Char

English. European. Feminist. Love to hate politics. 29.

[Char @charwrites_]

BIG NEWS 🚨 when Labour is behind in the polls it’s Keir’s fault, but when Labour are ahead in the polls it has nothing to do with Keir.

[Char @charwrites_]

@RobertJenrick Well good job he’s not going on holiday isn’t it you daft opportunistic prick.

[Char @charwrites_]

The kind of c*nts that will then wear a poppy in November. Brain dead.

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

More evidence of certain communities refusing to integrate.

[Char @charwrites_]

I’m sorry but what do people want keir to say? The rioters do not deserve sympathy.

Our sympathy should go to the victims & families in Southport, the BAME community who have suffered racist abuse and violence and finally to the communities that have been shattered by the EDL.

[Char @charwrites_]

A bear wouldn’t throw a brick at a mosque, set fire to a police station, throw up a nazi salute in a town square or get smashed on stella and be violent at a vigil for 3 dead little girls.

[Char @charwrites_]

I’m tired of hearing people say these people are just disgruntled, angry members of the public.

They’re racist, thuggish, knuckle dragging morons who couldn’t care less about girls or children.

They care about their ideology and white supremacy above all else.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

The arsonists last night destroyed a Citizens Advice Bureau.

For those outside the UK, that's a place where the British public, particularly low income or disadvantaged communities, get free legal advice and support.

Staff are devastated.

"We're protecting our community"

[Char @charwrites_]

‘Women’s rights activists’ are more upset about a biological woman beating another biological woman than an actual male child rapist who is playing for the Dutch volleyball team in the Olympics.

Bigotry really rots the brain.

[Char @charwrites_]

@trussliz @RNC desperate

[Char @charwrites_]

amazing lad don’t get me wrong but why are we stating his age like he’s a toddler

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Youngest goalscorer ever at the Euros.

16 years, 11 months, 27 days old.

Three assists and one goal.

Generational. 💎✨

[Char @charwrites_]

They really are mask off all the time. You can’t fault them for being direct. Literally and openly saying they’re a bunch of untrustworthy predators.

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

News Flash 🚨

The fox is in the henhouse

Day 1

[Char @charwrites_]

If the conservative membership vote in this vile creature they will have fallen lower than ever before.

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

Suella Braverman’s speech in Washington this evening contains a blistering attack on pro-LGBT Tories.

She says the pride (progress) flag has been flown on govt buildings as if marking “occupied territory”, accusing Tory colleagues of supporting a “horrible political campaign” which supports the “mutilation of children” and leaves her “physically repulsed”.

[Char @charwrites_]

@RupertLowe10 The solution to actually fixing crime is often via rehabilitation schemes rather than just building more prisons like it’s some kind of 🍆 measuring contest.

[Char @charwrites_]

If I were ever lucky enough to be a cabinet minister you bet I’d be serving c*nt on my walk to No 10. Love you Queen @AngelaRayner

[Char @charwrites_]

The wealthiest prime minister we ever had just left office and men are getting upset about a woman in a £550 suit.
Cope.

[Jonny Sharples @JonnyGabriel]

The Rt Hon Jordan Pickford MP @JPickford1 has been appointed Secretary of State for Defence @DefenceHQ.

[Char @charwrites_]

The British far-left will always be an enigma to me. Desperate for a homophobic, sexist, abusive POS to win all the while pretending that their grotesque brand of politics somehow takes the moral highground.

[Steve W @StevenGWalker74]

Gut wrenching. Jody McIntyre was only 700 votes away from nuking the narcissist.

[Char @charwrites_]

The ministerial appointments are so refreshing. Actual experts in their field and/or people with lived experiences that relate to their posts.

I can barely remember the feeling of being proud in the people that represent us. It feels good 🌹

[Char @charwrites_]

i really read this whole damn thing to find out that Keir Starmer once gave her a dodgy look on a bicycle

[Allison Bailey @BluskyeAllison]

I made my mind up about Keir Starmer's character years ago. It’s an account of what felt like intimidation by a senior barrister against a pupil barrister - me.

It’s a highly personal account I share now for the first time, as Sir Keir is poised to lead Labour into government. My experience may interest those keen to gain insight into the man’s character when he thinks no one that matters is looking.

