@ijclark.com found myself thinking about you today. I hope you’re doing ok ❤️

Hey independent - he literally stood on stage and did a nazi salute, I think you’d win in court if you just called him racist

So fucking tired of these Westminster bubble cisgender politicians Streeting also tried to hide the actual deaths of the young Trans+ people he and his extreme anti-trans policies are responsible for, Jeremy How about, just for a change, you mention that too

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

Nobody wants her. She's irrelevant.

Why must a conversion therapy ban be a) "balanced" and b) "Targeted"? a) Is there a "balance" between torturing people and not torturing them...? b) Conversion therapy is torture and it doesn't matter who its victims are, it should be banned for everyone.

Begging that at least one Labour mp comprehends this (unlikely)

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

God this is like the most 90s look ever

Sigh. Why is Labour determined to sell out our streets?

As everyone is talking about Labour MP Wes Streeting, a reminder he thinks people cycling only need protecting for 2 hours a day (Mon-Fri). With magic bollards. And if you're a weekend visitor to London, none at all. And insurance, obvs. www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/2019/08...

Working with THE Katherine “K. A.” Applegate is everything I wanted when was thirteen and trying to get Animorphs fans to join my Everworld fan page on Yahoo Groups. Working with her on Wombat Waiting is a childhood dream come true! people.com/mara-wilson-...

This is fucking mental. Protesters in the UK can now be convicted of criminal damage but be sentenced as terrorists despite never having been convicted of a terror offence and without the jury knowing anything about it. Just a un unbelievable abuse of power by Justice Johnson.

That is a chart topping artist you are besmirching...

My favorite thing about Mr. Blobby is how whenever Americans find out about him they take psychic damage

The UK is plummeting down European rankings on LGBTQ+ rights. It was 1st in ILGA rankings in 2015, it is now ranked 22nd out of 49 countries. The UK is performing particularly badly in legal gender recognition, intersex rights and its treatment of LGBTQ+ people seeking protection in the UK. [1/n]

You know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They're rolling the pitch for a Reform government, and they wont just be against people that don't like genocide.

it is safe and guilt-free to watch Father Ted. He doesn’t get a penny

Well, the left hate him because he's the figurehead of a multi-year effort to excise them from democratic representation, the right hate him because they think he's a Muslim communist and everyone else was pretty disengaged already and he ran on change then didn't change much. That about cover it?

Bet his mum doesn't even like him

Nobody on BBC News chatting endlessly about Streeting is mentioning either Mandelson or evangelical Christianity

This is exactly the same as why you shouldn't let Nazis into your punk bar, btw. If we let fascist gays into the pride parade, it makes it a fascist pride parade.

One thing I truly believe is that no one in the LGBT community should let Wes Streeting get away with saying he's the "first out gay prime minister" because we do not claim him.

The UK was number one in Europe for LGBTQIA+ rights. Now look at us. Labour and the Conservatives have both failed this community completely. Wes Streeting is a gay man who removed transgender healthcare.

I'll give him this, leaking it 10 mins before the King's Speech is very funny.

FUCK OFF WESLEY

As the second parliamentary session of Sir Keir Starmer's premiership gets under way, one Labour MP shouts "not now Andy". Three backbenchers tell me the heckler was Torcuil Crichton.

me in 2015 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister vs me in 2026 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister

I mean I’m in favour of Wes Streeting resigning the health post given he’s actively harming a group of people by holding it, but I’m just trans so what do I know

"Universities across England face ‘real risk’ of closure due to insolvency for first time"

Streeting (pictured left) appears about to resign.

Amazing

Gender affirming care is of a similar vintage, yet it's still decried and restricted because it's "new and experimental", could you imagine what the world would be like if penicillin had been treated the same way?

Wes Streeting is an extremist. This is like the Home Secretary meeting with the BNP, Britain First, Patriotic Alternative, Eugenicists for a White Christ, and whatever else “to discuss citizenship issues” He should be nowhere near power.

It’s very funny how many people are having an extremely similar kneejerk reaction to the title of the article to the one its author had to the title of the book it’s about

Paramedics are just dying in proximity to Israel bombs again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If Labour had just put people in place that liked trans people, none of this would be happening. It's not that trans people are powerful, it's that people who hate trans people tend to hate loads of others as well, and prefer making things worse than doing anything to help.

If I were a Labour MP, I'd tell Streeting I was planning to back him so he'd think he had 81 and then I'd simply not do it so he'd fall flat on his stupid fucking face

Apparently he has a tribute act in the Commons

Sky News reporting a Labour MP shouting out, when Black Rod knocked on the door: "NOT NOW, ANDY!" #KingsSpeech

Think some of you are starting to do the Corbyn thing again with Polanski (making an individual the sole paragon for progressive politics despite flaws and dismissing or getting defensive over repeated instances of questionable character or judgement that you wouldn't accept from other politicians)

"In an unprecedented move in a criminal damage case, the judge, Mr Justice Johnson, ruled before the first trial that there appeared to be a 'terrorist connection' to the offences – even though the protest took place before Palestine Action was proscribed – but this could not be told to the jury."

remember when jess phillips spread a transphobic conspiracy theory that a trans woman committed a horrific murder, when in fact it had been a cis woman who was responsible, and phillips never even acknowledged the error, let alone apologised for it?

The central reason that trust in health professionals dropped during covid is that the president intentionally and explicitly used doctors as scapegoats for the economic damage the pandemic caused. What irritated overly online center-right pundits is a smaller factor.

The trick to successful personality politics is in constantly giving up the spotlight, while remaining present. Mamdani uses "I" precisely twice in this entire video. He uses "we" or "our" 22 times. He mentions multiple other politicians by name, giving them credit. This is mastery of the form.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Keep going lads. Every update means another front bencher will lose their seat at the next GE

We used to be first. That’s why people’s vibe is still “this was a good place to be yourself”. Then we had 10 years of attacks on human rights, total institutional failure and a roll back of rights… …including the claim we never had human rights protection in the first place.

There’s a chance that Wes Streeting comes out of the current mess as Prime Minister. The same Wes Streeting who caused and tried to cover up this absolute scandal. This rating is generous now but people are rightly scared it’s going to get worse. bsky.app/profile/thea...

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.