Yeah! My poll card said it, and my ballot said it, but the return envelope was addressed to the RO of "Cardiff Penarth".

@willhaycardiff.bsky.social Just had my postal vote reading "Cardiff Penarth". I suppose the RO knows what is and isn't legal, but I thought we were Caerdydd Penarth now?

Jesus, Mark Reckless is standing here. What did we do wrong?

Online commenter: *calls an interpreter a translator*
Me: Interpreter!
Radio host: *calls an interpreter a translator*
Me: Interpreter!!
*repeat this hellish cycle until I die*
Speaker at my funeral: *refers to my interpreting practice as translation*
Me: *shrieking in agony from the beyond*

See also: legal work.

Going through, say, endless dull contracts as a junior lawyer means you know how to deal with novel contract law problems later in your career.

And Labour suffers more from that, because they have a greater preponderance of, frankly, normal people.

Also can't believe Ruth is younger than me. Unsound.

She couldn't, because she "wouldn't have what it takes to be the best leader" - she wouldn't be middle-class, or trying to be. It's the same reason a ton of people don't think she would be a good leader *inside the Labour Party*. People are not reading gender or colour; they are reading class.

@bethrigby.bsky.social Listening to today's Electoral Dysfunction and startled that, on woman Labour leaders, none of you really mentioned *class*? Are we meant to think a woman like Angela Rayner (or me) could lead the Conservatives?

Say what you will about lawyers, but nobody does "Dear idiot, you are an idiot. Fuck right off, then, Yrs Etc..." like a general counsel in the throes of righteous wrath.

It warms the heart.

The correct way to deal with Maya Forstater and the Sex Matters ghouls

It's particularly upsetting as a rape survivor to see my suffering weaponised to justify these authoritarian measures. Measures which won't do anything to end sexual violence, but which will put individual liberty at greater risk from the state.

This is when all my canned food from Brexit pays off, isn't it.

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms

"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

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A Common Raven looking a bit like he might think common is incorrect.

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People who work for GB News should be followed to and from work by a nun with a bell chanting “Shame”

Anyway hello y'all

She waived her right to anonymity to give that speech.

"There is so much we could be doing for rape victims that isn't the Lord Chancellor using them as a cudgel to drive through reforms that aren't directly relevant to them... Don't say that this bill helps deliver justice for rape victims until it actually, materially does."

"It is *because* I have been raped that I am as passionate as I am about what it means for a justice system to be truly victim focused."

"We have been told that if we have concerns about this bill it is because we have not been raped, or because we don't care enough for rape victims. The opposite is true in my case..."

"The government's framing and narrative has been to pit survivors and defendants against each other, in a way I think is deeply damaging..."

"Here's the kicker: in this debate, experiences like mine feel like they are being weaponised, and are being used for rhetorical misdirection for what this bill actually is..."

Charlotte Nichols (Warrington North) dropping pure truth bombs right now and I am so proud of her.

Oh, that was harrowing.

"As a woman, I do not feel that one judge, probably a man, can understand my experiences" fucking thank you

God I'm so pissed off

If you're a poor, working-class woman you probably have more chance of ending up in the dock than of receiving justice if you are raped.

Legal protections are our protection.

Why are we only hearing about rape trials today? As if those are the only trials in question? It's pure emotional blackmail and it's using us as thought-terminating clichés.

It is sick, frankly, to trot us out like this. To use us like this.

"we have called more barristers than we have called women" I'm sorry, Natalie Fleet, are there no women barristers or what?

There is no clean divide between good survivors and bad criminals. The same system that fucks us over on the way in will fuck us over when we are wrongly accused.