I just want to say I used to go see Izzard, a wonderful brilliant comic. I did Start the Week with him when he started talking about being a transvestite and his childhood loss. I thought him brave and cool and no issue. What happened? Ego and this pretence of actual womanhood?
Been bombarded with hate since I stood up for brave Eddie Izzard. No wonder there’s so few womxn in politics if this is what they have to deal with! History shows that when powerful womxn speak up they’re attacked; just look at Winnie Mandela, Mary Tudor & Cilla Black. #LGBTQ 🏳️⚧️
Absurd that @miriam_cates MP is being investigated over 'claims that she has caused 'significant damage to the reputation of the House as a whole, or of its members generally'
Proof that the Tory establishment hate her: someone close to a senior member of government told me last week he thinks she is 'more National Socialist than National Conservative'
The perma-Party have spent the last decade betraying the British public on immigration; trashed the economy with tax-and-print Treasury policy; and marginalised the opposition as waging "toxic culture wars"
They then have the 𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭 to call Cates a Nazi, and subject her to these process-as-punishment intimidation tactics?
Cates is one of the few politicians brave enough to hold government to account when it willfully fails to fulfil its manifesto pledges
If they persecute her for having enough passion to avert course, then they show their true intention as being to continue to steward the country into avoidable decline
This is why the Conservative government will lose the next election -- and why, at this rate, they deserve to
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