What has Joanna Cherry QC been up to today?
Joanna Cherry QC is MP for Edinburgh South West and a member of the Scottish National Party party.
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One of my biggest learnings from the last few years is how many (mostly hugely entitled) men on the left deeply desire to coercively control women on the left, our thoughts, our speech our right to organise. It’s a widespread phenomenon.
and have just discovered someone is deep into a project to prove in a (it sounds) shock horror sort of way that I and others are stooges of the reactionary right, who I assume will take ignoring their questions as failing to defend myself and therefore “evidence”, so my choices/
Brilliant and insightful column by @MollyHucker in @ScotNational today - a call to action for community engagement to deliver transformative change #ClimateCrisis @ReNew_TheWorld #JustTransition https://twitter.com/scotnational/status/1555835316832874496
'Communities are the bedrock to the just transition which will secure social justice, higher living standards and restoration of biodiversity.'
https://www.thenational.scot/comment/20605164.scotlands-communities-climate-change-solution-need-talking/
Fantastic @edintfest opening night performance at @BTMurrayfield 👏👏
MACRO @edintfest opening event - a fabulous first night for the 75th festival
I will be holding my advice surgery next Wednesday 10th August, 2-4pm, at The Welcoming, 20 Westfield Avenue, EH11 2TT. If you are a constituent living in Edinburgh South West & would like my assistance, please call 0131 600 0156 to make an appointment.
https://joannacherry.scot/surgeries
🧵I’m pleased @theSNP intervention seeks to put some of the wider arguments about the right to self determination & Scottish notions of sovereignty. Also pleased to see Cherry v Adv General (the prorogation care) quoted at para 47. Indy supporters should 1/2
⚖️ The Lord Advocate's reference on the independence referendum will be heard in the Supreme Court on 11-12 October.
🏴 The SNP has now submitted an application to intervene in the independence referendum case.
👇🏼 Read the full application here.
https://www.snp.org/supremecourt/
There's never a bad time to remind everyone of the key principles of public life ("the Nolan principles"). These include selflessness, honesty and integrity. We have a right to expect those representing us to understand, respect, promote and act in accordance with these.
Its time political parties realised that it’s not compatible with their duties under the #EqualityAct as membership organisations or providers of goods & services to discriminate on the grounds of the protected characteristics of belief or sexual orientation.
“Labour is still refusing to let the LGB Alliance, the Labour Women’s Declaration and FiLia, a huge grassroots feminist charity promoting women’s rights, have stands at its conference. What are they so afraid of?” #LetWomenSpeak https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/08/02/labours-trans-rights-policy-looking-increasingly-absurd/
I think the Scottish independence movement should be grateful to @trussliz. It looks like she’s going to be PM. On every future occasion Tories or unionists talk about a union of equals or respect for Scotland we have her foolish outburst to play on a loop.
The “United” Kingdom. https://twitter.com/C4Ciaran/status/1554189095508787202
Liz Truss has just told a Tory Leadership hustings that ‘the best thing to do with @NicolaSturgeon is to ignore her’.
This should be a real wake up call to those who seek to downplay the extent to which democracy in Scotland is ignored & derided by the Tories. It’s not just what Truss says but also the rapturous response of her audience which is so telling.
Liz Truss says she would "just ignore" the democratically-elected leader of the second largest nation in the United Kingdom
This is crazy. Not just from perspective of those doing these jobs don’t deserve pay cuts but also the vacancy rate is really hurting public services - especially the NHS where it’s already one in ten and would get worse under this policy https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1554218043370340353
Tuesday’s INDEPENDENT Digital: “Truss plans public sector pay cut outside south east” #TomorrowsPapersToday
Liz Truss says she would "just ignore" the democratically-elected leader of the second largest nation in the United Kingdom
Support for independence and getting the hell out of dodge just went up quite a few notches.....pathetic hubris from this wannabe PM, appealing to her 'base' base. https://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1554220539274821635
Tory leadership hopeful @TrussLiz has claimed it is best to ignore Scotland’s elected First Minister @NicolaSturgeon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-62385757
Today the Irish flag flies at half-mast for the funeral of Lord David Trimble.
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his crucial role in the Good Friday Agreement, he courageously took political risks to advance peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.
May he rest in peace.
