The political spectrum

The Conservative Party

Kemi Badenoch: ‘I do think David Tennant is a misogynist’ The Times 28.06.24

Middlesbrough councillor accused of nine child sex offences resigns from Conservative party Teeside Live 15.07.19

Mayor to be quizzed on gender neutral toilets by new Conservative councillor Teeside Live 17.06.19

The Liberal Democrat Party

Lib Dem conference descends into trans row The Telegraph 20.09.25

Ed Davey refuses 10 times to say women cannot have penises The Telegraph 18.09.25

Lib Dems to vote on blocking trans members from party roles reserved for women under reform of ‘unlawful’ diversity rules Mail 17.09.25

Liberal Democrat councillor suspended over ‘violent’ pro-trans tweet The Telegraph 04.09.25

Lib Dem trans row as members oppose leadership’s support for making it easier to legally change gender – and back puberty blocker ban for U-18s Mail 21.03.25

How whistleblowers stood up for liberal women | Zoe Hollowood | The Critic Magazine Zoe Hollowood in The Critic 28.02.25

Blame Ed Davey for party’s intolerant stance on gender The Times 21.02.25

Lib Dems back down after ‘vilifying’ gender critical campaigners The Times 20.02.25

Election hopeful called ‘bigot’ over T-shirt sues Lib Dems The Times 17.12.24

Gender row threatens to stall Liberal Democrat conference as party is accused of ‘authoritarianism and intolerance’ amid backlash to group promoting single-sex spaces Mail 16.09.24

Lib Dems must break their silence on trans treatment The Times 03.09.24

Lib Dems throw in towel over costly T-shirt battle The New European 26.08.24

Lib Dems admit discriminating against gender-critical candidate The Telegraph 27.07.24

Lib Dem women’s group claims it has been banned from promoting event over trans views Sky News 24.09.23

Now it’s ordinary women like us who are being CANCELLED by the trans lobby! Mail 21.09.23

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: Clearly women can have a penis The Times 23.05.23

Liberal Democrats and Trans Activism: Rational Voices Need to Speak Up Democracy Coma blog 24.08.21

Ed Davey accused of targeting Joanna Cherry over gender views The Times 24.06.21

The Liberal Democrats, women and safe spaces – it’s not looking good A Study in Myopia 30.03.21

Lib Dems squash internal revolt on trans rights Debbie Hayton 28.09.20

What’s to become of the Lib Dem ‘cockroaches’? James Kirkup 23.09.20

The Lib Dems’ transphobia meltdown is complete Spectator 20.09.20

Puberty-blocker drug firm donated cash to Lib Dems The Times 08.12.20

Spousal Consent and the Lib Dems Woman’s Place UK 21.09.19

“Smash Sh*t Up, It Works” – Lib Dem and Stonewall Advisor Sarah Brown Conatus News 14.02.19

Feminists not welcome in Lib Dems unless they support gender neutral toilets, says peer Telegraph 06.02.19

Liberal Democrats: Feminists, Your Views Are Not Welcome Conatus News 03.02.19

Lib Dem trans activists ‘hounded’ abuse victim  The Times 19.10.18

Here’s a pdf of a Twitter thread by Kathleen Stock showing just how nasty the Lib Dem LGBT group are.

Helen Belcher would-be Lib Dem MP owes Janice Turner, award-winning Times columnist, an apology

Some time ago I posted about how the trans cult bullies tried to prevent Times columnist, Janice Turner, from winning a prestigious award. At the time Janice commented that “a trans campaigner judge at another journalism awards resigned after I was shortlisted, making a horrific, wholly unproven link between my work and the suicide of children.” Janice Turner subsequently wrote a piece in response to the accusation, entitled Suicide should never be a political weapon, naming the trans activist as Helen Belcher. Belcher then submitted a complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) about the piece.

Thankfully sanity has prevailed. Janice has announced on Twitter that IPSO have published their ruling rejecting every one of Belcher’s allegations against her.

