Thread by @LucyHunterB

The Lib Dems have just won a council by-election in Edinburgh.

The party of Ben "Toxicity" Maguire, Alex "Standing Ovation" Cole-Hamilton, Christine Jardine, Sheila Ritchie and so many other allies would want voters to know how important self-ID is to them, wouldn't it?

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Someone who lives in the ward has kindly been collecting all the election leaflets she got through the door for this election.

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The Lib Dem Group recently helped pass a motion putting pressure on Edinburgh Women's Aid, after SWA made clear that trans-identifying men could only access those of its services which don't involve direct contact with women survivors using them. 3/n
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So it would be timely and relevant to say something to local voters about how much it believes in self-ID, wouldn't it? 4/n

And the Lib Dems did do several household drops. 5/n

So there were a few chances for the party to use this opportunity to promote its position on self-ID to local voters, and do its bit to challenge the (as many of elected representatives would say) "toxic debate". 6/n

And with the Supreme Court decision so much in the news, voters might have been more interested in this issue than ever? Maybe in relation to what the Lib Dems think this should mean in schools, as a key local service? 7/n

But I think a whole bunch of "fascist" (as Mr Maguire put it, before deleting) women activists must have infiltrated Lib Dem leaflet production in Edinburgh, literally erasing the party's passionately-felt position about self-ID from its election literature. 8/n

The party must know how much its voters want to hear how important this issue is to them. Time for @scotlibdems to act! 9/n

Otherwise this terrible act of sabotage and erasure of party policy may be repeated in future election literature.

FAO @LibVoice4Women @hollowood_zoe

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