A new referendum has exposed the woke cause. Labour should tremble
by Tim Stanley, Telegraph:
Few thought Ireland would reject its elites’ attempt to change the constitution. It could be a prophetic result.
Angela Eagle MP has given a depressing glimpse into life under a Labour government, tweeting a wish list of pro-trans laws designed to complete a sexual revolution that, confusingly, appears to be permanent. Conversion therapy ban, modernised gender recognition, a LGBT envoy to spread the gospel of queer theory to the backwards bits of the empire. Well, if Keir Starmer is signed-up to Angela’s agenda, he might want to think again. Elites in Ireland have just discovered there is a limit to how woke a nation is willing to go…
Last week, Eire held a referendum to “modernise” its constitution on two points: to include families not based on marriage and to rewrite references to a “mother’s duties in the home”. In short, to expunge what Taoiseach Leo Varadkar called “sexist” language. Every party campaigned for a Yes-Yes vote – bar a curious Left-wing pro-life group called Aontu – and some of my conservative friends sat it out. They’ve been burnt by losing referendums on gay marriage in 2015 and abortion in 2018 – both times badly – and this looked like another easy win for “modern Ireland”.
On the day, everyone was surprised. The country voted “no” to the families language by 68 per cent; “no” to redefining the role of women by a staggering 74 per cent. The media reacted as if Ireland had given douze points to Gilead; the problem, suggested supporters, was not the reform itself but the government’s failure to sell it. Nevertheless with a majority this big, we can infer that thousands of single mothers, carers and feminists voted against amendments that the elite told them were in their sectional interests. Why?
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Read also: Irish voters, I salute you by Laura Perrins, TCW
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