, it’s going to help so many other people in the same situation help to share their stories. Sending all the love for as much peace as possible for you and your loved ones ❤️
Absolutely disgusting to see #FarageRiots trending again. How dare people use the #FarageRiots hashtag when Nigel has made it absolutely clear that he is both upset and enraged by the #FarageRiots thing.
Stop it. Stop it now.
After a violation of their bodies, survivors of rape and incest are being told they cannot make decisions about what happens to them next—all because of Trump Abortion Bans.
This is immoral. Women and girls like Hadley deserve better.