Caroline

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

You look at Labour this week and wonder if anyone in government is thinking straight.

Assisted dying back in Parliament. Labour MPs planning a “summer of sex”. Billions for cycle lanes while defence is underfunded.

It’s like the Labour students union is running the country.

Britain needs focus. Defence. Energy. Work. Security. Growth.

So I’m giving a speech at 11am today on how we solve the problem of Defence funding.

The Conservatives are doing the hard thinking because our country deserves better than gimmicks, drift and fatuous nonsense.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 WHEN FORMER SPY CHIEFS MI6 START WARNING THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE LISTEN

Sir Richard Dearlove did not mince his words.

Britain, he says, is being governed by a "bunch of students" who fail to grasp the dangers facing the world.

His concern is not party politics.

It is national security.

And when a former head of MI6 openly questions whether the government understands the scale of the threats ahead, that should concern everyone.

Because intelligence chiefs rarely speak this bluntly unless they believe something has gone badly wrong.
@TVKev

[Caroline @carolson8]

@drsanjoykumar @nottsinquiry Wow 😥

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

David Lammy’s proposals to restrict the right to jury trial have been examined by the Justice Committee of the House of Commons.

And. Well. Um.

It’s *quite* the report.

I think it’s actually worse than politely scathing.

It’s embarrassing 👇🏼🪡🧵

[Caroline @carolson8]

@MsPollyClark I couldn't read it all because we lost our Sally just 4 weeks ago and I'm still raw. We called her the comeback queen until we had to accept that her time had come x

[Caroline @carolson8]

@sappholives83 The thing i don't get is that women will wear a hijab... and then plaster their face with makeup???

[Caroline @carolson8]

@DreyfusJames Torn between E and A...

[Caroline @carolson8]

@cathydevine56 'Forced to' FFS!

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

Uber privileged, posh actress #EmmaCorrin pretends she isn’t a woman but is thrilled to take a woman’s award

How come this isn’t massively triggering for her? I thought recognising Emma is actually a woman was akin to genocide 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Caroline @carolson8]

@JournalistJill Young girl I work with asked her women's darts team why they were allowing a TW in, and they kicked her out 😒

[Caroline @carolson8]

@DreyfusJames I made a conscious decision not to watch it because I feared it would make me angry and suspicious of the police. I have to trust that the copper will be dealt with appropriately and hope that the majority of serving officers would condemn his actions

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Carrying a kirpan like this also solves the issue of religious belief.
We don’t need a long and sharp blade to fulfil our need to carry a ceremonial dagger.

[Caroline @carolson8]

@MarlaFights @MaeveHalligan This did make me chuckle, thank you 😁

[Caroline @carolson8]

@JoshWalkos Now for me, if this scenario we're to happen, a TW saying yes to having children, and if I were the employer, I would cite that I didn't hire them, because they clearly had mental health issues...

[Caroline @carolson8]

@CallMeAl_KPSS @JamesEsses Yep and her father films her 🤢

[Caroline @carolson8]

@salltweets @MRobertsQLD @SenKatyG @PaulineHansonOz 'How about you leave that up to us to figure out for ourselves' OMFG 😡😡😡😡😡 what an absolute pompous, passive aggressive, thing to say against women!

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

Men are so terrifying that men who say they are women must be given sanctuary from them. But women who don’t want men in their lavatories are pearl-clutching bigots. Got that everyone?

[Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK]

A brief update on the @Indep_Inq_GG “Grooming gang” Inquiry…

This week the Inquiry panel for the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (the official title, not my choice of words) was questioned by the Home Affairs Select Committee. We hadn’t been made aware this was taking place and only found out on the day via a social media post and hence we couldn’t let our survivors know in advance. Much of what was said however has left us with more questions than it answered in all honesty. What was repeated was the importance of placing victims and survivors at the “heart of the panel”!!!

This is what that has looked like so far…….

We have not heard from the Inquiry team since we took over two dozen survivors and their families to meet with them in February. In that emotionally charged meeting, survivors spoke about their experiences and their anger at how badly they have been failed, most for decades. They shared their expertise and expectations for the Inquiry.

Their anger and trauma was palpable, and most of that was actually directed at the “establishment” including police, cps, social services, government rather than towards their abusers tbh! They clearly demanded the agencies that have failed them (and still are in many cases!) are held ACCOUNTABLE, right up to the top of those agencies!

In early March, we submitted both our and the survivors’ extensive comments to the draft Terms of Reference. We have received no reply.

In April, our legal team @HoweAndCo wrote to the Inquiry on behalf of all our survivor group expressing the importance of victims and survivors being granted proper legal status in the Inquiry and public funding to ensure they can be properly represented by legal experts. This will go some way to addressing the imbalance between survivors and the very agencies, organisations and individuals whose decisions have caused so much of their trauma. Police forces and local authorities around the country will have undoubtedly been working with their legal teams since the inquiry was announced almost a year ago.

This is PRECISELY the imbalance I saw 8 years ago when I was involved in the @IICSAVSCP Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). Because the “Organised networks” strand became little more than a platform for public institutions to say what a great job they were now going with barely any survivors heard, it became a meaningless paper exercise and that’s imo why we’re here now….

I’ll leave you to read the Home Office’s response attached below and our reply and make up your own mind as to whether we should have confidence that this will be granted.

So many survivors have fought hard for this Inquiry. People are sharing traumatic details of the worst times of their lives again in the hope that they will finally see people held accountable for decisions that destroyed their lives. Survivors must have legal status and representation if there is even the slightest chance of this happening.

Please share far and wide. We need people pressure to make this happen. Further updates to follow next week….

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Now after guidance today - sports NGBs must regulate at ALL levels, fair sport for ALL women & girls. Not just elite. The guidance, like the law, refers to the physical advantage of the average male v female. Not elite female v mediocre male. All women & girls must have sex based sports categories free from all males. The @wsusportsunion will be legally forcing sports who continue to discriminate on the basis of sex. Changing rooms & toilets for women & girls must also be free from males, inc public & private leisure centres. We can find way to include everyone but not at the expense of females opportunities, safeguarding or dignity.