The govt may have decided that sexual orientation / gender identity Conversion Therapy should be treated separately, but the public does not: Britons want to see both banned
Support ban on sexual orientation CT: 65%
Support ban on gender identity CT: 62%
https://t.co/zAQb7yKygd
For the record also, 4 years ago Jeremy launched our programme to tackle Putin’s friends’ tax avoidance & money laundering, 8 years ago backed Ukrainian miners in their strikes & 10 years ago campaigned against the murder of journalists under Putin. Few others were with us.
The @EHRC statements on #GRAReform & #BanConversionTherapy:
1. Creates further barriers to LGBTI equality
2. Ignores the lived experience of LGBTI people
3. Damages access to rights for trans & NB people
We stand with colleagues in the #LGBTI sector 🌈💛https://t.co/sk5zvkTJKi
‘gay liberation was a radical, socialist, and anti-imperialist movement which aimed to transform society at every level. You could even argue that many of the demands of the present-day trans movement are modest by comparison’ 💯endorse this message 👏🏻
I wrote about the efforts to mischaracterise gay liberation as a milquetoast, single-issue, rights-based campaign — and why we need to reclaim a socialist queer politics
https://t.co/3DCWSO95pJ
On Corbyn, Nandy says: "I don’t think you should see the Labour whip reinstated until he’s apologised". If he stood as independent against Lab at next election (after being deselected by NEC), she "would go and knock on those doors" for Lab candidate. https://t.co/YW6B8Zgih0
So Blakeley is either an expelled posho who realised too late her statement made her look like a tit or she’s a unfunny posho who pointlessly mocked someone actually doing something to redress the imbalance in education.
Watched both Casino Royale’s and sorry to let you all know but the ‘67 one is obviously the best Bond, like totally exquisite, hands down wins on every metric - a wonderful mess of a film A+