Labour’s sinister record on trans rights

There’s a funny saying the Cockneys have to describe something ghastly coming in the wake of something lovely: ‘After the Lord Mayor’s show…’ 

One online dictionary describes it thus: ‘Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent or triumphal event… from the proverb “After the Lord Mayor’s show comes the dust-cart”… Bringing up the rear of the Lord Mayor’s Show is a team to clean the manure of the pageant’s horses.’

How better to describe Anneliese Dodds succeeding Kemi Badenoch and becoming Minister of State for Women and Equalities? On one hand a bold, beautiful woman – so fearsome to cry-bullies that they wished she didn’t exist – who put herself through college by working at McDonald’s and who defines what differentiates women from men as ‘Puberty, menstruation, menopause… it is very biological’. And on the other, the over-privileged and expensively-educated Dodds, who has never had a job outside of politics and academia and seems to be utterly baffled about basic biology.