The Brexit referendum showed how out of touch the political class often is with the public they claim to represent, this referendum in Ireland has shown that again with bells on.
And yet still, the only UK Party leader standing firm against this woke obsession is Rishi Sunak, who – unlike Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer – seems to be the only one of them who can say what a woman is and is not afraid to say how important biological sex is. The Labour Party seems to have been completely captured by the woke extremists.
But how did such a zany idea even get to become a referendum in Ireland – surely there are more important things for politicians to be doing, like getting inflation down, or stopping illegal immigration? Well, this referendum came about through a Citizens’ Assembly – another nonsense idea being pedalled by the left and Keir Starmer. These ‘gatherings’ are meant to represent the people, yet the fact is – as this case perfectly illustrates – they just tend to represent an extreme left-wing ideological sect.
For all its faults the House of Commons is far more representative than a ‘citizen’s assembly’.
The good people of Ireland have absolutely, unquestionably, unapologetically rejected wokeism.
When asked to vote on removing references to the family and women from their constitution they decisively said no.
Despite their politicians saying such language was ‘anachronistic’ and woke campaigners declaring such terms as ‘old fashioned and ‘sexist’ the public were having none of it and gave them an absolute bashing at the ballot box.
Having been dubbed the Minister for Common Sense, I receive many letters and emails asking me “what on earth are politicians thinking of to come out with this kind of clap trap?”.
Thankfully, when the proposal was put to the people in a vote, it was thoroughly trashed but if you’d have listened to the media, and the political and chattering classes, you wouldn’t have seen that result coming.
Thank goodness for the secret ballot and the common sense of the public, who were not prepared to be browbeaten by an out of touch but very noisy politically correct minority.
Thank goodness too we have a Prime Minister who knows what a woman is. He champions the family unit too, which is why he has overseen the biggest increase in childcare. Families can receive up £6,900 per year if they take up their full allowance. He’s also changed the earning levels for child benefit, which will mean extra support to families with a single earner – something which we’ve just heard from Labour they would undo.
As someone who all my working life has supported women in business – setting up the biggest business women’s network in the north west before I entered Parliament and establishing a charity to support young female pupils with career advice and role models – I’m horrified that such woke nonsense will set women’s rights back decades.
This lack of political support for women’s rights, women’s single-sex spaces, women’s services and women’s sport by the left in politics is nothing short of an outrage.
It has been down to the bravery of people like Sharon Davies to point out the obvious physical difference between men and women to try to ensure we maintain the integrity of women’s sport.
We simply cannot have men self-identifying as a woman to compete against them. It is madness.
JK Rowling too, has stood up for women’s rights to single-sex spaces and received unacceptable abuse for stating the blindingly obvious.
Recognising physical differences between the sexes should not be controversial. It is a scientific fact. Championing women and the family too should not be causing such hostility and opprobrium.
Mercifully we are still a nation with common sense and have some brave souls prepared to speak out.
Let’s hope the referendum result in Ireland brings about a retreat of the woke extremists in the UK as well.
