#labour party

[probablyasocialecologist]

#uk politics #ukpol #labour party #keir starmer

[ayeforscotland]

It's honestly frustrating how weirdly fucking tribal Labour are when it comes from agreeing with other parties. Just call for a ceasefire??? They're so fucking concerned about 'giving ground' to the SNP than actually doing the right thing.

#AyeforScotland #British politics #UK politics #Labour Party #Keir Starmer

[septictankie]

#socialism #communism #marxism #politics #us politics #anti capitalism #two party system #democrats #republicans #uk politics #conservative party #labour party #Lenin #Vladimir Lenin

[scavengedluxury]

#uk politics #royal family #keir starmer #labour party #Sir Kid Starver

[tautittology]

your NUT could cost us the election

#labour party #uk politics

[coochiequeens]

The tide is turning for the TQ+. And they have no one to blame but themselves

Wes Streeting last night admitted he had been wrong to say that “trans women are women” amid a major Labour row over the Cass review into NHS gender care.

The shadow health secretary said the controversial LGBT rights group Stonewall – where he used to work – had got it wrong with its slogan.

In a major about-turn for the party, he told The Sun that he now admitted “there are lots of complexities” on the trans issue but that he was prepared to take criticism “on the chin”.

It came as Labour became embroiled in another trans row after Mr Streeting welcomed the review and pledged to implement it in full.

The shadow health secretary said the report raised “some serious concerns that are pretty scandalous”.

But Rosie Duffield, a Labour MP placed under investigation by the party last year for campaigning against gender ideology, pointed out that women who had exposed the scandal had been “blanked, sidelined and dismissed” by male leaders simply for speaking up.

Last night Mr Streeting was asked on The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots programme whether he stood by Stonewall’s claim that “trans women are women, get over it”, he admitted: “No.”

He added: “To the extent that – and I say this with some self-criticism and reflection – if you’d asked me a few years ago, on this topic, I would have said trans men are men, trans women are women. Some people are trans, get over it. Let’s move on. This is all blown out of proportion.

“And now I sort of sit and reflect and think actually, there are lots of complexities.”

He went on: “I take the criticism on the chin. And at the same time, I also think that there’s been some absolutely ugly rhetoric directed towards trans people who are at the wrong end of all of statistics on hate crime, on self harm, suicide, mental health.”

Labour has long been divided on trans issues and has been accused of flip-flopping on its stance in recent years.

The party no longer has plans to bring in self-ID for trans people, and Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has rowed back from saying “trans women are women”, and now states that a woman is an “adult female” and that 99.9 per cent of them do not have a penis.

Mr Streeting’s comments angered the Labour Left. The Corbynite group Momentum tweeted: “The Cass review ignored dozens of scientific studies, coming to a harmful conclusion of limiting access to gender-affirming care for trans youth.

“Anti-trans campaigners have celebrated it. So it’s highly disappointing that Labour’s leadership is welcoming it unreservedly.”

Yesterday, feminist Julie Bindel demanded an apology from Mr Streeting for failing to support her gender-critical views when he was president of the National Union of Students.

Earlier this year, the party dropped a year-long investigation into a complaint that Ms Duffield had been transphobic for liking a tweet by Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, who is now a gender-critical campaigner.

However, despite the changes, critics of the Labour leadership say gender-critical women in the party continue to be sidelined or not selected.

Wes Streeting says the Cass report raised 'some serious concerns that are pretty scandalous' CREDIT: Jay Williams

The Cass review, published on Wednesday, said much of the evidence for gender medicine was flimsy and that drugs such as puberty blockers should be used with extreme caution as children who think they are trans may have mental health problems.

Dr Hilary Cass, the paediatrician behind the report, said some NHS gender clinics refused to comment on requests for information.

On Never Mind the Ballots, Mr Streeting said: “I think we’ve got to ask ourselves why is it that we’ve seen medical interventions that have been given on the basis of very weak evidence?

“How is it that clinicians have been silenced or afraid to come forward? Why is it that a group of young people who are extremely vulnerable are waiting years to access treatment?

“I think there’s plenty of blame to go around. I’m pretty angry actually that despite this review having been commissioned there are some NHS trusts that refused to co-operate.

“And I want to send a clear message to them that under a Labour government there’ll be accountability for that, you’re not going to get away with it. And I want to work constructively with the Government to try to get this right.”

Earlier, he had tweeted: “Children’s healthcare should always be led by evidence and children’s welfare, free from culture wars…

“The Government must now immediately act, but if they do not, the next Labour government will work to implement the expert recommendations of the Cass review, to ensure that young people are receiving appropriate and high-quality care.”

This prompted Ms Duffield to retweet the statement, with the message: “To the many women blanked, sidelined, dismissed by male leaders when speaking up and exposing this for years.”

And Ms Bindel, a former Labour Party member, wrote: “Glad to see you are now openly critical of the gender ideology that led to the atrocities against children outlined in the Cass report.

“I am open to accepting an apology from you. In 2008, when you were NUS president, I was no-platformed alongside five fascist groups for ‘transphobia’.

“I contacted you and asked for your help. You gave none. I asked you to condemn those that had orchestrated the no-platforming, and you refused.

“Have you any idea of the reputational damage this caused me? How it gave others permission to no-platform, denounce and defame me?

