Jenny Smith

WORIADS
Conspicuously law-abiding woman.
Proud to be part of @TribunalTweets "providing a valuable service" (The Lawyer magazine)
Also #TeamCarrotCottage

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@OldRoberts953 Happy birthday! x

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@London_W4 I love Woodbridge - became a visitor to Suffolk only in the last couple of years but have completely fallen for the area. The Sutton Hoo rebuild @SaxonShipCo made a lovely fuss of my 3 legged dog and let us go up in the staff lift to their gallery - eleventy-twelve out of ten

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

I hope the x00,000 of people - mostly women - that pay your salary stop paying it. Because this level of incompetence is truly scandalous.

Never mind (tho I do) that you think working women should get their kit off for the lads - this guidance DOES NOT APPLY TO EMPLOYERS.

[Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @AndreaEganGS]

The EHRC Guidance on single-sex spaces is unjust and unworkable.

That's why UNISON are demanding MPs stand with trans and non-binary workers and oppose the guidance.

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@SVPhillimore Small note - I believe the speaker is Simon Cheetham KC (not Chesham).

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@FondOfBeetles @stellacreasy Hi Stella,
I'd like to echo Emma's post; I'm also a Labour member. I would have thought that if you put an EDM, you know what it means; what you hope to achieve by it; and how you intend to achieve those goals. And that you'd be happy to be open about it.
So please do explain.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Hello Stella.

(Labour Party member here, if that makes a difference)

IMO, it’s remarkable that you are co-sponsoring an EDM to reject guidance on established law, and extensively engaging/justifying this action because you think the guidance “is wrong”, yet decline to explain why you think the guidance is wrong.

You are an elected official with a national platform and accountability. Being coy about your rationale for attempting to prevent guidance on such a hotly-contested issue being approved really isn’t on.

I expect more of our parliamentarians, frankly.

Don’t you think constituents, including both the broader party constituency and non-constituents who, nonetheless, live in a country where you belong to the party in power are worthy of explanation?

You’re talking to the expert, advocates and representatives of this guidance. Maybe an actual discussion would be fruitful?

Is the guidance wring but you think the law OK?
Is the guidance wrong because you think the law is wrong?

If you think the solution is legislation, that means you wish to change the Equality Act - I don’t see another interpretation.

Your voters deserve to know how you are planning to do this. Don’t we LP members deserve to know how our party is approaching this (including the range of views on offer)?

No Debate is over.

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@DreyfusJames Oh bless - I am so pleased he's recovered/ing - what joyfulness to watch!

WHAT HAS HE ROLLED IN, THE GRUBBY LITTLE MITE??

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@akuareindorf @BettsCaro @ForWomenScot We have had to be. Nobody else (not just MPs) seemed to be doing their jobs, so women (and some men) had to work out how to do their jobs instead.
As my grandmother used to say, "if you want something done properly, ask a busy woman".

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@BertDalziel Happy birthday to Cloud! 🎶

[suzanne moore @suzanne_moore]

Inevitable I suppose that I am now being flooded with ads for motorhomes...

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@EllieChowns Its only "purpose" is to explain the Equality Act 2010 to providers of services, public functions and associations.
Please detail the way(s) in which - in your opinion - the guidance fails to do this.
If it does not so fail, then it is entirely "fit for purpose".

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@stellacreasy @Jebadoo2 @akuareindorf @EHRC Could you just quickly give the paragraph number(s) of the Code where you think it gets the law wrong?

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@JournalismSEEN The local press link has now been heavily edited and says no more than the BBC one. I wonder if there is some kind of reporting restriction in place?

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@FondOfBeetles (I am fascinated to learn that the number of vertebrae - as expected - varies much across species of mammals but incredibly rarely within a species). Thank you for the thought (and future thinking/reading-about) material

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@FondOfBeetles Is it "lets make X number" though, or, is it "let's duplicate until we run out of space and/or materials"? (I assume the latter is the reason trees keep growing for example?)

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@FondOfBeetles (I really am just thinking aloud at this point!)

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@FondOfBeetles But also! Symmetry-because-splitting - OF COURSE, makes perfect sense - but so why do we have five digits? This one isn't even a Q it's a musing - I have quite a collection of Gould's writing on evolutionary oddities and love the essays, but I don't recall hum covering that one.

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@SVPhillimore I find it truly astonishing that Maugham thinks that attempting to challenge the fact that some men cross-dress for sexual reasons is a good idea. I'm starting to think he's never met a "transwoman" and is in fact doing all of this from a no-visitors-ever bunker somewhere.

[Jenny Smith @GoodyActually]

@Transgendertrd On the plus side, "failed ideology-pushers swallowed up by failing ideology-pushers" is another way of looking at it?