Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid.

Brunswick, Hove.
Joined November 2008
Wrote to my MP. "If the Labour Party and Government will not fight the corner of working class women - what is it for?"
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As a member of @bhlabour I want to say clearly that I think Steve is wrong. Being 'trans positive' is pretty meaningless, but the argument about sex and gender is not 'merely a political football'. Some of the local issues are: 1) The scandal of WellBN - harming teenagers in the city - but supported by the City Council. 2) The absence of same sex (women only) provision for victims of rape and sexual violence. 3) Implementation of the law, following the EHRC guidance including within council facilities 4) Female only sport in the city's schools: council policy deprives girls of the right to fair sport 5) Internally and procedurally, the undemocratic hostility shown to Cllrs Thompson and Gauge who raised criticism of the labour group's stance and were sidelined and ignored. 6) The likely illegal 'trans tool kit' which has been abandoned by many other councils. 7) Plans for mixed changing - a changing village - in the replacement for the King Alfred Centre, contrary to best practice and legal precedent. These are concrete, serious issues with which the Council will have to grapple. You can't close them off with meaningless declarations of solidarity. I am disturbed by the lack of honesty and accountability in party circles about these matters. In raising these concerns I am largely motivated by concerns for the Labour administration, which I otherwise support. We have lost all three councillors in Queens Park, and, even though peopel are whistling to keep our spiritis up, I'm not confident about the result of the byelection. A failure to think through policy, and to have open and honest discussion of these matters is deeply damaging. The background for the byelection is here: pshebrighton.org/in-the-news…
Steve stands with the trans community🏳️‍⚧️ #Queenspark #Votelabour #Queensparklabour
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The "hugely significant moment", if there must be one, is a First Minister blatantly misrepresenting a quote by omitting the end, like some sort of third-rate troll. He's doing this in plain sight, as what Marra says ("...and they did so in 2014") is in the video Swinney links to
This is a hugely significant moment. For the first time since 2014, Scottish Labour accept Scotland’s right to decide our own future, just as the Prime Minister has. We now need to turn that principle into an opportunity for people to make their voice heard.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Michael Marra told STV: "I believe that the people of Scotland have the right to decide their future, and they did so in 2014." He added that in 1997 they gave an unequivocal answer on both occasions. news.stv.tv/politics/micha… thenational.scot/news/26569650.…
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This is not a culture war. It is a reality war. There are those of us who know that sex is real and an important category that sometimes needs to be recognised to protect people on the basis of sex. And there are those who believe that identifying as a gender should allow someone to override the boundaries and rights of people of the opposite sex. In practice, this particularly affects women: their privacy, dignity, boundaries and safeguards. You cannot make women’s single-sex spaces inclusive of males and simultaneously claim they remain single-sex. It is unfair that women have to keep fighting for boundaries and protections that already exist in law. And we believe it is also unfair to transgender people to keep promising that the answer is simply to change the law so that those boundaries disappear. The law should not be changed to achieve that. What is needed is truthfulness and respect: people can identify as they wish, but we need to be honest about the limitations of gender identity when it comes to other people’s sex-based rights, boundaries and single-sex spaces. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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We have written to the @SP_Equalities committee, following incorrect assertions made by the director of Engender about CEDAW at the meeting last Thursday.
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A shame @EdwardJDavey didn't take the opportunity to explain what the @LibDems think is unclear, unworkable or unlawful about the EHRC Code of Practice Much factual inaccuracy in the motion, incl the idea that the CoP "bars" anyone from anywhere. That's the law, Ed, not the CoP.
Absolute incoherence from Ed Davey:
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Latest piece. The Ukrainians just launched arguably their largest and most complex raid on Moscow. 1000+ units, 450 or so aimed at the Russian capital. It revealed a great deal about where things are now in the ranged war, but arguably even more about where things are heading.
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Protecting the rights of women and girls is not an attack on trans people. Propagandising suicides runs contrary to every tenet of suicide prevention. There is no low to which serial failed litigant Jolyon Maugham will not stoop in his endless quest for donations and publicity.
How the Supreme Court tipped Anna over the edge Billionaires like JK Rowling have funded a blizzard of legal attacks on the trans community – and her allies in the rightwing and far-right press have pursued a campaign of trans hate goodlawproject.org/jo-maugha…
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What a difference 7 years makes….
