Labour women
Labour shenanigans tonight:
It’s my Labour CLP tonight. I’ve registered twice. Asked to speak as Women’s Officer. They haven’t sent me a link. They have ignored my request. Shame on you for keeping an officer out of a CLP meeting @ShefHallamLab
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) September 23, 2021
So here I am unable to attend my own CLP meeting for which I have registered 3 times. The leaders know. They still aren’t admitting me so 5 mins in I’ll put what I would have said here. As a Women’s Officer @ShefHallamLab and @LabourSheffield @Keir_Starmer … I feel we must …
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) September 23, 2021
Single sex services for women under the Equality Act 2010 which was guaranteed under the @UKLabour manifesto. Labour both nationally and locally seem to be ignoring the views of women and simultaneously being silent about the abuse of those women.
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) September 23, 2021
They let me in eventually. Won’t let me speak. I’ll complain formally
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) September 23, 2021
I was eventually admitted but not allowed to speak when the topic I joined in was specifically about single sex space and the equality act. Surely a women’s officer should have been afforded a voice?
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) September 23, 2021
I certainly will Rosie and thank you.
— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) September 23, 2021
Since we’re talking about Jean and I happened to have it open in a tab (along with virtually every other page on the web, by the looks of it), here she is on GB News talking about whether the Mayor of London “went too far” in saying that violence against women and girls is an “epidemic”.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1441080302013583362/vid/1280×720/DAbv9mIMqs94hm-f.mp4?tag=14
I don’t want to sound like a fan club, but Jean was also just in a webinar with Emma Nicolson, Helen Joyce, Posie Parker, Graham Linehan, Sonia Appleby, Jacky Doyle-Price and some Bishop I didn’t recognise.
I think the plan is to put up the video here, when it’s fangled: https://childrenandwomenfirst.org/public-meetings
It’s worth a watch. It’s part of a series, by the way, all accessible via that link. I don’t agree with Nicholson on much, but she is hell bent on addressing the issues of women’s spaces and language and what have you from her seat in the House of Lords and seems to be one of the few politicians working hard to do it.