Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Tory leadership hopeful paints a picture of special treatment. As the father of an autistic child, I can tell you that’s a lie, says Guardian columnist John Harris
The party that amused itself to death.
Brilliant!
As a psychotherapist I cannot emphasise just how inherently offensive, harmful and inaccurate Kemi Badenoch’s pamphlet is. It woefully ignores the systemic barriers facing people with mental ill health, neurodivergence and disability. 📸 Excerpt from The Guardian 🖋️ inews.co.uk/news/politic...
As we left the Lodgings today, two middle-aged male tourists were photographing our front door in intense close-up. As we sidled around them politely, one said to my husband: "Are you the President?" Never make assumptions...
To take just the first point - OF COURSE it wouldn’t stop legal challenges. The Rwanda case alone relied on other domestic & international law aside from the ECHR. And isn’t his position that English common law provides sufficient rights? In which case there will be challenges asserting those rights
In which he says leaving the ECnHR would stop any legal challenges to deporting illegal migrants, stop the party banging on about Europe, wouldn’t follow a referendum, & could be squared with the GFA via a British or NI Bill of Rights (albeit not ‘plain sailing’). www.thetimes.com/article/fc60...
The Conservative leadership race candidate says he will stop the party ‘banging on about Europe’ and focus on the economy, the health service, housing and education
Here's K.Badenoch, who thinks an autism diagnosis entails "economic advantages and protections". She also queries providing school transport for autistic kids & has no idea what neurodiversity/divergence are, and why they have abs nothing to do with, say, anxiety. Pls repost
