Kevin Higgins, Galway-based poet and UK Labour Party member, upsets the party with some flagrant wrongthink.
Kevin sez:
“I will be contesting the case. I would like a copy of the ‘complaint’ against me. And I would like, indeed will be insisting on, the right to question in person this rather amusing “evidence” which all has to do with my sharing poems on social media.”
A Labour frontbencher has criticised the BBC for focusing on “identity issues” and effectively stoking a row over trans rights in the party.
In an interview on Wednesday morning shadow justice secretary David Lammy said Today programme presenter Nick Robinson was “deliberately asking me about an issue that you know does not come up on the doorstep.”
Andrew Marr (left) and UK Party Leader Kier Starmer on last Sunday’s The Andrew Marr Show on BBC 1
This afternoon.
Via Pink News:
Labour MP Emily Thornberry has expertly demonstrated how the question “do only women have a cervix” should be answered without feeding into a toxic debate.
The reductive question has become the centre of political discussion since Labour leader Keir Starmer said it’s “not right” to say only women have a cervix during an interview with Andrew Marr.
That question was put to him in relation to a tweet posted by Labour MP Rosie Duffield in August 2020, where she claimed only women have cervixes. Following Starmer’s interview, health secretary Sajid Javid wrongly suggested that Duffield’s initial statement was a “scientific fact”.
Instead of discussing any of the real issues facing trans, non-binary and intersex people – such as the ongoing healthcare crisis – journalists have instead rushed to add fuel to the fire.
Thornberry told the hosts that claiming only women have a cervix is “factually inaccurate”, adding: “There are men who have cervixes – there are men who are trans and they’re men. It’s just factually wrong.”
This nonsense needs to be stopped. I challenge Minister O Gorman to find me any women or adoptees directly affected by the scandal of the Mother And Baby Homes, that find the words “Birth Mother” offensive or not inclusive in any way! https://t.co/N1TaLU1S8g
Jeremy Corbyn responds to his suspension from the UK Labour Party provoked by a statement that he rejected the conclusions of a Equality and Human Rights Commission report into claims of anti-semitism during his time as leader.
He said the problem was “dramatically overstated for political reasons” by opponents and the media.
Members of the UK Labour Party in Dublin and supporters met at the James Connolly statue in Dublin city to call on Irish people living in the UK to vote Labour.
Brendan Howlin (out of picture).
Dan O’Neill writes:
We are here to call on Irish people living in the UK to turn out and vote Labour tomorrow.
For years now the UK has witnessed the Tories closing libraries, maternity and accident and emergency departments, mental health facilities, women’s refuges, services for people with disabilities and nurseries. And yet tax cuts keep coming for the rich.
The Conservatives have created division at every opportunity — the division that led to Brexit, and has driven a wedge between our two islands.
The Conservative Party’s reckless handling of Brexit has not just undermined the future wellbeing of the UK economy, but it has also greatly jeopardised the wellbeing of the Irish economy. Their willingness to play political games with the day-to-day lives of people on both sides of the Irish Sea is, frankly, unforgivable.
The UK Labour Party calls for a society which puts everyone first, rather than putting the interests of the wealthy above all else. One in which workers enjoy some security rather than being forced onto zero-hour contracts; one which protects the right of those at work to have their say in their workplace.
We support the UK Labour Party and urge our Irish friends living and working in the UK to do the same.
Thanks Dan
Meanwhile…
Double Down News writes:
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell takes on the mainstream media, fake news and Theresa May in this election eve rundown.
