Labour’s control freakery has borked. They are a hot mess over gender. A week away from a General Election, and they are spouting contradictory and ill-informed thoughts in place of policies.
Last week, Keir ‘Buddha’ Starmer proclaimed: “My view in life is to give respect and dignity to everyone, whatever their position.” Christ (and I mean ‘Christ’ as in, ‘What actual fuckery is this?’)!
Of course, one presumes he wasn’t talking about Rishi Sunak or Andrew Tate or Vladimir Putin. And probably not Kemi Badenoch or any of the venomous women I actually know, such as JK Rowling and Rosie Duffield, either. It is fair to say that he pays zilch respect to their views by not even trying to understand them.
He now wants to meets the fabulous Miss Jo, since she has publicly explained why she has abandoned Labour (because they have abandoned women), but she appears to be ghosting him. It’s almost as if she means what she says…
What is a future Prime Minister to do when he cannot summon these uppity women at his beck and call? (And, of course, not even acknowledging the fact that he has dismissed them for years is a given.
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We give off noxious fumes, us such females, and up until now the Labour view was that they risked being contaminated by, I dunno… our rationalist, materialist views about biology, truth, science, women’s experience and women’s rights? Nor is the left much interested in freedom of speech these days. Hurty feelings now prevail over inconvenient facts.
So keep off the grass, Gautama Starmer, and stay stuck in that hedge. You clearly believe that the odd splinter up your arse is a price worth paying for sitting on that fence, though I doubt it (you wouldn’t want to get a nasty infection). Platitudes like ‘live and let live’ may go down well with your fellow bros: the podcast posse, the clueless idioterati, those who think themselves above such debates because they once went to a gay club. Those ‘down with the the kids’, glittery they/thems. Handily, they all work in jobs in which it’s better to go along with the dogma than to question it. Who cares about pronouns? Moi?? That nice David Tennant wants Kemi Badenoch not to exist any more… But do, please, continue to lecture us about “toxic debate,” Gautama Starmer (pronouns: Sir/It?).
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