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A lot of these women on the left talk for working class women all the time but not to them.

I just think that working class women and vulnerable women are not a prop to make an argument

against people you don't like very much.

I think they are people who consider most centrally in most everything we do.

We get women who are survivors of rape, who then can't access violence against women

or rape crisis centres because they can't be sure that it's staffed by women.

So if those women are the ones that I am holding central to everything that I do then

I think that what I'm doing is not particularly important.

Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill.

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