I note without surprise that Helen Belcher aspires to be the Lib Dem MP for Chippenham. The Lib Dems have happily given a political home to some unbelievably nasty entitled misogynistic males like Belcher, Zoe O’Connell, Sarah Brown and Aimee Challenor, as well as peers like the idiot Brian Paddick and the execrable Liz Barker.

Election 2019: Would you want to vote for a party that wouldn’t want you as a member?

For a party calling itself ‘liberal’ they seem to be a rather illiberal bunch. Spotted on Twitter – an exchange between a feminist and an anonymous representative of the party’s ‘Diversity Team’, who makes it clear a diversity of opinions is unwelcome.

Green Party gets child abuse report it paid for Bea Campbell 14.01.19

Green party failed to properly investigate child abuser – report Guardian 12.01.19

Green Party Verita Report: Safeguarding Failures in Challenor Case Conatus News 11.01.19

In England’s Green and Pleasant Land Bea Campbell 27.09.18 (Update: 03.10.18 A formal complaint has been lodged against Beatrix Campbell demanding her expulsion/suspension from the Green Party simply for writing this article.)

Debate breaks out in Green Party over gender identity and trans rights Left Foot Forward 07.09.18

Green Party figures knew Equality Spokesperson’s father had been charged with sexual offences Left Foot Forward 05.09.18

How Caroline Lucas fell foul of the transgender thought police James Kirkup 04.09.18

As an aggressive, misogynistic male-born trans person from a seriously disadvantaged background, having spent years in care and with, so far as I’m aware, no tertiary education, Aimee Challenor had a meteoric rise since joining the Green Party three years ago. In keeping with Green Party policy, Challenor campaigns for gender self-ID for transgender people with the inevitable erosion in legal protections for women that this will entail.

Sandy Mannering lampoons the Green Party leader

Challenor stood for the Green Party in both the last general election and in the Coventry City Council elections held on 3 May 2018. On 22 August 2018 at the end of an 11-day trial, David Challenor, who is Aimee’s father and chosen election agent and who already had a conviction for animal cruelty, was found guilty and sentenced to 22 years imprisonment for the torture and rape of a 10-year-old girl, in the attic of the Challoner family home.

Man held 10-year-old girl captive in ‘torture den’ attic as he played out sadomasochistic fantasies Independent

At the time of David Challoner’s conviction, Aimee was standing for the deputy leadership of the Green Party and, according to this article in the Sunday Times, initially resolved not to stand down but eventually did so and put out this personal statement.

Meanwhile, the Green Party had put out a statement claiming they knew nothing of the allegations against their member and pledging to support Aimee Challenor in “her” hour of need. This was replaced within hours with a second Green Party statement saying Aimee was resigning from the Deputy Leadership race.

After an abysmal Guardian article by party leader, Caroline Lucas, which revealed her utter failure to understand the errors made by her party, Aimee was finally “suspended on a no-fault basis” pending an investigation nine days after the news of David Challenor’s conviction had broken.

Here is the latest statement: Green Party announces details of independent investigation

Videos:

On the Challenors. Lisa Muggeridge

Why it matters that Aimee Challenor is trans. Lisa Muggeridge

Power, Accountability and The Green Party Miranda Yardley

On 4th September 2018, after Caroline Lucas publicly announced that she was arranging to meet representatives from A Woman’s Place UK, Challoner announced on Twitter that he was resigning from the Green Party.

Quite apart from all that the Green Party is earning a terrible reputation among feminists, not least because of the notorious use of the term ‘non-men’.

Read:  An open letter to the Green Party from Womens Voices Matter

An awesome feminist and former electoral candidate for the Green Party, Olivia Palmer, was expelled from the party for standing up for women. See her blog Perspicats for several good articles, including the following:

The Genderquake debate fiasco and the McCarthyism that followed

Green Party must accept failings in its dealings with David Challenor

There there’s….

