This is an example of how not to learn a lesson.
Sir Keir Starmer suffered a shock by-election defeat in his own backyard overnight, after Labour’s campaign imploded over a trans rights row.
Labour slumped to second place in a traditionally safe council seat in Hackney, down 13.1 percent compared to their last showing.
The Tories, meanwhile, shot up to 53.8 percent of the vote, an increase of 47.4 percent, partly off the back of the collapse in the Lib Dems’ vote, which fell by 35 points to just 2.4 percent.
The local politics showdown witnessed the dramatic result largely thanks to the farce within the Labour campaign, which saw their candidate Laura Pascal suspended over a trans row.
It would appear that unlike her boss, Ms Pascal knows what a woman is.
The London regional branch of Labour suspended her last week following “a number of complaints about transphobia”.
The suspension lasted all the way up to the day of the election itself, only being lifted after she had personally apologised to anyone offended by her pro-women tweets.
Of course they did. And she should never have apologised.
Ms Pascal, who appears still committed to the Labour Party, continues to describe herself as a “feminist and unapologetic for my gender critical views”.
Right, so having had a taste of the extreme trans lobby in her own party and the power that they wield – along with their rampant misogynistic bigotry, she still wants to be involved with this toxic organisation. Some people just don’t learn.
Despite the unnecessary row, those on the left are now arguing that Labour should learn the lesson to be more in favour of transgender rights than less.
One Trans Twitter/X user argued: “Maybe Labour can learn their base aren’t going to back a bigoted candidate.”
Labour councillor Meg Birchall also called for the Labour Party to “take action” against Ms Pascal’s “transphobia”, arguing her comments breached party rules around conduct that was “grossly detrimental to the party”.
Right, so having just had a thumping from the electorate – who also know what a woman is – they are doubling down.
The left can be divided into two distinct wings – the old working man’s party who fought for better working conditions, and the loony left who will happily throw away electoral victory on the alter of political purity. In my youth, I was pretty left wing, but I had no time for these utter lunatics. Indeed, despite being a leftist, I was happier to see Margaret Thatcher’s Tories win office than let them anywhere near the levers of power. Four decades later, nothing has changed.
Anyone not left wing in their youth does not have a heart. Anyone left wing in later life dies not have a brain. Not my quote, forgot who said it, but very true.
This trans bollx needs stamping out with extreme prejudice, or we are going to get to a point where bumming becomes compulsory under fear of state retribution for non conformist.
I’m glad my children are adults now, as the state will undoubtedly leverage the threat of removal of children into state ‘care’ against parents that do not want their children groomed by deviants, otherwise known as teachers.
I see there is a row currently ongoing over the introduction of a graphic ‘sex education’ textbook aimed at eight year Olds being introduced in the UK currently.
Fucking insane.
It’s always “transphobia” – you never hear of complaints about “normalphobia”
How can she be unapologetic and apologise?
The quote is usually attributed to Churchill but it is almost certain that he did not say it, at least not publicly.
What is interesting is that the successful Tory stood for the Lib Dems up to and including 2022. Not sure if the large Hasidic community in Stamford Hill forms part of the electorate.
“Maybe Labour can learn their base aren’t going to back a bigoted candidate.”
Brilliant, I love the way that they have this completely back to front. As long as they do they aren’t going to learn from it are they?
That’s what prompted the post. They are so utterly deluded and out of touch with the electorate who will consistently reject their insanity.
Whenever I hear the word ‘bigot’ I think of that famous antibigot Gordon Brown. And his subsequent electoral success. Keep up the antibigotry guys.
He epitomised its modern usage – ‘someone who disagrees with me.’
HAA! HAA! The comrades aligned themselves with sexual extremists and it bit them in the arse. Perhaps they enjoyed that but pardon my mirth . . .
Now all we need is a viable third party.
I suspect the coming election is going to be more interesting than most pundits expect. That’s not to say the Tories aren’t going to get thumped (they certainly deserve to be), but I’m not entirely convinced that they will be, either. (It does look as though the government has squandered the recent Tory resurgence in Scotland though, with Labour being the main beneficiary of the SNP’s self-destruction. That might be what sweeps Sir Kneel to No. 10 in the end.)
“The Tories, meanwhile, put up Ian Sharer, who came runner-up in 2022 when standing as a Lib Dem.”
Oh dear. See, there’s yer problem.
I still think that it will be either no overall majority or a small Labour one.
Honestly, I’d rather see a large majority. The smaller it is, the more power it gives the SNP and LibDems. A confident Labour Party is destructive, but it’s not half as bad as one desperately holding on to power.
Maybe, but I predict something like 1974, with a series of elections until an alternative is strong enough to come to power. In that case, it was the Tories under Mrs T.
I could, of course, be entirely wrong.
Only a complete fool makes political predictions in the run up to an election – so here’s mine:
Labour win a sweeping majority, despite Reform gaining millions of votes yet gaining no seats. The Tories are reduced to <100 seats.
2029, after 5 years of lunacy, Labour win by a slim majority having expanded the operation to import their vote base, and possibly reduced the voting age.
2034 – I'd like to think the country comes to its senses and elects a sensible middle right party under a strong leadership, though by that point I'm not sure there will be anything British left to save.
BIK,
You forgot the bit, before 2030, where the first currency called the Pound, and the Ponzi scheme of Central Banking utterly collapse, just the same as literally 99% of their predecessors have, the ensuing food riots, total collapse of law and order, vigilantism, followed by a massive state-sanctioned violent reaction, prompting further extreme violence, leading to Martial Law.
Probably.
*Fiat, not first.
LR, is it possible for you to turn off autocorrect in the comments, it’s fecking annoying?
I have no access to the device you are using, so there is nothing I can do.
I understand that, my spellcheck is off, so I assumed it was something to do with the comment box itself.
Nope. It ain’t that clever.