What happened on 14th April 2023

On Friday, the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that '100% Women Don't Have Penises' as a response to  Labour Party chief and Leader of Opposition in the British parliament Sir Keir Stramer's recent statement claiming "99.9 per cent of women of course do not have penises." But he quickly admitted that when it came to these issues of protecting women's rights, women's spaces, he thought the issue of biological sex has been fundamentally important when we thought about those questions.

British redditors saw pre-election PR in this pseudo funny question.

"To think this is what a pm is being asked in 2023 compared to all the countries and world problems."

"Making people terrified of and angry at trans people is the easier way to gain votes for the next election, hence the conservative focus on it.

Talking about housing, the NHS and the economy won’t work, and immigration isn’t going to work unless results are seen, so trying to centre the dialogue around trans people is unfortunately their best hope, just as Lee Anderson has said."

"Are we right to conclude this was a planted question? something Rishi actually wanted to and thought he ought to be talking about... curious."

"Forgive my ignorance but is there a concrete reason that trans issues have been so big? Has there been a law change or something that has changed their rights in some way? I'm aware of the SNP proposed change to gender reassignment age, but this was all going on before then"

On Friday, we also have known that one in four Britons unaware they need ID to vote in May elections.

 

The BBC readers consider that "Voting fraud is almost non-existent."

"The Tories have such dire poll ratings, that they have to resort to attempted voter suppression."

"There was no cheating going on before in elections. Now there is cheating and it's being done by the government."

Redditors agree with them and go a bit farther in their critics.

"Poor people having the right to vote is a problem for the Conservative Party. A lot of people in this country won’t have a passport, or a driving license purely because going on holiday or owning a car is too expensive and how many people are going to request another form of ID specifically to vote? Not many. We’re following the way of America. Make it hard to vote for those who are most heavily impacted by said vote."

"Problem is it’s the poor who vote Tory in the first place. They’re disillusioned about migrants and migrants, and well you know… migrants."

 That was a day when a student has been found guilty of threatening behaviour after throwing eggs at the King in York last November.

After making fun of the news,

"Bold strategy indeed - ‘you all saw him! The king was oppressing me right there and then!’"

the readers remembered of their anti-monarchic attitudes:

"The UK public really do have an oppression fetish. Fuck the monarchy, bunch of wronguns. Even the late-Queen was complicit in hiding her son from the FBI."

"He threw eggs at the head of state. Go to any country in the world and do that and see how it goes.

However in saying that, fuck the monarchy."

"I really hope for more eggs at coronation. To make awesome French omelettes obviously! I feel sorry for the lad, if he threw it at a random person police wouldn't even bother."