The fall of the Tory party

Only if you haven't read the legislation. Gender ('gender reassignment' in the act) and Sex are both distinctly defined in the act and the interaction between the two is well thought out. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about whether there's a difference between what we colloquially refer to as 'gender' protections for trans/non binary/gender fluid people, and 'gender reassignment' protections. To me they're the same thing.

I don't think most people have read the legislation. So it's important to be clear about what's in it. I can't see the original post that this all started with.

The Land Rover case is interesting, I'd heard of it but not read a summary of it. Clearly she had a case against them as she'd been treated really badly and it's good that employers are now on notice that simply having good-sounding policies in place isn't enough. Worth noting that she'd changed her presentation quite substantially, so it could be interpreted as extending the protection to gender-non-conformity (which would be seen as a good thing by a lot of people).

“Where a vested interest is placing itself above the needs of the people, we will stop it.”
Then please, do

Ian Dunt live tweeting this car crash of a speech.

This is like asking your bank manager to officiate your wedding. He's an Excel document attempting to write poetry.

some major projection being thrown around from Sunak here..!

On Labour:

It is about power for the sake of power.

On change:

Our political system is too focused on short term advantage, not long-term success.

Blaming COVID for HS2 cancellation is a new angle

Straight out of the republican playbook. We’re fucked.

Tory Tobacco donors sweating right now.

Cancelling HS2 to Manchester, whilst in Manchester and inside an old Manchester railway station.

Straight out of the republican playbook.

Don't blame us, we just want to kill your King.

Tory Tobacco donors sweating right now.

Wait for the masses of loopholes...

(party)

You guys are fine.

They can dress up banning tobacco sales as a tax cut if they really try hard

Uh oh. "That's just common sense."

There was a sly cut away to Theresa Coffey looking surprised

Didn't Russia try and start the same "smoking age increases each year" thing a few years ago?

Ah yes: https://time.com/4631213/russia-ban-cigarettes-born-2014/

Common sense is highly subjective

Trying to reinvent qualifications again with a UK Baccalaureate... (but of course they can't call it a forrin name)

New Zealand too i think. Its a sensible policy but weird after decades of tobacco supoort and lobbying.

Is it sensible?

How’s the ban on recreational drugs working out?

Also, potentially banning vapes at the same time seems counterproductive at best.

Apparently we're not a racist country. Which is news.

Phew. Big weight off my mind.

I guess we can let all those gangs of thieving migrants in now then.

Yeah, they're not mutually exclusive policies though. Will dig out the research report on it.

Sunak spent all the dough on lockdown mitigation so this happens..

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Edit: already mentioned

Also NZ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63954862