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As always 🌹

Roz adams victory ( which I’m grateful for , another small step) just is a bit hollow for me

That man ( who is still in position at time of writing ) is still in position and should never have gotten the job in the first place 😡

It’s shite being Scottish

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May 21Author

He's on his way out, Petal. His position is untenable. Of course, being a delusional narcissist, he'll hang on til he's pushed. But I feel that will be all the more enjoyable. Remember, revenge is a dish best served cold... 😊

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I just can’t forgive the misery him and his ilk have dished out

Imagine ( as I only can ) being the victim of a sexual assault , and having to describe it for his pleasure

I’m glad I’m old and on my road out

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I’ve finally got my local library to stock ‘time to think ‘ I refused to buy it on principle , and there’s a queue for it !

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Well done Petal

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May 21Liked by JL

There is a bigger scandal which needs looked into. Wadwha and his partner managed to edge out other groups who refused to go along with gender ideology and take over their contracts. I’ve been waiting for this to make the Main stream media with full exposes but nothing yet.

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May 21Author

Indeed, Marion. We wrote about this 3 years ago!

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/mridrul-wadha-sacro-and-the-14-million

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May 21Liked by JL

You have the kind of coverage which we should expect of the Guardian or Observer. Instead they are not fit to wrap your chips in. Appalling.

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Don’t hold yer breath just yet Marion , it’s a complete shitfest

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Indeed. Should this guy not be sacked or counter sued for the trauma that Roz went through. What a circus.

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If anyone ANYONE , had any gumption he should have well gone

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*been , I don’t have an edit button anymore

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May 22Liked by JL

“The ship is sinking and the rats know it” 👏🏼 - inspired JL and I will be using the phrase at every opportunity. This WOW newsletter always makes my week but I cannot stop beaming today. Also thank you for helping me forget we have an election date looming - god knows what that will bring!

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May 23Author

Ah thank you for your kind words, Issy. Much appreciated! 😁

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I honestly think it will bring a huge labour majority ( folks don’t seem to think that a multi millionaire leader of labour is a problem )

July 4th anyone else see the significance of this ,or am I in a majority of one with my conspiracy theories

Anyhoo , Scottish nonce party will hopefully be obliterated

Off to lie down in a dark tin foiled lined room 😂

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🤣😂, I get that, it's how I feel so much of the time. I'm not looking forward to having a Labour government, or Starmer for PM, I don't think he's to be trusted at all. I understand, he's a politician, of course he can't be trusted and what's new, etc? He seems to stand for nothing, he isn't honest and I don't think the the well-being of women and girls with be safe in his hands or the hands of what will turn out to be a substantial number of his ministers and advisers.

What a shit show. It comes to something when I actually want the Tories to remain in power. In another life, my complaint about the Labour shadow government would be that it is no longer Labour and is not informed by the traditional values of the Labour Party. The gender BS is such a huge issue and will inevitably influence how I vote, I'm sure there are many people in this position.

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I agree with all you say here.

Among the most dangerous people are those who believe in nothing - because they'll latch onto anything they think will help them attain power.

If Kelly-Jay isn't standing a candidate in my constituency then I think I may well be spoiling my paper.

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There are all the wonderful For Women Scotland people Petal 😊

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What has happened at ERCC is, in particular, an indictment on anyone with influence in the country.

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May 21Liked by JL

How many more brain dead employers are going to illegally fire their workers for believing in science?! It's is utterly laughable that they STILL haven't realised that they will be taken to tribunal where they will lose. I'm finding it highly amusing by now. And a big cheer to the release of The Women who Wouldn't Wheesht book. Absolutely marvellous.

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Enter Stage Left the Scottish Greens 🤣

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Such wonderful news. I’m so pleased about the schools guidance but as cb says, we’ve still got the ideologues working in schools so parents will have to keep an eye on them. But it’s a huge relief at long last.

Stonewall losing money…what a shame. And more legal wins and an apology (of sorts) for KJK. Fantastic, thanks JL.

I always board planes like that 😁

Amazing women in the picture at the top.

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May 21Author

😁

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I loved how JL topped and tailed with those - I did wonder how he'd cope with their long skirts and bonnets...

