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Nice to see the local Groucho Marx Appreciation Society showing off their Buy One Get One Free silicone implants for the world's meeja at Holyrood yesterday.
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I would go further. This bill will tear families apart and it will cast the shadow of criminal law across every kitchen table where a distressed teenager is having difficult conversions with mum and dad. This isn’t gay rights. This is tyranny.
Dennis , Helen and Dermot packed a lot into the time they were given, highlighting just how dangerous and badly thought through this bill is. It will harm children and families.
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The conversion bill is a trojan horse to sneak contested identity concepts into law. These efforts have failed on multiple occasions in the civil division and this bill is an attempt to rerun those arguments on pain of criminal prosecution.
@VictoriaPrentis asks the panel – @Jebadoo2 (@MensNetwork1), @HJoyceGender (Sex Matters) and Dermot Kehoe (@AllianceLGB) – about how the bill defines conversion practices and how far the term reaches.
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“We could amend this Bill here, there and everywhere, carve out this, tweak that, but at the end of the day the government would still be passing a Bill that says there’s one area, and one area only, of medical practice where you could get prosecuted if you put a foot wrong. That won’t be a chilling effect, that’ll be a deep freeze” Magnificent from @Jebadoo2 #BinTheBill
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Amen.
I would go further. This bill will tear families apart and it will cast the shadow of criminal law across every kitchen table where a distressed teenager is having difficult conversions with mum and dad. This isn’t gay rights. This is tyranny.
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This from Dennis is particularly brilliant. He was asked a leading question about how much conversion therapy is out there, and he turned it incredibly effectively to the post-modern "conversion therapy" that is gender medicine. There is definitely a lot of "reparative therapy" out there - and it's done by the gender clinicians who put gay teenagers on the path to chemical and/or physical castration. The framing the question suggested was that this bill is addressing a serious, existing harm, albeit perhaps the bill needs some safeguards to stop overreach. Dennis moved back onto his own framing, showing that there is a genuine, serious problem with conversion therapy, but it's not where the panel committee think it is, and this bill will make it worse.
The Conversion Practices bill “makes it a crime to say to your teenaged daughter: I want you to love your body, I want you to grow up to be a happy lesbian. I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU ARE A MAN!” 💔 @Jebadoo2
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The Conversion Bill makes it a crime to say "I want you to grow up to be a happy lesbian, I don't believe you were born in the wrong body" This is crazy.
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Been quite the day. Grateful to Parliament for letting us speak and to Helen and Dermot for being such effective advocates. This bill is dangerous and it will criminalise innocent parents. It cannot be amended into civility. It must be defeated.
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Here's a nuclear shelter I made out of old toilet rolls and sticky backed plastic.
Our MPs have turned into Blue Peter presenters.
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Deep down they all know the truth.
Israeli actress Chelli Goldenberg said she is no longer proud to be Israeli during a live interview. After discovering the conversation was broadcast live, she expressed shock and later apologized for her remarks.
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Most corrupt country in the world Part 1,867
I wonder where all the back handers are going.
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I want you all to know this. There are 650 MPs in Parliament. Yet the one MP chosen by @UKLabour to Chair the Bill Committee for the controversial, dangerous and dismally bad draft legislation, the Conversion Practices Bill, is Alex Barros-Curtis. Until July 2024, when Alex was given a very safe Labour seat in Cardiff, he was the Head of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in London. This was a department set up to investigate complaints against members of the Labour Party. Complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia, abuse, and of course latterly, mostly women holding legally-protected 'Gender Critical' (sex realist) beliefs. Alex oversaw the investigation of hundreds of members who liked or tweeted gender critical or feminist views. I was one of them. He investigated me, as a sitting Labour MP, for 13 months. 13 months to 'investigate' one like of one tweet. I had a great lawyer, one of the names we're all now familiar with, and I had to crowdfund to pay for his (excellent) work. They first tried in 2020. But the screenshots crudely attached to that passive aggressive, threatening-sounding email from LP admin staff were so risible that I replied that it was too ridiculous for me to waste my precious time on. They left it. Years of Starmer bumbling and stuttering through interviews about whether he had spoken to me, whether he supported me, etc followed. My feminist sins continued apace. And then I 'liked' a tweet by my GC comedian friend @Glinner. He had mocked Eddie'Suzy' for comparing his choice to wear traditional women's clothing, fake plastic breasts and nails, to those being persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. I found his sarcasm, as a award-winning comedy writer in the face of such offensive narcissism amusing and so 'liked' it. I found it absurd and obscene that Izzard, an extremely privileged and wealthy man, who openly changed his 'gender' at will, should write himself into history falseley as someone who would have been oppressed due to a circumstance beyond his control. We all know the groups who were tortured, starved and killed... There is obviously more to my story, I will tell it all, it's just one chapter of the years of spiteful abusive and bullying practices meted out to me by the Labour Party managers. Not those who'd achieved office on merit, or even unexpectedly, but those in the club, often having failed to be elected themselves. So Barros-Curtis who we were repeatedly told led 'the many *independent* inquiries into women members and MPs like me, now often stands as a trans-rights activist on the Labour backbenches. He has also been gifted the role of Chair of this Committee and is a huge supporter of this Bill. And I am not a part of the Bill Committee, although plenty of TRA MPs are. Does that sound like the democratic scrutiny of legislation to you?
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You don't think that had anything to do with shagging the editor, do you?
Who says the @Record_Politics were working behind the scenes to promote Labour's Joani Reid.
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When did Ukraine become part of the United Kingdom? This is the U.K. budget, right?
🚨 NEW: John Healey has announced Ukraine will receive £10bn in additional economic and military support "We called him this morning... he told us we made his day" #Budget
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Meaningless buzz phrases always.
Breathing space for today, fresh hope for the future.
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Do tell us, Ed, how bombs and guns help the carbon footprint according to your #NetZero scam.
Today we’re announcing a new £10bn package of support for Ukraine. This funding will help Ukraine meet its immediate needs, support economic resilience, and help defend its sovereignty from Russia’s illegal invasion. We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.
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Epstein and his pedo friends were welcomed with open arms in the Royal circle!! They hosted several parties for him & brought him in young girls from Europe for him to enjoy! But please continue vilifying Meghan for cutting off her father who’s an alleged pedophile🤦🏾‍♀️
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Whose Swiss bank account should we pay it into?😉
Today, the UK government announced the allocation of an additional £10 billion in aid to Ukraine. This British assistance does not simply help Ukraine continue its fight. It is an impulse of resilience at a time when the enemy is trying to force Ukraine to capitulate through terror against peaceful cities. This is support that truly saves Ukrainian lives. I am grateful to Prime Minister @andyburnham , His Majesty's Government and all the people of the United Kingdom for their principled stance and concrete actions within the framework of our strategic partnership. Thank you for standing alongside Ukraine in the fight for freedom, security and a just peace🇬🇧🇺🇦
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I see Labour are trying hard to convince people they are doing anyone a good turn with their budget. They think you are stupid.
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When is the budget for the U.K. being delivered as the Chancellor delivered a budget for Ukraine today?
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