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My solicitors made an open offer to Jolyon Maugham on 28 August. He rejected it and the offer is now withdrawn. I hope to see some of you in court!
An open offer to settle to Jolyon Maugham, by sarahphillimore.substack.com…
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Replying to @VelvetLandmine
A Brief History of the Transcult: Once upon a turn of the century, Transcult took over transgenderism, hijacked it from heels to wig. It was the Great Troon Robbery of 1999 (or thereabouts) Which is to say middle-aged, porn-addicted, cross-dressing straight men became the new boss, not at all the same as the old boss. They discovered their gold ticket into women's sports, spaces and private lives. I'm a gay dude. I was there for all of this but it took me quite a while to see, others were quicker to recognize the heist. I noticed first about fifteen years ago that the black/hispanic trans femmes were all of a sudden being swamped by 40 year old white male engineers in pants suits who'd left wives and families to go "trans". The engineers were followed by the military guys then the lawyers then the academics... And then the flood from every profession. They possessed about 5% of the fashion sense of femme trans. Then they all started showing up in key positions at all the gay orgs. Femme queens got trash heaped. Total world domination followed in short order. And all the libs on every continent bought into the fraud. Things were going great for transcult until they way over reached and decided that kids were the new, endlessly growing and churning market for their fetish. Castrated gay boys and mastectomied lesbian tweens? Yeah that's the ticket. Oops. So the collapse was coming. Musk bought Twitter in October 2022. And for the first time there was ONE platform that allowed criticism of transcult. The only way they could succeed was with no criticism tolerated anywhere at any time. Total control of the reality studios. When they lost that, the jig was up. The unwinding had begun. Still years to go but inevitable now. The End
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The commons has undermined the will of the commons by voting in the commons.
Assisted Dying: Same bill, same parliament. The different result was not on principle but a procedural issue caused by a tiny number of unelected peers who think themselves more important than the rest of us - elected or not. So self-reverent any means are justified to them. 1/4
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Canada will never forget.
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MPs thinking for themselves! Will it catch on?
BREAKING: MPs have voted AGAINST the assisted dying bill by 286 votes to 270 That's a huge, huge moment It effectively ends the chance of assisted dying becoming law before 2030
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An incredible speech - expertly crafted, brilliantly controlled, spoken from the heart and painful experience, selfless and totally compelling. Here's hoping MPs listen.
Very powerful speech from @AshleyDalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and opposes the assisted dying bill. "I have been terrorised with tales of people vomiting up their own faeces...it is nothing short of irresponsible to scaremonger people like me into believing our deaths will be horrific when with good access to palliative care most deaths are gentle."
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I very much regret this decision by the High Court. The ball is firmly in the Parliament of #Australia’s court to correct this historic injustice and affront to the rights of women and girls.
Today the High Court 👨‍⚖️ refused Sall Grover special leave to appeal Giggle for Girls v Tickle. The legal fight is over. 😤 Parliament must now act. ‼️ Giggle was a women only app. @salltweets built it so women could have a female only online space. As the law now stands, a woman can be punished in court for running a female only service without the inclusion of men who identify as women. The courts applied the Gillard government 2013 amendments. They did not invent them. Only Parliament can restore the right of women and girls to single sex spaces, services and sport. @SenKatyG @MGrahMcIntosh WRNA stands with Sall Grover. 💪💜 We call on every MP and Senator to amend the Sex Discrimination Act and put sex based rights back into Australian law.
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This feature of me is going viral on twitter. I am a proud Gay man from Brighton who loves and adores history and believes in equal rights for all regardless of colour, creed or gender. We live for such a short time on this blue marble, so be kind and release the files 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸
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It's odd, isn't it? I don't believe that women should be forced to segregated from men in public, yet @stellacreasy is fine with it. I do believe they should have the right to be segregated when they're undressing, but Creasy doesn't.
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If you want to see who a man really is, tell him ‘no’.
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Apart from the astonishing parochialism of this speaker - this is an issue around the world and has been the subject of contention for years - @gregolear exhibits a phenomenon that I'm coming across frequently: (thread) ...
Greg Olear and Stephanie Koff expose the reality behind the WNBA protests. Are these grassroots movements or just calculated astroturfing? Watch to find out. #WNBA #Astroturfing #TheFive8 #SportsPolitics #TransRights #PoliticalCommentary #FakeOutrage #MediaLiteracy
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