“How it meant that I could be slandered by other organisations, and so many, many universities around the UK and elsewhere? If this sounds bitter then good, because I am.”

To this message, Ms Duffield said: “Thank you for leading us all here Julie. Without you, most of us wouldn’t have had a clue what had been happening to children who were far too young to have the critical faculties or agency to consent.”

Addressing Ms Bindel’s accusation, Mr Streeting replied: “From memory (16 years on, so correct me if I’m wrong!) I replied to confirm that you weren’t on NUS’ no platform policy and as this was in relation to a motion passed by the autonomous women’s campaign I was not empowered to overturn it (not least as a male president!).”

#Trans women are men #Labour Party #NHS gender care #Wes Streeting is a rare man that can admit that he was wrong #Rosie Duffield is speaking the truth #Sir Keir Starmer finally admits that women don't have penises #Men seeing the light after women have suffered from stating the obvious #Cass review #Dr Hilary Cass urges caution when gives children life altering drugs and treatments

[damnesdelamer]

Just saw an advert for Labour in which Starmer came so close to unironically saying 'make Britain great again' it was insane. He's such a fucking conservative. His pitch to get us to vote Labour is literally 'more police' (because it's not as if any British cops have abducted and/or murdered anyone in recent years) and 'teach your kids what businesses want' (because we all miss industrial Britain's glory days of child labour) and 'indefinite growth' (because nothing says environmental sustainability like unfettered capitalist expansion). Like these are actual quotes. Tory plant, fuck.

#British politics #Keir Starmer #Starmer #Labour Party #Britpol #British general election #general election #original

[convertgrapeling]

"get the Tories out!!!"

there isn't any voting the Tories out. voting is over. time to start trashing stuff.

#uk politics #labour party #red tory scum #sir kid starver #kieth #keir starmer child harmer

[getpoliticaluk]

Labour are on track to win a landslide victory,

you can vote green and know you aren’t enabling a Tory back door victory, I myself am planning to vote snp as a voter in Scotland

the tories will have been in power for 14 years next month their time in power is done everyone in Westminster knows it’s why the tories are in burn mode,

it’s going to be a starmer coronation so it’s important that it’s tempered by a left wing since he’s forced all the Labour left out

#tories out #british politics #conservative party #tory party #uk politics #politics #vote #keir starmer #labour party #green party #cass report #election watch 2024

[freenorthnow]

#uk politics #labour party

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

A new consensus has emerged in British politics: peaceful protesters are dangerous, hateful extremists, but apologists for the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians are mainstream, respectable moderates. From his prime ministerial bully pulpit, Rishi Sunak declares there is a “growing consensus” that “mob rule is replacing democratic rule”. The world has been turned upside down, and you are entitled to ask why.

I'm not keen generally to give The Guardian clicks, as it's centrist central, but this is an excellent article by Owen Jones. Please read and share it, even if you're not in the UK - people need to know what this country is.

#uk politics #owen jones #the guardian #palestine #israeli occupation #conservative party #labour party #snp

[probablyasocialecologist]

Cathy had voted Labour all her life. Then she heard an LBC interview with Keir Starmer. In it, he was asked if it was “appropriate” that Israel should besiege Gaza, cutting off power and water. “I think Israel does have that right,” Starmer replied. Cathy immediately resigned from the party, which she joined three years ago when Starmer was elected leader. “This has been the last straw,” she tells me. Previous straws, she says, include a raft of policies that Labour had watered down, and Tory policies that Labour would not repeal. But Labour’s position on the siege of Gaza has killed off the little faith she had left.

[...]

The consistency in the position of several Labour voters I spoke to over the past few days is striking. The main assertion: they will not be voting for this Labour party. The reason: the party crossed a line by effectively endorsing Israel’s killing and besieging of civilians. The language of a final reckoning came up a lot: “a red line”, “a line in the sand”, “the straw that broke the camel’s back”, a “mask has slipped”. And the anger is by no means sectarian. “It’s easier to frame it as a Muslim issue,” says Calum, a member who has left the party. “It’s not a Muslim issue. It’s a human one.” Labour’s damage limitation response did little but entrench this view of an untrustworthy, cynical leadership. It took Starmer days to address his LBC comments, and then, bizarrely, he claimed that he never said them at all. Then there was his visit to a mosque and Islamic centre in south Wales, a sanitation exercise that backfired epically. On social media, Starmer posted images of smiling congregants, saying he had “repeated our calls for hostages to be released, more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, for water and power to be switched back on, and a renewed focus on the two-state solution”. A statement issued by South Wales Islamic Centre via the Muslim Council of Wales rejected Starmer’s version of how the meeting went, stressing that his “social media post and images gravely misrepresented our congregants and the nature of the visit”.

#uk politics #palestine #israel #keir starmer #labour party

[ayeforscotland]

Evil party for evil people.

#ayeforscotland #scottish politics #british politics #uk politics #Labour Party

[mouth-almighty]

@ayeforscotland since we're on the subject of Labour being shit.

#Labour Party #Palestine #Keir Starmer #uk politics

[vyorei]

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Jeremy Corbyn #England #UK #Labour Party

[tweetingukpolitics]

#uk political news #political threads #conservative party #labour party #uk news #uk politics #rishi sunak #uk economy