The motion, passed overwhelmingly at the party’s annual conference in Brighton, makes the Lib Dems the first of the big three parties in parliament to call for a new approach to implementing last year’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only. The Greens have previously done so.

That's good. Labour is notably late here.

The Supreme Court ruling is wrong anyway. That said, it just means the Equality Act needs an amendment to make it less unclear that women includes trans women, but apparently no one has done that yet.

It's quite telling when someone, including supposed activist organization Stonewall, insists you should follow the law. Activism is all about not bending to unjust laws and rulings. Being publically gay was illegal until fairly recently in Britain. Did they just say "oh well, guess we can't be gay"? No. Of course not.

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[–] 9 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

That can’t be right - just yesterday people on Lemmy were saying the Lib Dems don’t have any principles and don’t stand for anything!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 23 hours ago

    On my other post, no less!

    Yeah, I think they have been fairly wishy washy on things so far. They do feel like an "MPs do their own thing" party so far, but maybe they're trying to change?

    Maybe they've been like this for a while but they've not gotten much air time so it's hard to tell.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    "they don't have any principles" very often means "they don't have principles I agree with". People are kinda bad at understanding principles they don't agree with, which makes it difficult to see when people are working according to them.

    This means that the lib Dems, whose main principle is liberalism which people on Lemmy generally don't agree with, get it in the teeth.

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