Reminder that this online workshop on Tuesday 9th August is aimed at supporting small community groups and charities to apply for funding at Peoples Postcode Lottery
.@RishiSunak claims "We have a problem with human rights laws in this country which makes it difficult for us to achieve our objectives". The cross party @HumanRightsCtte disagree. Read our views here https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/22880/documents/167940/default/.
Men:
Football’s coming home!! It’s coming home!! IT’s coming!!
Women, 60yrs later: … FFS I’ll get it myself.
⚽️💪🏃🏻♀️
What a performance and what wonderful advert for womens sport. 👏👌 🏆 🦁🤩 ⚽️
@Lionesses https://twitter.com/WomensSport/status/1553811338153136134
🏆 ENGLAND ARE #WEURO2022 CHAMPIONS!!!🏆
The #Lionesses have done it!
#ENG 2-1 #GER
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/07/31/england-vs-germany-live-score-euro-final-2022-womens-latest/
My boys asked why I was crying and I told them that when I was little girls weren’t allowed to play football (outside than in the garden or park). There’s been such a fight to get here before they even entered the stadium glorious #Lionesses
Read the horrible history of the FA’s sexism - and how it banned the women’s game in 1921. And a great book on how women resisted and won. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jun/13/how-the-fa-banned-womens-football-in-1921-and-tried-to-justify-it?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
To anyone confused about what ‘woman’ means remember 2 things. Today women won. Around a century ago women were thrown out of English football.
Massive congratulations to the #Lionesses. You made cynical Scottish women rather emotional! Amazing performance.
You can always depend on the women to get the job done!
I’ve thanked @Feorlean for this reassurance but it would be good to hear that all the proposers of the motion particularly @AIMAberdeen are on the same page. The threat of a code of conduct that could be discriminatory or unlawful is damaging to the cause.
Gender-critical activists have been reassured they won't be excluded from the official Yes campaign
https://www.thenational.scot/news/20590949.snps-michael-russell-reassures-gender-critical-activists-yes-campaign-proposal/
Watching #Eng v #Ger in France with a German friend & I’m supporting England. Not something I do very often but it’s such a joy to see women’s sport centre stage & the England team have been amazing. That was some goal!
This is a brave column since, as Sonia well knows, taking this view about basic biology can lead to instant allegations of transphobia.
Don’t buy the Stonewall line on gender identity? Fine. You can’t be sacked for that now | Sonia Sodha https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/31/dont-buy-stonewall-line-gender-identity-cant-sack-you-now?CMP=share_btn_tw
Hi everyone. Do come to the show if you’re in Edinburgh. As the article says I’ll be working out “how I became the wrong kind of gay”!!! @bindelj @HJoyceGender @jk_rowling @joannaccherry @simonjedge @MForstater https://twitter.com/MRCommsUK/status/1553681045853278209
Lovely to be working with @simonfanshawe again & Hollywood director, producer & Entertainment Coach founder @PaulDuddridge promoting The Power of Difference at this year's @edfringe - as featured in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stonewall-founder-simon-fanshawe-why-am-i-the-wrong-kind-of-gay-zfc0v6f9g https://twitter.com/SimonFanshawe/status/1553428901782867969
A code of conduct designed to silence & marginalise those who believe biological sex is immutable or those with a same sex orientation would be discriminatory & unlawful. This can’t be what the proposers of the motion intend. Perhaps they could clarify that?
It’s important that these allegations are properly investigated. It would be very concerning if any institution in Scotland, particularly in our political firmament, had a cavalier attitude towards safeguarding or was captured by any particular interest group
Five young men who claim to have been groomed, harassed or assaulted by Jordan Linden have accused a youth charity boss of failing to protect them
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/five-alleged-victims-snp-council-27619397
Happy Birthday @jk_rowling. Thank you for your steadfast support for women & girls, lesbians, equality law & #FreeSpeech & for your personal support through some difficult times. We may disagree about Scottish #Independence but we do so as friends. 💪
🧵Excellent article by @soniasodha exploring the consequences of the #AllisonBailey decision for employers whose policies have been captured by inaccurate statements of #equality law & #freespeech made by @stonewalluk 1/2
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/31/dont-buy-stonewall-line-gender-identity-cant-sack-you-now?CMP=share_btn_tw
This betrays a misunderstanding of the Equality Act. It might not be perfect but if interpreted correctly (it isn’t always) it protects sex-based rights and provides a framework to balance conflicting rights.
