I can't even... Yesterday was a total mess for our PM. Sir Keir Starmer got absolutely roasted by campaigners and Kemi Badenoch after spending literal YEARS doing that politician dance around defining what a woman is. And now he's trying to act like he's thrilled about the Supreme Court judgment? Give me a break.
The hypocrisy is just... chef's kiss. This is teh same guy who's been tying himself in rhetorical knots for ages on this issue. Remember 2022? That's when he boldly declared "Trans women are women" with all the conviction of someone who thought that was the politically safe position. Then in 2023, he did that little pivot to calling a woman an "adult female" - such courage!
That 99.9% Comment Still Makes Me Cringe
But nothing - and I mean NOTHING - tops his 2024 masterpiece when he claimed that 99.9% of women "don't have a penis." I nearly spit out my coffee when I heard that one. Like, did he actually sit down with his advisors and calculate that 1 in 1000 women have male genitalia? Was there a spreadsheet involved?
Kemi Badenoch didn't hold back, saying: "The era of Keir Starmer telling us some women have penises has come to an end. Hallelujah!"
Honestly, fair play to her.
Rosie's T-Shirt Comment Had Me Howling
Former Labour MP Rosie Duffield (who got so fed up she's now an independent) joked about buying him an "I told you so" T-shirt. "But I would need a different one for every moment of every day," she added. I mean... savage. But deserved? Probably.
Back in 2019, I was at a Labour event where this topic came up in a side conversation. The tension in the room was thicker than my aunt's Christmas pudding. You could see the party splitting into factions right before your eyes - the activists versus the pragmatists. One MP (who shall remain nameless) whispered to me, "This will be our undoing if we don't sort it out." Prophetic words, mate.
Blame Corbyn! (As Always)
Of course, a "Labour source" (don't you love anonymous quotes?) wasted no time throwing Jeremy Corbyn under the bus. According to them, this whole mess shows "why it was so important that Keir hauled the Labour Party back to the commonsense position." Yeah, after he spent years NOT taking that position.
They went on about how Starmer "gradually moved the party" away from activism to a "serious, sensible" stance. Gradually is right - glaciers move faster.
Wait... What About Those £4,300 Focus Groups?
I spoke with someone who worked on Labour's campaign last year who told me they spent thousands on focus groups trying to figure out how to navigate this issue. "His response when shown the data was basically 'How do I please everyone?'" my source told me. Spoiler alert: you can't.
Despite the brave face and defiant statements from Labour HQ, it took approximately 3.5 seconds for Starmer's wokest MPs to start publicly disagreeing with the Supreme Court decision.
Lord, give me strength.
The photos from outside the Supreme Court tell their own story - campaigners celebrating a victory they've fought years for, while Labour scrambles to pretend they were on the right side all along.
Politics, eh? Sometimes I wonder why I've spent 15 years covering this stuff. Then I remember it's because the alternative was accounting, and I'm terrible at math.
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