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Now there are lots of Tory MPs who are raging at this

So a small thread
You can go for the "both sides" approach

Your reminder Sir Keir Starmer was DPP 2008 - 2013

It is now 2021

It's a good thing Keir Starmer never said
See also:

"Do you understand that victims of child sexual abuse, survivors of child sexual abuse will hear you use the word 'spaffed' - which means 'ejaculated', prime minister,"

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Imagine

As a party

Having a man as leader who has to get into an argument as to the definition of spaffing
The Sun - September 2020

"55,130 allegations of rape were recorded by police in a year, they only referred 2,747 cases to the CPS - a reduction of 40 per cent in three years."

thesun.co.uk/news/12495452/…
Independent - October 2019

"Authorities have been accused of “decriminalising” sex attacks after official statistics showed that the proportion of reported rapes prosecuted in England and Wales has fallen to 1.4 per cent."

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
"We fear that the effective decriminalisation of rape is being ignored, and that in actual fact this figure will continue to drop,” End Violence Against Women Coalition campaigns manager Rebecca Hitchen told The Independent.
Guardian - July 2020

Victims’ commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC

Endorsing criticisms raised by campaigners against sexual violence “In effect, what we are witnessing is the decriminalisation of rape. "

theguardian.com/society/2020/j…
BBC - 15/3/2021

"year to the end of March 2020, 58,856 cases of rape were recorded by police forces in England and Wales. These led to just 2,102 prosecutions, compared with 3,043 in the previous 12 months."

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-480951…
Express - July 2020

"Prosecutions had fallen to 2,102 from 3,034 in 2018-2019, while the number of charges had risen slightly, by 109 to 1,867. The number of rape cases referred by police fell almost 20 percent from 3,375 to 2,747"

express.co.uk/news/uk/131687…
And here's London

Yes - with that Mayor Sadiq Khan that Tories do so love to demonise

I can't imagine what it is about Sadiq they seek to capitalise on, his skin colour, his faith?

london.gov.uk/sites/default/…
So anyway let's go back to the sound of glass breaking and screams of get off me

news.sky.com/story/police-i…
Here is the Defence Secretary in a tweet he later deleted
Here's a reminder of the social media guidance for MPs
Oh and also here is @dominicraab

I would so like to know from Dominic and Ben

Where the line is at when they would phone the police on a neighbour

Just remember

To call the police "effectively"

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Anyway

Let's go back to a decade of Tory rule

Here's a thread on Theresa May and her cuts to domestic abuse services

And well

Here's a reminder of the effects of a decade of Tory austerity

As we face the blessed bounty of the "People's Government"

Every time a government is "levelling up"

Ask them from whom and what

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