Twenty-two years ago, I was a 32-year-old 'baby barrister'. It was 2002, and I had won one of four places at the prestigious Doughty Street Chambers (DCS) to complete my ‘2nd six’ - six months of training, the last hurdle before becoming a fully qualified practising barrister.

The second six months of pupillage is that heady moment when we pupil barristers rise to our feet for the first time in court to advocate for our lay client or on behalf of the state.

It’s an incredibly steep learning curve, which one is guided through by a pupil supervisor, pupil mistress, or master in old money. It’s a notoriously difficult and competitive process; in the end, pupils compete for a permanent tenancy or seat in chambers.

So, when DSC asked me who I wanted to guide me through pupillage and who I wanted as my pupil supervisor, I asked for Keir Starmer. I was ever so gently informed that Keir wasn’t taking pupils any longer. Honestly, I wouldn’t have been Keir Starmer pupil material. I just wasn’t good enough.

So, I requested one of the barristers who conducted my second interview at DSC, the brilliant Philippa Kaufmann. As it turned out, Kaufmann was Keir Starmer’s recent ex-long-term partner, and she agreed to be my pupil supervisor. I wasn’t Phillippa Kaufmann pupil material either, and I will always be grateful to her for taking me on nonetheless.

Like Keir, Philippa was on an apparent trajectory to the very top. Like Keir, both would soon take silk and become Queen’s Counsel, as it was known under the reign of Elizabeth II.

These were heady days, exciting and utterly terrifying. I was in awe of practically everything and everyone at DSC. I got to experience human rights law as practised by some of the finest barristers in the country.

Almost everyone at DSC was friendly and offered to help with any urgent questions or situations a newly qualified barrister was bound to need help navigating, with one standout exception — Keir Starmer.

Although I was at DSC for over two years and attended the big bash Keir threw when he took silk in 2002, which was entirely by convention, the pupils were automatically invited; Keir Starmer never once acknowledged me during all of that time, never said ‘hello’ that I can recall.

There are things you are strongly advised not to do as a pupil: don’t get drunk at chambers parties and don’t get a crush on your pupil supervisor. So, of course, I did both.

I fell in love with my pupil supervisor, Phillippa Kaufmann. It was ridiculous, of course, but at the time, it felt incredibly serious. Just like getting drunk at chambers parties, it was something that was known about at DSC.

One evening in chambers, I was in an otherwise empty clerks room at DSC with Phillippa doing some paperwork when we were joined, entirely by coincidence, first by Paul Brooks, who would become Phillippa’s partner and the father of her children and then Keir Starmer. It was awkward, and it was tense. No one was talking. No one was looking at each other. We just got on with whatever we were working on, sitting or standing a couple of feet away from each other. Keir Starmer seemed to me to be quite furious. We all sat silently: the ex-partner, the new partner to be, and the lesbian with a crush.

Sometime later that evening, I walked out of DSC onto Doughty Street. As I did so, I encountered Keir Starmer directly opposite, preparing to ride his bicycle away from chambers.

When he saw me, he stopped, faced me, and stood there glaring at me, saying not a word.

What do you do when you are a pupil and the leading barrister of his generation, a complete superstar, is apparently trying to intimidate you? I imagine the pupil’s handbook would tell me to walk away, now.

I stopped, faced him, and glared right back, saying nothing.

There we stood, staring each other down from across Doughty Street - Keir Starmer and a lowly pupil, for what felt like minutes.

There are some things no amount of education can teach you. I may not have grasped the intricacies of human rights law, but I knew how to stand my ground in the face of what I saw as this man’s attempt to intimidate me.

Kier Starmer eventually gave up, hopped on his bicycle and cycled away - and only then did I walk away.

Whatever Sir Keir’s many achievements, I will never forget the character of the man I encountered that evening on Doughty Street.

Despite this, I would vote for Keir Starmer’s Labour if I believed that women’s rights and lesbian rights were safe in his hands at this pivotal moment in history, but I don’t.

I predict that Keir Starmer will sell women and lesbians down the river unless we make it politically impossible for him to do so. We have formed alliances across political lines. This is our great strength. Let us bring it to bear now.

[Char @charwrites_]

I presume Ed Davey is currently hurtling down a water flume or something while this is going on, and you know what, I absolutely love that for him. #battleforno10

[Char @charwrites_]

now I know rishi likes a cheeky twix and a gummy bear I won’t hesitate to vote tory for the first time in this election x