Yvette Cooper Quotes

When comedian Kate Smurthwaite appeared on the Today program to back up Yvette Cooper's campaign, she urged that the police set up a special squad to monitor Twitter and punish sexist trolls accordingly. But when feminists demand that the police arrest and even imprison trolls to create an online safe space for women, it is they who become the authoritarian silencers of others. They are legitimizing, in effect, 'thought crime'.

WE’RE MARCHING BECAUSE THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD SAYS IT’S OK TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN . . . AND WE SAY NO WAY.” YVETTE COOPER, LABOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

That is the whole history of politics. You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.

And I found shocking evidence that the backlash against women who speak out isn’t new. But nor, thankfully, is the bravery of strong women who persist and overcome.