

Cheerio, Paul Blomfield.Īnyway, the election is in 2024. Yeah fuck yeah Keir Starmer and all that. “A Labour government will embolden Sheffield to achieve its true potential and I believe I am the right person to build on Paul Blomfield’s tireless work for this city,” she said. “This next challenge is the most important of my life and I need your help.” Izzard added that Sheffield was “being held back” after 12 years of the Conservatives in power. “When I’m faced with a challenge, I work my hardest to deliver,” she wrote. You won't understand them unless you are a subject of the King, probably: In a message on her campaign website, Izzard wrote that she wanted to “support the city that has supported me” as well as “take the fight to the Tories and get Keir Starmer into No 10”. Here are some politics words from Izzard. This quote about shitty statements from anti-trans groups amused us: “They’ll all be like ‘would you share a changing room with Eddie Izzard’, and most people will answer ‘do you think she’d sign an autograph if I asked nicely?'” What an amazing opportunity for Sheffield.\u201d - Russell Crowe Crowe)Īs Pink News in the UK reports, a lot of the reactions are overwhelming kindness and people telling the haters to take a fucking seat. Some of the replies, on the other hand, are from Russell Crowe. Those tweets are pretty easy to tell apart from the TERFs and the rightwing haters and the rightwing hater TERFs.

Some of the Twitter posts are garbage, and also there's a LOT of British politics in there, which is fair enough, considering how we are talking about British politics. "Oh yes, and I happen to be trans!" That's after two solid minutes of explaining why she believes she's the best person to be the new Labour MP for Sheffield.Īny of you fuckin' squares out there have a problem with that?

oh yeah, she's trans! In fact that's how she ends the announcement video above. Live it well."Īnd really, she has! She's one of the most kickass standup comedians on earth, she speaks a thousand languages, she runs marathons, and. To get this out of the way, if you did not hear the news last year, Izzard, who had always cross-dressed and/or been gender-fluid in some form or another for all her public life, officially came out as trans, said she was using "she/her" pronouns, and said she wanted “to be based in girl mode from now on." She added, "One life. For Labour.\u201d - Eddie Izzard for Sheffield Central Izzard for Sheffield Central) \n\nPlease join me, in taking on this great challenge.\n\n\nFor Sheffield. I\u2019m standing to be the next Labour MP for Sheffield Central to support the city that has supported me. \u201cLabour ideals of fairness and equality have been at the core of my life.
