More than 30 barristers and academics have signed a public letter to equalities minister Bridget Phillipson accusing Jolyon’s Good Law Project (GLP) of making “egregiously false” claims about their High Court defeat on single-sex spaces. In a blistering attack, Jolyon’s learned friends say the GLP is repeatedly “selling hope” to its gullible supporters over trans rights, aggressively fundraising for court fights it inevitably loses. Don’t say Guido didn’t warn you…
The letter makes specific reference to Jolyon’s defeat in the High Court last week, which the GLP subsequently misrepresented by claiming “the High Court makes clear that service providers are not obliged to exclude trans people from gendered spaces and services”. The lawyers shot this down in no uncertain terms…
“Nowhere in his judgment did Swift J conclude that ‘service providers are not obliged to exclude trans people from gendered spaces and services’. The phrase ‘gendered spaces’ is absent from the judgment and has no legal meaning… We are aware of no other organisation that has ever published such egregiously false material about the judgment in a case that it has lost.”
Brutal. Guido has said for years that Jolyon tries to use the courts as a political vehicle. If he wants to stand for Parliament, he should. He’s familiar with how it feels to lose by now anyway. Even some of his former supporters have had enough: “Maugham always pretends he’s had some sort of win even when he has unambiguously and comprehensively lost. He did the same with his Brexit cases. I’m fed up of this turd polisher claiming he does so much for us.” From learned friend to ‘turd polisher’ – life comes at you fast…
Starmer was read out a list of his 13 U-turns on BBC Radio 2, to which he responded:
“Well, I am a common sense merchant.”