There are cases in which the only possible explanation is an utter departure from reality. Recently, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court, which serves a very similar purpose as our Supreme Court, only in the metric system, issued an earth-shattering finding - that men are men and women, women.
I know, right? That's some real cutting-edge legalizing, there. The British Supreme Court has engaged in the greatest example of belaboring the obvious since Christopher Columbus observed, "Hey, this Atlantic Ocean is really big, isn't it?" And on Monday, we learned that Labour politicians, aided indirectly by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, are already looking for ways to defy the ruling.
Sir Keir Starmer has refused to stop a plot by ministers to thwart last week’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women.
Labour ministers and MPs will this week meet to discuss how to promote trans rights in the wake of the landmark judgment. They are understood to be planning to take their demands to the equalities minister.
The plot emerged in leaked WhatsApp messages from a group chat of Labour MPs, including ministers Sir Chris Bryant and Dame Angela Eagle.
See, this is the kind of trouble you run into when you let only marginally capable people like Kier Starmer, Chris Bryant, and Angela Eagle carry around titles like "Sir" and "Dame."
Both railed against comments made by Baroness Falkner, the equality watchdog chief, who said the ruling meant trans women would be banned from women’s single-sex spaces. They urged colleagues to meet them to discuss their concerns.
However, Downing Street refused to take any action against the two ministers, claiming they were not trying to undermine the judgment.
That's an odd turn of phrase, unless, in the United Kingdom, "...not trying to undermine the judgement" means "...totally trying to undermine the judgement." The fact is that yes, the judgment should restore women-only spaces, like restrooms and locker rooms, and that's precisely how it should be.
Nigel Farage had an observation on the matter that should sound familiar on this side of the Atlantic:
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, told The Telegraph: “Labour is now badly split, and the Left vote poses a major problem for them. Starmer believes that cowardice will be his salvation. He is wrong.”
Labour is badly split in Britain, just as the Democrats are badly split in the United States, and this issue, this lunatic notion that men should be allowed in women's restrooms and changing spaces - not to mention showers, in the case of "transgender athletes" - is a huge liability for both of these parties. Britain, after all, is only a few decades away from sanity; up until World War 2, they were America, Original Recipe, and the British people had some good sense. My guess is that on this issue, they probably still do.
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UK Supreme Court Rules the Obvious: Men Are Men, Women Are Women
Of course, the left, which in Britain takes the name of "Labour" despite the fact that nobody in the British left has done any actual labor in several decades, has a monopoly on peace, love, and understanding, right? Inclusiveness, respect, tolerance, and all that?
Horse squeeze. The pro-dudes-in-women's-bathrooms crowd held a demonstration in Parliament Square, and some of the optics to come out of that are hilarious:
After attending the rally, Jo Grady, the UCU general secretary of UCU wrote on X: “Hate will never win.” Her message was posted above a picture of a sign saying “The only good TERF is a _ _ _ _ TERF” with a picture of a gallows to represent the word “dead”.
A Terf is a trans-exclusionary radical feminist, used as a term of abuse by trans rights activists for gender-critical women. Other placards seen at the rally included one that said “Kill JK Rowling”, referring to the gender-critical Harry Potter author, and another saying “Bring back witch-burning”.
Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party need to hit this hard every day - this, and the loss of British culture to wave after wave of immigration from North Africa and the Middle East. Britain was once a great country. It is not, any longer; it has descended into lunacy, has become self-destructive, and the British left is not even within shouting distance of reality.
Mind you, this is precisely the path the Democratic Party here in the United States would take us, given the chance. That's why I pay attention to what's going on in Britain on these issues; that's why we should all pay attention to Britain. It's too easy and too obvious to look at Britain today and say, "There, but for the grace of God, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, goes America."
