Leaked WhatsApp messages have exposed Labour ministers’ fury, and secret plans to flout a Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces. The Mail has the story.
The Government claimed to welcome the Supreme Court judgment – but the exchanges reveal the private fury on Sir Keir Starmer’s frontbench, with ministers planning to hold a meeting this week to “decide a way forwards” and “organise”.
In the messages, sent on Thursday evening, Culture Minister Sir Chris Bryant joined an attack on Baroness Falkner, chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), who earlier that day had said that the ruling – that a woman is defined by biological sex – clearly meant trans women could not use single-sex female facilities or compete in women’s sports.
When an MP said that Lady Falkner’s words were “pretty appalling”, Mr Bryant wrote: “Agreeed [sic].”
Last night, with the Government in turmoil, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Cabinet Secretary calling for an investigation into a statement by Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson, who reacted to the judgment by saying: “We have always supported the protection of single sex spaces based on biological sex.”
In her letter to Sir Chris Wormald, who is also the Head of the Civil Service, Ms Badenoch argued that it could constitute a “false public statement” – because last June, Ms Phillipson declared that trans women with penises should be able to use single-sex spaces.
Writing on the WhatsApp group of LGBT+ Labour MPs, Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle said: “The ruling is not as catastrophic as it seems but the EHRC guidance might be and there are already signs that some public bodies are overreacting” – a possible reference to the British Transport Police’s interim announcement that strip searches of trans women would now be done by male officers, not female.
Dame Angela added that “we have to get on with doing the stuff we said we’d do in the manifesto”, which included a pledge to protect “the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity”.
Another MP on the WhatsApp group wrote that it was “sad to see some institutions choose to ignore the Supreme Court’s very strong line that trans people are protected by the Equality Act too”. Dame Angela replied: “They won’t be feeling that way now and we need to remember that and organise.”
MPs agreed with her suggestion that they should seek a meeting “ASAP with [the] relevant Equality Minister” after the Commons returns from Easter recess this week
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Clown World. A fake flying virus, a scamdemic and 2 years later fired for having a brain. Why aren’t these unstabbed officers dead? I thought pedo-criminal-Biden promised a ‘winter of unvaxxed death’.
And of course the Rona Fascism was ‘legal’ and ‘necessary’ to save WA state from the terrifying IFR of 0.03%. The courts are useless, suborned, totalitarian. Laws don’t exist. Just state opinions and control.
a Supreme Court ruling that then-WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson’s Covid vaccination directive was “valid and lawful” brought an end to the injunction in April
They will be back.
Yr point about opinions and control is right but it’s now rule of law by identity. So if yr a “far right” white male the law will be fully applied but less so if a leftist BLM/climate rioter.
Two years on and the overwhelming evidence – continuing to mount daily – confirms that the C1984 injections are beyond dangerous and were brewed, as I have stated many times, to maim, sterilise and kill. Ongoing investigations and research now confirm that not only are the C1984’s deadly so to is the mRNA platform they are built on.
The case outlined above is an absolute mockery of justice. If this wasn’t 2024 the correct descriptor would be ‘unbelievable.’
Thanks Freddy
The headline would be “murder”.
The unstabbed officers should have been promoted as they’re clearly far smarter than the average plod. Braver too, for defying a nonsense order. The Deputy Commissioner has clearly acted out of spite, along the lines of ‘I was numb enough to take the risk of the jab, why weren’t you?
Terrific
Another fabulous example of western democracy. As with anything the left will never willingly kill their sacred cow. Anyone who didn’t get the jab is a nazi just like ppl who deny the earth is boiling are also. Btw they don’t care about disease or the environment they are just useful props to achieve Marx 10 point manifesto which strangely all senior socialist operatives know by heart.
During the second World War the Nazi’s forcibly carried out health experiments on some prisoners. Draw your own conclusions as what our future holds unless we fight back.
Very Depressing , good men persecuted while people like Danazi Andrews gets an award for being a Tyrant , let’s hope they can appeal & the 50 Firemen should picket their headquarters !!
Chilling. Tyranny is now ‘valid and lawful’. even though there is proof that the untested vaccine was dangerous. Where do we go from here? Courts and judges are no longer to be trusted.
“There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice” Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755).
T’was ever thus …
And safety. Don’t forget safety.
Don’t forget Benjamin Franklin on Liberty. The Aussies with their ‘Tall Poppy’ syndrome has grown into something dark & nasty. It was a Prisoner & Prison guard country after all.
Can’t have police not agreeing with everything the system says and does, now can we? Imagine the chaos that would cause! He should be burned at the stake!
Our own Junior doctors need to wake up and add to their list of demands the right to refuse to take experimental jabs and the right to refuse to inject others with experimental jabs.
Before we get carried away with what everyone knows now about the jabs, it is my understanding that these policemen were fired for disobeying “a valid and lawful directive”. This therefore has nothing directly to do with the jabs and in a way is a much more harmful finding. As far as I can see, this case means that a Police Commissioner in Aus can now pretty much issue any directive s/he likes and it must be obeyed as long as it is done in a “valid and lawful” way. Maybe there is some wriggle room in the word “valid”, but not in “lawful”.
The Nuremberg “I was just following orders” defence just got a boost imo.
A valid and lawful directive maybe. The purpose behind the directive – to accept an untested medical product was NOT legally sound.
I would argue that the Nuremberg code is still sacrosanct.
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Yet another reason to Abolish All Supreme Courts.
The sheer brass neck of them claiming to have “jurisdiction” over an individual’s own physical body! It’s just jaw-dropping madness.
In 1983 Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm.
His subsequent decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that would have resulted in a large-scale nuclear war.
It would appear that the old Soviet Union responded significantly better to Petrov than the current WA Police force and Union have done to the unvaccinated officers?
I always thought the Ozzies had the edge on us for common sense but no, they are even more stupid than I thought. Hoax vaccine and my daughter who is a lead skin cancer nurse refused to get jabbed but told me she’d sooner stack shelves in Aldi. She held out and recently got promoted.
One word…..France.
A very worrying development for the Australian people.