First, apologies for the typos, I was in a bit of hurry and the print was very small on my screen. eg option = opinion.

I mentioned this matter to my wife, had she heard of Rosie Duffield? It produced an immediate reaction, she knew all about her gender critical views that arise from her support for women's rights, and told me that an MP in the House of Commons had stood over her in some threatening way in regard to these views, , and her leader and party totally failed to support her then. I can't presently find a video of this event.

I have since also found out she gave a moving speech about her own experience of serious domestic abuse. The videos I am now watching seem to provide a positive view of Rosie and her political principles and comments under them are also supportive. .

As was predicted by many, including contributors here and including myself, Starmer's authoritarian leadership and his failure to allow for any form of radical dissent might have brought him quite a victory in the House of Commons, but they will have come with a very high price in sustaining any sort of cohesiveness in the party in time. Labour is not just a party, but it's a movement and an ideology of which radicalism is or should be a major part. Starmer has failed all this, and without those fundamental underpinnings, the party will start to disintegrate, not just in the parliament, but in the grudging support it temporarily gained in the citizenry.