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May 21Author

😊

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I love getting this every Tuesday it warns my heart

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May 21Author

Ah that's lovely to hear! 😊

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I didn’t have a boomtown rats moment yesterday as I didn’t read the WOW till this morning

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May 21·edited May 21Liked by JL

Great thanks JL, the RSHE stuff is great news as the successful indoctrination of children guarantees the continuation of this poisonous ideology-regardless of what happens in the courts no matter how great, but what about all the ‘trans’ and ‘non binary’ teachers who are the physical manifestation of this bullshit. They are in most schools and their presence is confirmation to children that someone can have a gender identity and its wrong and rude to challenge that concept of gender identity. Oh well, one step at a time i suppose. Its going too f-ing slow when there are vulnerable people’s welfare at stake.

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hey JL, i’m a bit pissed in the bath so forgive/ignore me, i just learnt that its terf month in june, and the slander that GL has to put up with, i was thinking i could write a song called ‘peter thackel’s definitely not a pedophile’. and maybe just set some of his own words to music. He’s such a self righteous nobhead. I heard him trying to be the grandfather of compassion the other day on the internet. What a fraud. I can’t forgive these people who use others for their own gain/ego. wankers.

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May 25Author

Ugh Peter Tatchell *SHUDDERS*

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Hi cb , how’s it going with you all ?

Getting worse than shit up here , not quite book burning ( yet ) but bookstores being asked not to stock terf authours

And I’m officially a bigot , yay 🥳

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Hey Petal, you seen this… ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13459927/amp/NHS-chiefs-legal-action-female-nurses-changing-room-transgender.html

If anyone calls you a bigot, just say you are sticking up for these women. Surely no one could accuse these nurses of bigotry? Literally hung out to dry by nhs management. Fucking wankers Petal

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I hadn’t but I’m quite happy to be called a bigot if I know that a woman doesn’t have a cock

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Boils my pish , scuse me I’m a laydee

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Hi Petal, i thought things were looking better with new SNP leadership? Kate’s there isn’t she, i seem to remember she’s not a nobhead? The publishing industry is well captured i think Petal. Who’s calling you a bigot?! Definitely a nobhead. Lots of love, Hope you are all well. CB

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New leadership is a complete joke cb ,freeport forbes will do as she’s telt !

Some Green fanny ,Adam Ramsay ,posh boy , accuses everyone who doesn’t agree with the lunacy of being a bigot

The silly little man child had the foolish notion of trying to strike a fight with stu Campbell ( wings over Scotland ) fizzled out like a damp squid

We’re all good , little petals sports day on Friday then we’re having a movie night

All the best to you and yours 😀

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Not a physical one I hasten to add !!

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Squib 😂

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If only that Pesutto 'apology' really was a good step forward for Australian women. One can tell by reading it that it's a classic abusers 'non apology' tantamount to 'oh these silly women misheard me, ok ok, let me ask my lawyers what I can say without really having to mean a thing'.

Good that he was made to do something. Pathetic is what he gave.

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I hope that Angie and KJK were paid compensation as well ( albeit presumably there would be a non disclosure agreement)

Dusty

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We can only hope!! Meanwhile what about Moira Deeming? Radio silence. Hence proving that it's all bullsh*t.

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Moira is also trying to get reinstated in the Liberal Party which adds an extra complication to it

Dusty

NB 04 July general election!! Too early, man!

NB2. On way back from Chelsea Flower Show. Pleased to report we couldn’t find a rainbow anywhere 😊 not in the sky either ☹️

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Thanks JL

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May 21Author

😊

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Thanks and book ordered.

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I don’t like to toot my own horn ( yes I bloody do 😂)

But I pointed out the Shasha Bailey case months ago

Someone more literate than me can find it

Toot toot

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GB News in January. And the Mail I think? But it's good it's getting more coverage.

https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/david-bailey-son-transgender-sascha-bailey-gender-dysphoria

He was pretty forthright: "there was no actual way I can know what it feels like to be a woman because I'd never been one, so the idea of me saying 'Oh, I feel like a woman' was absurd."

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Cheers wote 😊

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And yet there is still a media push to present gender ideology as something “the parents want”.

