Is this a “Leopards ate my face”? I feel this is a “Leopards ate my face”.
> LGBT+ Conservative members who did not feel confident speaking publicly complained they felt “used to bolster someone’s credentials” but would be “discarded when no longer politically useful”. They said they wished Truss and Sunak had used the campaign to address patchy availability of the Monkeypox vaccine, reform of the Gender Recognition Act and the long-delayed promised crackdown on conversion practices.
> With Truss appearing the frontrunner in polls of Tory members, one senior LGBT+ figure in the party said they believed the issue “will calm down” when the next prime minister is faced with “far more important and pressing challenges and doesn’t need to just play to the base”.
“Don’t worry that our own party leader *seems* to be actively campaigning against our rights. I’m sure it will all calm down once they actually get elected, having run on that platform! Anyway, there are *more important and pressing* things to worry about than our own human rights!”
You couldn’t bloody make it up, could you?
Shocked to my very core
My siblings in Christ, you *voted* for the Tories
Jamie Wallis is a conservative MP who recently came out as trans. I don’t understand how they can campaign with the same party who under this leadership race, both leaders have constantly brought up trans/human rights as woke ideology that must be stopped.
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/r/LeopardsAteMyFace
Is this a “Leopards ate my face”? I feel this is a “Leopards ate my face”.
> LGBT+ Conservative members who did not feel confident speaking publicly complained they felt “used to bolster someone’s credentials” but would be “discarded when no longer politically useful”. They said they wished Truss and Sunak had used the campaign to address patchy availability of the Monkeypox vaccine, reform of the Gender Recognition Act and the long-delayed promised crackdown on conversion practices.
> With Truss appearing the frontrunner in polls of Tory members, one senior LGBT+ figure in the party said they believed the issue “will calm down” when the next prime minister is faced with “far more important and pressing challenges and doesn’t need to just play to the base”.
“Don’t worry that our own party leader *seems* to be actively campaigning against our rights. I’m sure it will all calm down once they actually get elected, having run on that platform! Anyway, there are *more important and pressing* things to worry about than our own human rights!”
You couldn’t bloody make it up, could you?
Shocked to my very core
My siblings in Christ, you *voted* for the Tories
Jamie Wallis is a conservative MP who recently came out as trans. I don’t understand how they can campaign with the same party who under this leadership race, both leaders have constantly brought up trans/human rights as woke ideology that must be stopped.
/r/LeopardsAteMyFace indeed
This sounds like r/LeopardsAteMyFace material