What happened on 24th June 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Saturday, Rye College has denied allegations that a pupil self-identified as a cat as the education secretary started an investigation into the claims.

Penny Mordaunt, the Commons leader, confirmed the inquiry days after a video featuring an exchange between two 13-year-old girls and a teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, went viral. The teacher said that the pair were “despicable” for saying that gender should be linked to biological sex and told one of them she should “go to a different school” for rejecting the idea that a classmate could identify as a cat.

Rye College said yesterday that it had met the Department for Education over the matter. It added that none of its pupils identified as cats or any other animal.

Sir Desmond Swayne, the former Conservative minister, told the Commons: “Pupils have been denounced as despicable for failing to accept at the reality of a fellow pupil who identified as a cat. Can we have a debate on Confucius, for it was he who observed that the most difficult thing is to search a dark room for a black cat, particularly when there is no cat?”

Mordaunt replied: “The Department for Education is obviously currently reviewing guidance to schools on these matters and I understand also that the education secretary has launched an investigation into the particular incident he refers to.”

No one was surprised, however.

"Yeah as bloody expected all these people got themselves good and hysterical over a hypothetical.

Will any of them show any contrition? Will any of them have a good bit of self-reflection on why they got so wound up by just the mere thought of this? Will it stop them jumping on this bandwagon in future or have them question these kinds of sources before immediately taking the story at face value?

Lol who are we kidding, of fucking course they won't. I'd try and tag some of them into this thread if it didn't feel a bit too close to cyberbullying in itself."

"Oh, colour me all shades of surprised, the original story was bullshit.

tl;dr of actual story:

Student: My trans classmate’s gender identification is as crazy as identifying as a cat.

Teacher: Stop being shitty to your classmate.

Media: OMG A CHILD IS IDENTIFYING AS A CAT AND A TEACHER IS SUPPORTING THEM"

"No one was identifying as a cat or an attack helicopter. That's the sort of bullshit strawman which transphobes throw around to try to dehumanise and delegitimise trans people.

The teacher was telling the students to stop being cunty towards their classmates. It would be pretty fucked up to suggest that teachers should allow bullying on any grounds, whether that's gender and sexuality or any other reason."

Also Brits were reported that SNP will use general election to negotiate independence. 

Humza Yousaf has backed using the next general election as a referendum to negotiate Scottish independence. He said that if the SNP won the most seats in Scotland then it would seek talks with the UK government on how to "give democratic effect" to the country becoming independent.

Scotland's first minister added the only route to independence was through "lawful and democratic process".

Both Labour and the Tories are opposed to further talks on another referendum. But Mr Yousaf told a convention in Dundee that his party would stand on the proposition that people could "vote SNP for an independent Scotland". 

"A few issues for the SNP

1: Westminster has already said they won’t recognise such a move

2: the people of Scotland have said they won’t recognise such a move

3: Polls have the SNP loosing big time next general election

So Westminster has already said they won’t negotiate with the SNP no matter the outcome, the people of Scotland don’t see a general election as a defacto referendum (and some polls even show the SNPs own voters being a 50/50 split) which means there’s no repercussions for Westminster in saying no and finally if the SNP makes loose like the polls are predicting, then by the SNPs own logic this will be a rejection of independence by the Scottish people.

For the SNP; this is a loose loose. This is just utter desperation from the SNP"

"If they really want the next general election to be a de facto independence referendum then they need to run on a platform of just seeking independence.

Anything else, such as also campaigning with promises of popular policies (in Scotland) of raising taxes for the rich and leading the UK in green policies just muddy the water and undermine an idea that a general election is a single party issue."

"This seems to be a easy money glitch..We will give you independence, just give us money! SNP needs more billions."

 Also on Saturday, it came to know that the Green Party are politicians who oppose solar farms.

 Given the party's environmentalist credentials, these are two things you would expect to be inseparable bedfellows.

And yet in some rural areas of England where support for the Greens has surged at recent local elections, the reality is more complicated.

Despite the party's zeal for sources of renewable energy, some of its councillors in England have opposed solar farms locally.

While these councillors say they had good reasons to reject solar farms, their resistance sits uneasily alongside their party's national energy policy, which envisions a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

The apparent contradiction has not gone unnoticed by the party's critics, who have accused some Greens of hypocrisy for blocking clean energy.

 

That was infuriating.

 

"OK, what's their solution then?

I've lost patience with people who oppose zero carbon energy plans without any alternative suggestions."

"They finally enter the real world and accept nuclear power should make up part of our supply only to start this nonsense."

"Sad reality behind the greens is that they aren't a serious party with real solutions.

Them not wanting stuff in their back garden is standard behaviour and not unusual."