Tom Harris in the Telegraph:

That is how events played out this weekend when the Brighton Centre played host to FiLiA, a Europe-wide feminist campaigning organisation who held their annual conference in the city. You might be forgiven for believing that the Sussex venue would be ideal for a conference debating women’s and girls’ rights. Brighton, after all, is Britain’s San Francisco, known for its high proportion of gay and trans citizens and a generally progressive outlook.

That’s just it though. The two don’t march together any more. Women and girls’ rights are one thing and trans ideology is another. The “gay” umbrella is full of gaping holes that let the rain in, because lesbians don’t necessarily want to be inclooosive of men who call themselves lesbians, and men who idennify as lesbians are intensely hostile to gender critical lesbians.

You would be mistaken, however. The city “welcomed” the conference the night before it was due to open by sending along a gang of masked men who smashed windows and spray-painted graffiti on its walls in protest at the women being allowed to gather there.

Let’s face it, women over the age of 11 are a menace. They should all be locked up. It’s good enough for Kabul, so why not for Brighton?

Even worse, one of the city’s MPs offered no support to the delegates. Sian Berry, who represents Brighton Pavilion for the Green Party, tweeted that: “Events that inflame division and create tension should be guarded against and [Brighton and Hove Council] needs better policies for which events it will host in our council-owned venues. The choice of Brighton was clearly provocative from organisers and the problems predictable.”

Note how an elected representative makes such great effort to avoid blaming the vandals and thugs who carried out this act of intimidation; look how she blames the women taking part in the conference for “provoking” innocent men into breaking the law against their will. 

We did. We noted. We looked. We objected.

Imagine Raphael Warnock tweeted about anti-racism activists being “provocative” by choosing Yazoo City, Mississippi for a conference. Yes, that would be “provocative” in the sense of provoking attention to a long history of racism, and that’s a good thing. Brighton is way too much on the side of people who have decided women are the oppressor class. Brighton needs some provoking.

Does this victim blaming sound at all familiar? As the Labour MP Jonathan Hinder tweeted: “Why did she wind him up? She knows he’s got a bad temper!”

We know the trans army has a bad temper. We think it needs to learn to control that temper.

t wasn’t just the Greens who shamed themselves by their behaviour; their progressive stablemates, the Liberal Democrats, after reports of the night time attack, were only too happy to crow about how their own conference had been free from such violence and vandalism: “We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the [LibDems] had our conference there a year ago,” tweeted the party’s LGBT section.

Maybe that’s because Sir Ed Davey’s party is careful not to say anything that might upset certain sections of the community who are ever ready to slip on their size 12 stilettos and do some damage to anyone who disagrees with them. In this way, they guarantee “protection” for their events…

No no no it’s because they are so vulnerable.

Isn’t it?

Making up the triumvirate of shame was the Labour Party, which controls the local council and which refused to provide security protection for the women using one of its venues on the entirely unconvincing basis that it would be “disproportionate”, and not at all because they wanted to keep on the good side of the many trans people in Brighton who currently vote for them.

So interesting. Men bullying women is not disproportionate; stopping men bullying women is. Why’s that?

[T]he right of women to congregate and talk about their own safety is being fatally compromised. If female MPs like Sian Berry from allegedly “progressive” parties can no longer be expected to stand in defence of those rights, then who can?

The footsoldiers.