Given both Charlotte & Jolyon’s predisposition to self promotion what is it they want from WEP?
With all the best will in the world Mandu herself would not pretend to be a VAWG expert.
But she has restructured the Party to give disproportionate power to a small handful..
.. and three paid appointed deputies, so how long will it be until Proudman or Jolyon are sitting pretty at the top of our Party?
And it’s not a shocking concept. Jamie Wallis, a previous pimp with a claimed trans identity (that appeared at the same moment he required a defence for a hit and run drink driving incident) is now sitting on WESC….
Mandu’s failure to facilitate robust evidence based discussions means we are in the laughable position that the Party thinks we can have self ID & protect single-sex spaces.
A fact the UN VAWG rapporteur pointed out in her letter to Nicola Sturgeon last week.
@ManduReid's leadership has will sadly become knownfor dismissing expertise & the majority view of Party members on self ID.
The Party's assembly was clear in its support of single-sex spaces, yet #wep#groundhogday brings back the same tired motion that was rejected previously
Whew! This is Sarah taking over the tweets from our wonderful A. She has done a grand job launching #RespectMySex and speaking to @WEP_UK candidates. Unfortunately, this has also filled our mentions with some grim content... (1/7)
I just want to say thank you to all our feminist sisters slogging it out here in Twitter, it's not always an easy place to be. Nobody wants to be dealing with porn-soaked replies about sex toys whilst making the kids' lunch... (2/7)
Many of us are #VAWG survivors, of course, and being political and opinionated whilst being female is often enough reason to be targeted by rank misogyny. Sometimes even from other women... (3/7)