https://news.sky.com/story/tory-leadership-race-rishi-sunak-vows-to-stop-woke-nonsense-and-left-wing-agitators-in-latest-pledge-12661643
Suella Braverman(Attorney General) needs to watch this. 👇
Oh for goodness sake! Could the Tory leadership race get any dumber? It’s not the Equality Act that’s the problem! 🤦♀️ It acknowledges the biological reality of sex as Scotland’s Supreme Court held recently thanx to @ForWomenScot https://inews.co.uk/news/rishi-sunak-vows-to-review-equalities-act-if-he-becomes-prime-minister-to-stop-woke-nonsense-1770260
“As Brexit threatens to dismantle the hard won peace in Northern Ireland its timely to think back to the reality of the Troubles.” An interesting read from @lizwoodcraft.
In this week’s Law Society Gazette I have an article about my visit to Armagh Women’s Gaol in Northern Ireland in 1985, to investigate how strip searching was being used. And how in 2006 my experience became a part of the Prisons Memory Archive.
It’s the sort of thing Ministers should want to know. https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1553076147428130817
This is brilliant from @VictoriaPeckham “…there is only so long you can shut down questions, silence debate. Someone with true courage, who cannot live with their conscience if they fail to act, will eventually risk all.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a8875ebe-0f73-11ed-93cf-b011fa7fe86b?shareToken=09f3ecefc46052d35d2da037da4b17c4
What fresh hell is this? Idiotic indeed as Dominic Grieve says but also deeply embarrassing nonsense from someone with a legal training who really ought to know better. #RuleOfLaw https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1553076147428130817
This will be an interesting case to keep an eye on, hearing 9-15 September. You’d think Mermaids might be reflecting on their role in perpetrating failings in children’s healthcare - instead they’re going after the charitable status of another charity that disagrees with them https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1552983549887889410
Mermaids is taking us to court to try to strip us of our charitable status. If successful, it means important films like this will not be made.
If you think that’s absurd and outrageous, please support our crowd funder now.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-lgb-alliances-charity-sta/
https://youtu.be/oTf1gPZaBWg
A woman updates on the court case of a man who threatened her (having been through this a lot). Another man says:
So many complex reasons are offered to explain the energy price rises crippling households…but there’s nothing complicated about plain old greed. #costofliving #energybills https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/jul/28/shell-profits-record-households-cost-of-living-us-economy-gdp-business-live?CMP=share_btn_tw
I’m shocked by this & I would be very surprised if the @ChtyCommission found this an acceptable way for a registered charity to raise funds. As well as being offensive it could be read as an incitement to violence. https://twitter.com/aktcharity/status/1552304888029364224
New yoga classes starting next week at the Dhammapadipa Temple.
http://www.dhammapadipa.com/yoga-classes/
#EdinburghSouthWest
“The further a Society drifts away from the truth, the more it will hate those who dare speak it.”
– George Orwell https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1552630888923648000
Over the past few years so many women (& a few men) have given so much in the fight to be able to talk about the impact of gender ideology &the reality of sex.
What has it all been for?
It has been about the ability to talk about the law & public policies & about data, science
On the day the Tavistock child gender clinic is ordered to close, here is my recent @thetimes magazine piece which explains why. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-went-wrong-at-the-tavistock-clinic-for-trans-teenagers-v5cfcw77n
Important to appreciate that this decision which vindicates the concerns of many feminists, LGB activists & healthcare professionals is based on the advice of a Dr Hilary Cass, a very senior paediatrician, after careful consideration.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e1ed2bea-0e63-11ed-93cf-b011fa7fe86b?shareToken=9e3496666914f5b52582e0afb9d46636
Significant dividends from the windfall gains of energy companies must be passed onto consumers in a meaningful way. To fail to do so would be immoral. Let’s hear the Tory leadership candidates talk about that. #CostOfLivingCrisis
BREAKING | British Gas owner Centrica profits increase five-fold as energy bills soar https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/centrica-profits-gas-energy-bills-b2132932.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1658990451
The employment tribunal victories of @MForstater & @BluskyeAllison have strengthened my resolve to stay in politics & to see off the bullies who’ve tried to silence me. I am so grateful to them & their supporters.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9425b5fa-0dc1-11ed-a4af-79eb4b98fc31?shareToken=c608de67a6e187f3702a1733ae1adb6d
Quite ‘sinister’ how certain men are so keen to dismiss the important legal win by a black, lesbian, working class, feminist, about discrimination by her employer for holding beliefs about the reality of biological sex. I wonder why that is?