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The relief at getting a woman and her children or just her, into a place of safety to give her refuge stays with me long after the event. Women need to be safe at all times. That's why Women's refuges need to be women and children only zones. Safety is the primary consideration.
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🚨Two Labour MPs are being investigated after failing to declare an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel on time.
Peter Prinsley and Cat Eccles joined a “solidarity” trip funded by Labour Friends of Israel in May, when they met Israeli president Isaac Herzog.
declassifieduk.org/labour-po…
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A friend is a voluntary inpatient in a mental health ward. Last night, as she slept, a male involuntary inpatient tried to get in to bed with her. Staff defended him as “a victim of family violence” when she said she felt violated. She is reporting the incident and their lack of safeguarding but doubts anything will happen. Mixed sex mental health wards are terrible for vulnerable women. I know for sure incidents like this, and also grooming and sexual assaults, are being covered up in public mental health units. Who decided to make all public mental health wards mixed sex? What consultation process was there? Where do female victims of male sexual violence, who viscerally can’t be around men, go?
@IngridStitt
@EmmaKealyMP
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Everyone else should note this. Its not appropriate to take advice from organisations that have been misrepresenting the law for years, and still are.
Thankfully, there was a good outcome here: the Church of Scotland said “We do not consider that it is appropriate for the church to rely on advice provided by Stonewall and the Good Law Project and we should not have referred to their views"
thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has delivered its starkest warning yet to the Scottish Government, urging ministers to stop delaying and begin updating policies to reflect the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the definition of women.
heraldscotland.com/news/2527…
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A paedophile who led a Rochdale rape gang, who abused 47 girls, some as young as 12, has built a property in his native Pakistan while claiming £285,000 in taxpayer-funded legal aid to fight deportation from Britain
His name is Qari Rauf. He is a takeaway driver in Rochdale
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All Starmer could say today in defence of his cuts to #DisabilityBenefits is that the current system "traps people" on benefits. Yet again implying that PIP is an out of work benefit when in fact PIP enables many people to work.
Such dishonesty-and his MPs are seeing through him.
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If you’re going to ban peaceful protest, protesters have absolutely no reason to stay peaceful.
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While it's good that MPs are speaking up now with this amendment against Disability Benefit Cuts.
We must still keep going with getting the petition to 100,000 signatures.
#TakingThePIP
#DisabilityRebellion
#StopTheCuts
#WelfareNotWarfare
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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It’s great to see so many MPs supporting an amendment that would prevent cuts to welfare, including 9 who received support from UNISON.
However 53 UNISON-backed MPs have not. Our GS and Labour Link must be clear that they must support the amendment and vote against cuts.
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It means people will end their lives under the guise of "choice", while denied the care that could have given the hope, comfort & meaning they needed to want to live.
Choice is only free when there are genuine alternatives to choose from.
Otherwise, it's a libertarian charade.
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Every word true.
John McDonnell accused Keir Starmer’s govt of “callousness and political incompetence”, criticising its hesitance in abolishing the two-child limit on benefits, and what he calls a “brutal launch of an attack on benefits of disabled people”theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Labour cancels Women’s Conference because ugly blokes in dresses can’t be allowed to attend.
This is the time to be alive
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Here's our first response to decisions we understand were taken today by @UKLabour's Nat Exec Committee.
In summary
♀️Bringing party policies in line with the 2010 Equality Act & correct definition of woman = at last!
😡Cancelling women's conference = ridiculous & unnecessary.
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As @UKLabour cancels its women’s conference rather than have to comply with the actual LAW and keep the men OUT, we have a message for them 👇
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There is a @BBCRadio4 show called @BBCWomansHour where the hosts have decided to pretend men can, somehow, be women.
Proving that women can’t even have ONE HOUR without men barging in and wrecking the place.
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I can’t stop thinking about Karen, the Darlington nurse. They put the man she’s in a legal dispute with on the surgical team to perform her hysterectomy. It’s unconscionable. And impossible to see in any other way than a punishment for her, when she’s at her most vulnerable.
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NFU also notes that two aspects of the deal have involved major compromise for U.K. farmers and warns that this cannot continue. Once again govt is on precarious ground with farming community.
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"We will one day view “gender-affirming care” in minors with the same revulsion that we now view frontal lobotomies. Until then, many children will continue to suffer tragic—and irreversible—consequences."
city-journal.org/article/gen…