From The Huffington Post:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/most-parents-think-schools-should-teach-gender-identity_uk_66472978e4b06c8b1f736775

“Two Thirds Of Parents Disagree With Tories And Think Schools Should Teach Gender Identity

The government has said it should not be taught at all.”

You can see the theatrical props assembling: Us “progressive” parents against those obsolete Tory reactionaries!

“Most parents think schools should teach their children about gender identity, according to a new poll. Market research company YouGov has found that two-thirds of parents want sex education in schools where pupils are taught that it is possible to be transgender or non-binary.”

It would seem that most parents are happy for their kids to be encouraged to reject their birth gender and to start dreaming about getting sawn up.

But here come the bad guys:

“It comes after the government released draft guidance suggesting students should not have any sex education before Year 5, and that all pupils should be banned from learning about gender identity in schools.”

Since this is the big bad Tory govt, we can be assured that “what we really want” is sex education for under 5s and the teaching of “gender identity”.

And just to make sure you get the “groovy prog” point :

“The controversial plan” (banning of the sex/gender teaching) “has been widely criticised and compared to the Thatcherite legislation, Section 28, which prohibited schools from “promoting” homosexuality between 1988 and 2003.”

Marvellous. See what they did there? Trans bollocks is being compared to homosexuality!

Which leads you to wonder how these topics were pitched to the ones polled. Cf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9djGplznk

“Education secretary Gillian Keegan was unable to explain how widespread the teaching of “inappropriate” material around gender identity is on Thursday when asked about the evidence behind this controversial ban.”

Once again it is the banning of this gender ideology that is considered “controversial”. Oh how our lords and masters love to presuppose that their grubby manipulative notions are popular with everyone!

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I think the weirdest thing I have seen over the last few years is the 'progressive left' revealed to be as 'homophobic' as any of their Pat Robertson interpretations.

Turns out they didn't accept 'butch' girls or 'femme' boys either.

And now they've gone to the dark side by insisting on younger and younger sex awareness/ed? I remember sex ed as simply being appropriate for puberty and mortifying even then at 13 or so.

Visions of Orgy Porgy from Brave New World keep coming to mind.

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The entire Left - whether "prog" or "mainstream" or "alt" - was revealed to be a huge fraud with the covid project starting in 2020. When four decades of "No-Alternative" neoliberalism with its "Rightist" veneer suddenly gave way to the new "No-Alternative" of the "fight against covid" with its "Leftist" presentation, the whole Left seemingly couldn't believe their "luck" and jumped on the new bandwagon.

Which led to a curious challenge: How to embrace the mainstream media whilst still looking "subversive". They managed that by being even more extreme. Summed up beautifully by a cartoon set at the time of Jesus's birth where a town crier was calling, "King Herod has demanded the killing of all newborn males. The opposition say this doesn't go far enough!"

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Link below to the Dracula's Kiss iris blooms in my garden (waited 3 years), in celebration of all the good news and my announcement of thanks to my new subscriber contingent of gay men, who are just not interested in "gay trans men," and get why I said, I'm just not into my suddenly "lesbian trans woman" husband.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ3sjf4WUgAuEPBYic6uJCg/community?lb=UgkxW1KGO5yEJU2F38kgwGExtLtXga56-ZcI

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Beautiful

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Some great news, JL.

These court cases are so important!!

I note that the Green’s singing candidate TIM Sophie Molliy said that the Wheesht book was transphobic before anyone had actually seen a copy 😂

New RHSE guidance a step in right direction but Keegan was still confused about what a woman is on Radio 4 😂

I hope the cross sex hormones case ( O v P & Q) gets appealed !!!

Thanks again

Dusty

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I can't begin to say how valuable these GNS posts are. Surrounded by batshitters in a batshit part of a batshit city, in a batshit country in a batshit world (and all that is unfair on our beautiful bats and their excellent shit), these morsels of good news offer such solace, solidarity and encouragement. Thanks indeed for continuing to put these posts together.

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May 27Author

Thank you so much, Roger. That's so good to hear.

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Well help ma boab , it’s all going a bit tits up up here , stay tuned folks , it’s going to be a bumpy ride

A well known literary authority has told book stores not to stock books from known terfs ,and I’m now officially a bigot ( what’s new ! Do I get a badge ?)

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