No Country for ‘Non-Men’: How The Green Party is Trying to Oust an Elected Labour LGBT Officer  Miranda Yardley April 2018

Another expulsion from the Green Party

See also from Green people:

Newly elected Green councillor says it is “scientifically impossible for a man to become a woman” JUS News 03.05.19

Dawn Furness speaking at A Woman’s Place is Standing her Ground:  Newcastle upon Tyne 24th May 2018

TRANS/formations Beatrix Campbell

Gender is not an identity, it is a tool of patriarchy: a feminist view of gender-identity politics Gender Critical Greens

Sinn Fein

Plaid Cymru

The current leader, Leanne Wood, is another kool-aid drinker who wrote this rubbish article illustrating her total failure –  whether due to unwillingness or inability is unclear – to engage with the issues. There are some great responses though.

Plaid Cymru admits unlawful discrimination against feminist charity Nation Cymru 20.09.24

Adam Price responds after candidate quits over transphobia The National 06.03.21

“The Left”

The Left’s great gender lie is unravelling Jo Bartosch in The Telegraph 03.06.24

Bad faith actors: the black hole in the left’s coverage of trans rights Tim Davies in Uncommon Ground Media 04.10.23

‘The left has lost the ability to think’ Graham Linehan in Spiked 25.12.22

The left-wing case against identity politics Brendan O’Neill 01.04.22

Simplistic politics and online ‘cancel culture’ drive working-class people away from the left Kristina Harrison 31.01.20

Labour is betraying women… again Julie Burchill in Spiked 30.03.22

Labour is falling into the Tim Farron trap on sex and gender The Spectator 29.03.22

Women, class and gender – a Communist perspective Mary Davis Morning Star 08.03.19

The Left has forgotten what feminism looks like Julie Bindel 10.09.18

Why do we need a new women’s movement? Ruth Serwotka Morning Star 08.03.18

The gender debate is dividing the left. We mustn’t forget that our unity is our strength Trish Lavelle Morning Star 03.03.18

Squashing Trans Rights Activism Lisa Muggeridge

The Women’s Equality Party – RIP

26.10.24 I’m delighted at the news that this useless excuse for a party is to fold. I’ll leave everything below for posterity.

Women’s Equality party founders urge members to call time after 10 years | Women’s Equality party | The Guardian media 26.10.24

 

The WEP introduces itself on its website to, as “a new collaborative force in British politics uniting people of all genders, ages, backgrounds, ethnicities, beliefs and experiences in the shared determination to see women enjoy the same rights and opportunities as men – so that all can flourish.” Enough already! Their website could just as easily be called Peak Liberal Feminism – assuming the diabolical Everyday Feminism site hasn’t already claimed the title.

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Frankly, I would have forgotten all about the WEP, were it not for their horrendous treatment of Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans who was Party’s spokeswoman on violence against women and girls and who has now resigned from the WEP altogether.

In November 2017, as a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze programme, Heather committed the heinous crime of criticising transgender doctrine as applied to children, while defending the right of transgender adults to define themselves however they want. This staggeringly sensible viewpoint drew three complaints from transgender members of the WEP, who accused her “promoting prejudice against the transgender community”. It also earned her a ‘no-platforming’ from medical students at King’s College London, whose Reproductive and Sexual Health Society cancelled a talk they’ve invited her to give on the subject of pornography and the sexualisation of young women. Heather is a research fellow at King’s.

After an “investigation” by the WEP, it was recommended that Heather should not continue in her role as a spokeswoman for the Party and she promptly resigned her membership.

Heather’s Public Statement to the WEP when first suspended

Statement In Support Of Heather Brunskell-Evans on Transgender Trend website

Barred academic Heather Brunskell-Evans warns of cowardice over trans issues Times  23.11.17

Any other stories about the WEP

Ordinary women are rejecting an elite feminism that cannot even define them The Telegraph 02.12.22

Women who can’t define a woman are sunk Janice Turner in The Times 02.12.22

The WEP continues to betray its members Glinner 08.09.21

The Big Lie: The Women’s Equality Party wasn’t captured by gender ideology – it was founded on gender ideology Jane Doe 23.10.20

Women’s Equality Party runs consultation on self-identification for trans people Guardian 17.09.20