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i think policy like this is positioned exactly because of the response to S35 in scotland, there is a direct line between the two in labours electoral stratagy and where they see a route to power. not to forget their own response to the bill. socially progressive policy takes arguing for something, explaining something and being able to bring that vision of change to the electorate. this is something of an antithesis of labours current electoral and governing stratagy which is to instead preside over the leavers of power as a naieve technocratic care taker. dogmatically ideological in professing they're of no ideology while others, with more material politics, use that to their advantage.
which is one of the great success's of the right, much as it was during the gay panic, treating christo conservative fundamentalism as a women and childrens rights conflict. backing this up with liberal technocratic concencus through emerging medical care fields like STD's and aids. it took 20 plus years of campaigning to have these two seperated. it was not done by political parties, but by queer people and people getting to know queer people. i imagine we're in for the same.